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More WaSP Sucks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After the initial fairly unpleasant comments attached to a weblog I wrote earlier, basically blasting WSP (Web Standards Organization, at http://www.webstandards.org), I’ve had several thoughtful responses from readers leading me to want to respond in kind. To be honest, I never was that interested in WSP or its initial efforts. I support […]

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WaSP Sucks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Updated: 12/19/01 The really great thing about weblogging is you can set your own rules. When I wrote an article for O’Reilly about The Tyranny of Standards I had to accept the comments of the readers without being able to comment in return — O’Reilly would really prefer its authors to NOT get […]

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X-Objects: Clipping

Copy found at Wayback Machine archive. Clipping in the earlier releases of Mozilla and with Navigator 6.0 followed the CSS 2.0 release specification. Clipping boundaries are set at “0” for all four sides of the rectangle containing the content — to clip, you would offset the values, using positive numbers only. This differed from the […]

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X-Objects: HTML Replacement

Copy found at Wayback Machine Archive. HTML Replacement is functionality to replace the contents of an HTML tag. The contents could be the element’s data or could consist of one or more embedded HTML elements. Internet Explorer has four proprietary methods to replace the contents of an HTML tag: innerHTML to replace the contents with new HTML […]

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X-Objects: Creating the new X-Objects

Copy found on Wayback Machine. The original cross-browser objects encapsulated browser-specific DHTML implementation behind a set of exposed interfaces, making it easier to change the implementation if needed, and easier to create and maintain my DHTML pages. When a new browser version (or browser) releases, I can make changes to handle the new implementation details […]