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Claiming standards, an act of hubris

Joel Spolsky does it again:
“A mortal web designer who attaches a DOCTYPE tag to their web page saying, “this is standard HTML,” is committing an act of hubris.” 
Read his blog here. 

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Client programming

What is client and interface programming? Many managers and old-school-hardcore-developers will say that person A is great because he has done some really stunning graphical sketches/and or sites. Other would say that person B is the best because she knows all the differences in the ECMAScript standard in comparison with the different client versions. A [...]

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lang:en - Are you blogging in multiple languages?

Today I was told that there might be some kind of ’standard’ to tag entries with different tags depending on the choosen language for the post. The tag should be lang: followed by the two character ISO language code. For example lang:en. Searching forlang:en gives 360.000 hits. But I can’t find any defined or even [...]

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Microformats, what’s the buzz about?

Today Yahoo! Local announced that they are implementing full support for the hCalendar, hCard and hRevies [tag]microformat[/tag]s.
- Microformat?, you ask.
- Semantic web!, someone replies
And once again no knowledge was shared
I will try to give a brief explanation about what it is:
Let’s start by quoting microformats wiki:
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a [...]

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Can’t the AJAX portals collaborate on a widget standard?

A couple of weeks ago I asked a question in the Google Homepage Api group if the Google Homepage Framework can be bought or if the source is available somewhere. The reason for this is that when I read the Google Homepage API specs I find the framework to be rather well documented and some [...]

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Syntax of the Content-Type Header Field

During an incident this morning I got a bit curious about how the Content-Type and the Cache-Control parameters in the HTTP-header is allowed to be formatted. We might have found that there’s a space between the colon and the type/subtype which according to the RFC2045 document there should be no space between the ‘:’ and [...]