So yesterday, Jeremy asked:
Wondering if accents are valid in class names (so I can mark up some text as being of the class “cliché”)
It’s a damned good question. And you have to consider: character encodings; CSS; HTML; XHTML; JavaScript; HTTP. Needless to say, it’s more complicated than it looks at first.
My first thought [...]
Aristotle points out a post from Anne van Kesteren about draconian error handling. FWIW, I agree with Aristotle. But both of them are really missing the point.
The simple fact of the matter is that the defaults in all of our tools are wrong. Yup, you heard right.
When you’re working with some server-side [...]
One of the useful things about blockquotes is that you can specify where you’re quoting by adding a cite attribute. But current browsers don’t offer you an interface to use this information. Sounds like a job for greasemonkey! So I wrote cite.user.js to get around it.
Unfortunately, I should have looked around first—I might [...]