Tag Archives: html

Which whitespace was that again?

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

We recently saw this at $WORK. It appears corrupted in Internet Explorer only. Firefox and Safari show it normally. After much exploration in the debugger, we eventually found it was caused by using the innerText property in internet explorer. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Comments Off

To XHTML or not to XHTML?

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

Today, we had a conversation about HTML 4 vs XHTML 1.0. For me, the matter was neatly settled they very first time I saw an XML system produce XHTML like this: <p>An article with an <em/> empty emphasis tag.</p> Perfectly … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 6 Comments

Clichés are hard

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Dominic Mitchell

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; … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

The Wrong Defaults

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 5 Comments

Citation Sources

Posted on March 20, 2005 by Dominic Mitchell

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 1 Comment