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It's Blue Beanie Day on the Web and we've all joined the fray by donning our indigo toques and updating our avatars. But what does it all mean? Advocacy without action is meaningless. The purpose of Blue Beanie Day is to raise awareness and adoption of Web Standards . We all updated our Twitter avatars and placed the azul cap on our Websites to show support, but how many of... continue »
There is a lot of commotion over the state of markup specifications these days. Many strong opinions have been voiced, and objected to vehemently. The debate has raged for years and shows no signs of slowing. You may come away from the banter asking “which is the one to rule them all?”, or perhaps your opinion is already solid. You want to use XHTML 1.1? Go for it. HTML 4.01... continue »
Jeff Croft started a fire. A fire that needed to be set. I've watched luminaries within the Web community jump on and off the standards soapbox. There is so much fragmentation on this topic, no wonder the proposed finalization date for HTML 5 is 13 years away . I think the value of the firestorm that came from all of this is it brings attention to the fact that somewhere,... continue »
PHP and Smarty Search Bookmarklets Do you ever want a quick way to search PHP or Smarty Documentation for a function? Here it is! Just drag this link to your browsers bookmarks (or links) toolbar and voila! Search PHP.net Search Smarty Docs Modifiers to Make Life Easier These simple Smarty modifiers have made life easier for me. The use them just save the... continue »
Mailtos are a convenient way to let your audience offer feedback on your Web site or to arrange other contact information. But you can do a lot more with a mailto than just automatically generate an e-mail message. Super ninja mailtos can automatically CC and BCC people, or even fill in the subject line. You could go read the RFC to learn how, or you could just keep reading for the quick and... continue »