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Microformats are an unofficial solution to creating small, simple, standardized solutions based on existing practices. The philosophy seems to be paying off, as rel-nofollow is supported not only by many CMS applications but also google, hcard is supported in...

As of now there are two truly viable options for running Windows XP on the new Intel Mac computers. The first is to dual boot via Boot Camp offered by Apple, the second is a third party virtualization progam called Parallels Desktop.This developer brief explo...

Creating a form is arguably the most annoying pure (x)HTML task. This article provides resources for standards based accessibility then looks into some research into the less quantitative sides of formdom.Meeting Accessibility StandardsFor the basic nuts and...

Favelets, or bookmarklets, are a quick and easy way to add functionality to your browsing experience. Favelets (as I will refer to them from here on) are bookmarks (i.e. favorites) for your browsers, but instead of storing a web or ftp address as a URL they st...

A short while ago I was overjoyed to rediscover an article that I lost track of long ago. I read a book endorsing the classic ALA Keyword Approach, but figured I’d follow up on the research a bit further, as I had an inkling that using a % in the body and em...

Many popular Content Management Systems (CMS) run in a php/mysql environment. Their dynamic nature makes traditional develop on workstation and upload less useful, and editing live on the server is not always desirable. Luckily there are straightforward ways...

Installation of Ant on OS X is a solid walkthrough. It not only walks you through the Unix commands to install Ant and set up a symbolic link to it but also explains what they do.

Browsers often have different ways of rendering the same element. For example we expect lists to be left-indented. Firefox does this by applying a left padding of 40 pixels to an unordered list (<ul>). Either Opera or Internet Explorer acheives the sam...

With the growth of “switchers” now that intel macs have been out, a lot of people are curious about being able to use their windows licenses for mac products. While you cannot use the same license code for the same product on multiple platforms (e.g. Photosho...