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XHTML is not HTML and should be served accordingly

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Here’s another great link from Neil Crosby (I swear that sounds like the name of a crooner).

http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/scripting/mimetypes

And here are just a couple related links of interest.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

Internet Explorer prefers its own 404s

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Here’s a nifty tip, although I’m not sure of its validity.

http://www.plinko.net/404/howto.asp?article=3

Do not imitate ROWSPAN and COLSPAN, recreate them

Monday, January 19th, 2009

As abrasive as he can sometimes be, Jukka Korpela is a very bright and talented web standards aficionado.

http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/85534

I must say I don’t even fully grasp how he worded that response, but I believe I get the message.

Designing layouts with tables can easily be modified for a clean semantic standards-based web.

Structural tables don’t need to rely on an alternative CSS equivalent when those attributes are perfectly suited for laying out a structured (tabular) document.

Or something like that…