Friday, April 27, 2001
I found an article on ALA entitled "Forgiving Browsers considered Harmful." Go to A List Apart for the full story.
Current browsers are very forgiving; they quietly correct or gloss over many common HTML errors. This makes it easy for people to experience the joy of creating their own web pages with a minimum of frustration — if a page displays correctly, then it's "right."
Unfortunately, by hiding the need for structure that the web will require as it moves towards XHTML and XML, these forgiving browsers have helped create a world of structural HTML illiterates. As long as browsers continue to parse and display HTML that isn't well-formed or valid, we will never learn the right ways, and we will never get to a structural web.
J. David Eisenberg
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Eric Costello (glish) has put together a css resource for using <div> tags instead of <table> tags. It's well worth the read; I found this right after I finished putting this site into <div> tags, but I learned so much that I reworked them. Also pay attention to the @import technique used to include an external style sheet. Zeldman recommends using this because it is not recognized by Netscape 4. Therefore, you can make your xhtml/css valid to specs without worrying about how Netscape will mess it up.
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Joshua Davis of praystation is releasing a book of his flash scripts entitled Flash to the Core. On a similar note, Colin Moock's ActionScript: The Definative Guide is due out on May 15th from O'Reilly.
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
xPlane is a "visual explanation" company. They have some great illustration style and I love their concise yet informative writing style. Plus they have great design links section called xBlog.
Today I signed up for Blogger. Pretty cool stuff. I was gonna write my own weblog with PHP and MySQL but I decided I didn't know enough about SQL, yet... Anyway, why re-invent the wheel, right?
