“The Missing <link> in the World Wide Web suggests that the <link%gt; element is possibly the most underused and underachieving element available to us today. Learn about this mystery element and how to use it effectively….” [full article at Digital Media Minute]
“The Missing <link> in the World Wide Web suggests that the <link%gt; element is possibly the most underused and underachieving element available to us today. Learn about this mystery element and how to use it effectively….” [full article at Digital Media Minute]
Done with The “Mondrian Machine” at ptank.com [via Simplephotography] [Beates News]
One of JavaScript’s greatest strengths is the generation of HTML code on the fly. One of the hurdles to overcome when generating HTML is to ensure that any images referenced using tags are properly loaded. By Guyon Roche. 0219 [full article at WebReference]
I have already written something about XML versus XHTML, to explain the difference between the two. Now, I would like to discuss and explain what the reasons are to choose XHTML over HTML, even if you can’t send it as application/xhtml+xml. This is related to the DTD, I “discussed” yesterday.
On the current web, XHTML doesn’t have that many advantages over HTML. Some people think that it hasn’t got any advantage over HTML, ‘cause the correct content-type for XHTML, application/xhtml+xml, isn’t supported by Internet Explorer (how many times I have written that sentence…). Other browsers, like Mozilla and Opera (includes scripting from 7.5), do support it (Safari as well, I believe). There are ways to send XHTML with the correct MIME type to “good” browsers and text/html to “bad” browsers (like IE), but those methods are rarely used (I just see that Cinnamon is added to the list, great work!).
I think we can state that is the biggest “failure” of XHTML and a point of criticism. A good point (they exist) is the Document Type Definition of XHTML. Where HTML allows you to do:
XHTML is stricter (you have to close the list-item-open tag). A HTML document that looks like the example above has to be “re-mark-upped” by the browser so that the browser can have a normal DOM for JavaScript and CSS. A good example of that is that you may omit both start and end tag of the BODY element, but the CSS type selector body still applies. To tell you the truth, the same parser applies to XHTML documents send as text/html, so it doesn’t really matter that much (now). In the future, however, you can have (I you start writing now) completely valid XHTML documents (or well-formed) and send them as application/xhtml+xml so browsers will render your pages faster (not an extra parser, they expect your document to be valid, et cetera). What I’m trying to say (write*) is that XHTML is more forward compatible.
Did I miss a point? In short: The XHTML DTD is better to work with, ‘cause it is stricter than the HTML one.
In einem Webshop sollen die Kunden vor allem einkaufen. So einfach wie möglich soll das sein. Doch gar nicht selten macht ausgerechnet das Design einen Strich durch die Rechnung. [Dr. Web Magazin]
Teil eines alten Eintrages von theflow, aber in meinen Augen eine gute These für Usability:
Windows-Syndrom:
Was ich damit meine ist diese dauernde Aktion erfolgreich ausgeführt, klicken Sie OK oder OK. Ich bin Fan der Unix-Philosophie: Rule of Silence: When a program has nothing surprising to say, it should say nothing. Oder wenigstens eingebettet in die nächste Seite.
Quirksmode.com has a nice tutorial that shows you how to create nice looking forms without using tables…. [Digital Media Minute]
“Laut Forbes (nur für Abonnenten) ist Apple eine der 20 Technologiefirmen, auf die Investoren achten sollten: »The only clear winner in this new world is Apple, which has leveraged its computer platform to make it easy and fashionable for consumers to get with the digital-music age. Apple today sells almost as many…”
[Industrial Technology & Witchcraft]
“Ein Icon kann die Funktion eines Schalters oder Knopfes verdeutlichen. Keine leichte Aufgabe bei nur begrenzt zur Verfügung stehendem Platz. Neben zeichnerischem Geschick entscheidet vor allem die Idee darüber, ob ein Icon seinen Zweck erfüllt. “
[full article at Dr. Web Magazin]