The Standards Police will get you!

Oh the irony – it appears that the Standards Police have caught up with me. Three words for you, Charl: validation isn’t everything. Considering three of my websites were involved in your local standard-compliancy study (this one, the V&A Waterfront and the Cape Town BIG 6), I feel I should say … view full post

Teamscience is live

We launched the Teamscience website today, finally, almost a year after going public with just an online business card. XHTML and CSS layouts all the way, except for where tables are superior of course. Doesn’t quite validate yet, thanks to flash and the PHP e-mail obfuscation function I use, … view full post

Netscape DevEdge redesign using XHTML/CSS

MozillaZine reports that the Netscape DevEdge team undertook a massive redesign in a relatively short timeframe to show how advanced CSS and XML can help web developers worldwide in their quest to create cross-browser sites based on … view full post

W3C MarkUp Validation Service

A new version of the W3C MarkUp Validation Service is now available for testing. Karl Dubost, W3C Conformance Manager, writes:

This is a public beta test of the new version before it is released in production. This implies that the code is _not_ ready for use in a production environment.There is no fixed schedule for the final

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HTML to XHTML to HTML

Just over a week ago I converted my site from HTML to strict XHTML. I have come to the conclusion that the world is not yet ready for XHTML, or maybe it’s just IE6 – but either way, it wasn’t giving me any benefits so I am changing back.

What annoyed me the most is that IE6 … view full post

XHTML problems

I think I just found a bug in Mozilla using tabbed browsing. My div popups, for example clicking on “add something” above, are loaded using the JavaScript onClick event, while the a href on the link is javascript:void(0) . Clicking on this link sets the title of the tab to “(Untitled)” which to me really shouldn’t be happening.

Still having problems … view full post

I have moved over to XHTML

So far so good, except for IE6 users. It appears as though some parts of my style sheets aren’t loading. :| damnit.