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Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

Category Archives: Programming

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XHTML 2 Woes

Well, it seems that a few folks are get­ting a lit­tle riled by the pro­posed XHTML 2 spec. To gain a lit­tle insight (and some col­or­ful phras­ing), read Seman­tic obso­les­cence [dive into mark], and XHTML 2 and all that [zeld­man]. Mark Pil­grim also has a ton of links and ter­rific descrip­tions of some of the […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Tuesday, January 14th, 2003.

MT Text Formatting

Ben and Mena have done it again (or rather, will be doing it again…): Six Log: Sim­ple and Pow­er­ful Text For­mat­ting. In the “good news to start the year” cat­e­gory, the forth­com­ing Text For­mat­ting options to be added to Mov­able­Type in the near future will add a great deal of scope and usabil­ity to MT. […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Friday, January 3rd, 2003.

Zeldman’s CSS Rollovers

OK, now before you go flam­ing me about what I’m about to say, just take a few deep breaths and stay calm: Zeldman’s CSS Rollovers are not a good thing. Now, this is just my opin­ion, and as such it may be wrong, or it may sim­ply change at some point in the future — but enough […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Thursday, December 5th, 2002.

W3C Validator Fixed!

Well now, that was a fast turn-around! It appears that some­one was check­ing their email at the W3C and the glitch I expe­ri­enced was fixed pronto! That’s close to a 10 minute response time, on Thanks­giv­ing no less! :-) Good Job!

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Thursday, November 28th, 2002.

W3C Validator Broken

The recent improve­ments to the W3C Val­ida­tor have bro­ken the val­ida­tor. Two days ago, this site val­i­dated with­out prob­lems, and now the val­ida­tor seems to think that I’m miss­ing a clos­ing </h3> tag, when it’s there in plain sight, even in the source out­put of the val­ida­tor! This isn’t the only prob­lem either: Just validate […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Thursday, November 28th, 2002.

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