Ted Tschopp's Blog

Retrofit your Web pages for wireless compatibility

A wonderful article is up over at IBM about how to use XHTML and CSS to make your webpages viewable in both a regular browser and a handheld browser.

I'm blogging this to remeber it for later reading.

Flock Tryout

Flock is a free, open source web browser.What's the idea behind Flock?We believe that it should be easy for everyone to contribute to and participate on the web. To that end, we've started with integrating tools that make it easier to blog, publish your photos and share and discover things that are interesting to you.Who should use it?Flock is currently available only as a developer preview. This means that you can try it out but that it's not quite ready to become your everyday browser.Expect a more stable, public beta by the end of the year. If you want to see what we're working on for that release, take a look at our public beta roadmap.

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Reserved Worlds in XHTML for IE only

Here is an interesting article about the fact that the word "tag" is a reserved world in Internet Explorer for classes. Interesting.

Here’s a fascinating little tidbit: on some users’ machines, attempts to print out Joe Clark’s ALA article “Facts and Opinions About PDF Accessibility” would crash Internet Explorer. The error message mentioned a script error in line 1401: “Object doesn’t support this property or method”. Funny thing: we weren’t doing any scripting. The error was actually occurring shdoclc.dll/preview.dlg, which is of course a piece of the operating system.

Jason did some sleuthing and traced the crash to this line of markup:

<h2 id="tags">Tags and structure</h2>

Honestly, that was it. So Jeffrey renamed the ID to read:

<h2 id="structure">Tags and structure</h2>

So far as we know, no more crashing in Explorer.

Ain’t browsers a slice?

(And yes, we’re aware of the clamor for a print style sheet. More on this later.)

Update: Marten Veldthuis from Strongpsace points out that 37signals ran into a very similar problem in Backpack. Details can be found in Jamis Buck’s June 3rd post ie-is-teh-3v1l. Spread the word: “tags” is effectively a reserved keyword, even though no such concept exists in (X)HTML. Use it at your (users’) peril.

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More Testing

More testing by me.  I hope this works… N

Web => Blogs => Real Life Interesting... Very interesting...

I love the idea of Net stuff getting mapped to real world places.  Must keep looking... Must keep looking

Fandom and Hollywood...

An interesting article about fandom in Hollywood.

 

Syndication Myths, Part I and II

Here are a couple articles regarding RSS syndication.

http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000573.html

http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000576.html

Getting the hang of it

I think I'm starting to get the hang of all this blogging. I will continue to play with all this and see how it goes. I kinda wish there was a desktop application that I could use to go along with all this, but perhaps that will come out in later versions.

In any event. I'll continue to play with this until it goes live.