This is from the web-based RSS reader I use, which apparently does not always escape content quite right. Gotta love that <marquee> tag! With thanks to

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After playing with some web publishing tools in March, I spent a few hours in April teaching my 11-year-old daughter some HTML. She loved the idea of being able to publish her own words on the internet, and was delighted by the concept of nekoweb, not least because s...

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You can view an HTML version of my blogroll here, and also download the OPML from that page. Some of the links are probably dead, but they don't show up in my feed reader so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Anyone care to explain why the video embedded in my last post destroys my weblog formatting? Or rather, why WordPress’ parsing of the HTML seems to have gone on an insane rampage? Let me guess, there’s a plugin for that, right?

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Individual developers don’t care (or at least, understand the practic...

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It’s funny to watch this Sending XHTML as text/html not-considerd-harmful after all (which is wrong, of course) post get a load of comments almost a year later, but the best bit is saved until the comments, where the author of the article, Brad, responds to a...

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Ryan King says: See, one of the problems with XML-on-the-web are the dialects. See Tantek’s Tower of Babel Problem for more explanation. I know I might be sounding a bit ideal...

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I’ve just applied for my European Health Insurance Card (no more E-111s!), and thought “gosh, isn’t this font small? and isn’t the menu highlight poorly written? that’s some bad CSS there I reckon – let’s take a look at the source”. So I did. Five minutes later, I came around. At various points in the source, there are four HTML Doctypes declared, each one followed by openi...

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In 2003 I wrote some really bad JavaScript to convert an OPML document into an HTML list. Everything old is new again.

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Bug 1212662: Don’t unescape html entities in ‘description’ or ‘content’ Currently, when MagpieRSS (otherwise marvellous general-purpose feed parser) encounters escaped content, it unescapes it, thus turning hard fought-for “...

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