Were switching to XML a requirement for reaping compelling benefits, the public would indubitably have moved. So would the majority browser engine. So if the majority browser engine did support XML, this presumably brings us to the question of what would those compelling benefits to the public be? Aristo...

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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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Word 2007 will support ‘blogging’. What this means in the real world is that it is an Atom Publishing Protocol client. Joe Friend’s latest post on the topic (Word Blog HTML Quality...

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In 2002 Mark Pilgrim wrote Syndication is not publication. In that piece he voices a concern that I’ve had before about microformats:

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XHTML – Why? basically says the only reason is so that HTML becomes valid XML. I understand, of course, that this is an old argument, but in the intervening years all I’ve seen is that people have realised they can now use XPath...

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Simon writes about the legion of non-HTML text markup languages and introduces his own (we have enough. please stop now. Maybe writing your own markup language is the new “writing your own wiki“, which was the new “writing your own aggregator” ?) Anyway, he points out that anyone entering italic*italic-bo...

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I just stumbled across htmldog.com – A Good Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS which covers a lot of ground and breaks up its tutorials into sections (beginner, intermediate and advanced) and has other good articles such as Bad Tags for those which give problems or are best avoided altogethe...

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A summary: Zeldman has redesigned his website, and it looks absolutely beautiful. Is this finally an end to the proliferation of white-only websites (I have an excuse – I have no design talent)? A few days behind, but still, XHTML 2.0 considered hopeful. It’ll be so nice to see man...

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Get WYSIWYG XHTML editing in Mozilla with Mozile. No end-user installs, just some javascript and a contentEditable="true" attribute on the node you want to be able to edit. This is just a quick and dirty version but: If you’re browsing in IE, the contents of this box will...

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Okay, I ‘fess up. I don’t get it. Why should I bother using xhtml:body when I could just as well be using content:encoded ? What’s the inherent benefit? I don’t buy the bandwidth cost answer, either. There’s a nice short overview which probably summarises all the main points, and back whe...

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