Tiffany B. Brown

A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff.

Posts in: (x)HTML

Links for 2007-04-11
Is It Better to Buy or Rent? – Probably the best online calculator I have seen on the subject. (New York Times; Log in required.) HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web What’s new with Sitemaps.org? (Related: Sitemaps.org) JSLT javascript-based XSLT alternative (Via Ajaxian) Capabilities vs. Quirks: a look at browser sniffing – Or ‘Why navigator.userAgent isn’t 100% [...] [11 Apr 2007]
Leveraging HTML and JavaScript in Apollo Applications
A presentation by Mike Chambers of Adobe about the company’s Apollo project. [4 Apr 2007]
JavaScript from HTML loaded into Flash
An answer to the question that you may or may not have asked: Yes it is possible to invoke a JavaScript function from HTML content that has been loaded into Flash. You can read the rest of the post, or jump straight to the example (and maybe come back to the post afterwards). Let’s say you [...] [5 Feb 2007]
San Francisco: @media 2007 - America
The @media conference has grown from being a U. K. thing to a world-wide thing. This year, they’re doing three sessions in San Francisco, Hong Kong and in the conference’s hometown of London. The S. F. conference will include presentations by Tantek Çelik, Dan Cederholm, Jesse James Garrett, Molly Holzschlag, and Cameron Moll (check out the [...] [18 Jan 2007]
Aptana IDE: Is it the text editor you’ve been looking for?
UPDATE 2: Aptana, beta build 9 includes support for PHP. UPDATE: Aptana has released a beta version that has Ruby on Rails support I first heard of Aptana in the comment thread of a Lifehacker post (about free CSS editors). I’ve been using it on and off for the last few months, both at home and [...] [17 Jan 2007]
Getting rid of spaces between vertically-stacked images
So you’ve got an HTML page (or HTML e-mail) with vertically-stacked images. And you’ve noticed a little problem: Each image is followed by a line of blank white space. So you check your code. You remove all of the line breaks and spaces from around your img tag. Then you refresh your browser window. And guess [...] [16 Jan 2007]