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Figure microformats by Matthias Willerich
An image, a caption and the image credit. That can’t be hard to get the associations right, can it? Delve into the discussion about markup, semantics and microformats of a seemingly simple issue.
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Templates from Babel? by Pascal Opitz
In this article Pascal Opitz discusses the current way of rendering templates used in most MVC style rapid development frameworks.
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CSS is Worthless by Mike Stenhouse
Almost all of the benefits people normally attribute to CSS are actually down to the underlying (X)HTML. The better your markup, the better sense machines will be able to make of it – that includes both screenreaders and search engine spiders.
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Comments on Comments by Pascal Opitz
The right kind of comments to speed up the development process and enable a couple of interesting possibilities to generate documentations automatically. This article tries to reflect on the pros and cons of comments and to show some interesting possibilities for automatic comment parsing.
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Playing Nice with the Other CSS Kids by Mike Stenhouse
Simon Willison recently posted to css-d asking for peoples’ thoughts on writing maintainable CSS and that got me thinking… Over the years I’ve had the priviledge of working on some very large web standards projects in small teams of other CSS/XHTML developers, but I’ve also spent a lot of time building little sites on my own for smaller clients. Maintenance on a small project involves being able to understand your own code when you come back to it months later. On larger projects it means your team mates being able to understand and edit your code as quickly and efficiently as possible at any point in the future. It’s a far more complicated objective.
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Clean URLs for a better search engine ranking by Pascal Opitz
Search engines are often key to the successful promotion and running of your website. Read more on how clean URLs can influence your ranking and how clean URLs can be achieved for dynamic applications.
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A to Z(ee) with P3P by Matthias Willerich
When you build websites that rely on cookies and they are expected to work with privacy settings other than default, you’ll have to deal with P3P. Read on to find out about the cornerstones of the Platform for Privacy Preferences, and get your hands dirty with an example guiding you from empty hands to a complete basic implementation.
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Processing the output buffer with XSLT by Pascal Opitz
This article shows an example of a technique mentioned in one of our recent articles. It uses the PHP output buffer in combination with XML as intermediate application layer. Ideally you should familiarize yourself with this concept first.
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Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps by Mike Stenhouse
With AJAX-based applications still in their infancy there has been a tendency to disgard basic web behaviour in favour of slick functionality. In this article I am trying to rescue two of those ‘lost’ behaviours – bookmarking and the back button, using Javascript.
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Database-driven tree structures with XML and XSLT by Pascal Opitz
This article deals with the display of tree-structures that are driven by a database. Make your application more robust and reliable by separating it into layers and save some SQL-statements.
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MVC in smaller web applications by Matthias Willerich
Is it worth following this popular programming pattern when working with small projects?
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XML as intermediate application layer by Pascal Opitz
Why not keeping the application logic just working with XML and benefit from robust toolkits and neat techniques rather than changing HTML-markup in PHP-code?
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A CSS Framework by Mike Stenhouse
If you’ve been creating sites with CSS for a while you may be getting frustrated with having to recreate and retest basic layouts on a regular basis. In this article I’m trying to illustrate a simple way of skipping the tedious startup on your average project, letting you get to the interesting stuff as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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UTF-8: Documents with a lot of character by Pascal Opitz
Did you ever built a webpage in Homesite and then you didn’t encode the html-entities? Then, probably when the client has a look on it, all the german Umlaut characters look awkward on a mac? And did you figure out why? It’s because of the charsets and the encoding of the characters in the saved file!
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Modular CSS by Mike Stenhouse
This isn’t a new idea but looking at people’s code it doesn’t seem to be a particularly widely used practice: modular CSS. That’s a poncy name for the very simple idea of grouping related styles into separate stylesheets. The same set of tasks turn up on project after project and a little careful thought can save hours of foundation work, allowing you to get on with the serious business of turning a flat design into a web page far more quickly.
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Dynamic tables with XSLT by Pascal Opitz
How to use the powerful dynamic features of XSLT for sorting and displaying table-data.
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XSL: the other way of styling up content by Pascal Opitz
Two of the best known acronyms around right now are XML and XSL, often being mentioned as “the way to go” or some abstract technique that stands for a new direction within the whole web.
Rather than dealing with the languages itself in detail I’ll try to give a pragmatic approach and to show basic examples how to transform data into browser-ready HTML. -
Find your node: Advanced XPATH commands by Pascal Opitz
All that XSLT does is applying code-templates on XML-nodes. In order to do this you need to find the right node. XPATH offers you an advanced toolkit to do that within an XSL-file.
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DOM scripting or how to keep the code clean by Pascal Opitz
In this tutorial I want to show up the differences between DOM-Scripting and the “traditional” JavaScript technique using event-handlers embedded into the HTML-code.
I’ll show a way to have accessible popups, and by showing how to do those, I’ll explain the propper use of DOM-scripting.
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