Archive for the 'XHTML' Category


Standard Typeface – Accessible Design

the Browser-safe Fonts Sidebar Panel Before adding this quick-reference bookmark to your browser, you can preview the contents of the font-family cheat sheet in a new window. NOTE: If you’re looking for just the right font for your web site, use the custom text tool at the bottom of the cheat sheet panel. It’s simple [...]

PPK on JavaScript – QuirksMode Guru Comes into His Own With New Book

Longtime javascript guru, and publisher of http://www.quirksmode.org/ , Peter-Paul Koch has just released his first book, PPK on JavaScript 1st edition, New Riders, 2006. ISBN 0321423305. PPK asks that those of you who support him, visit your local bookstore and ask for the book by name– remember to mention New Riders, and taking the ISBN [...]

Betcha Didn’t Know… W3C HTML Spec: 17.6.1

the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification: Forms in HTML documents 17.6.1 Pre-selected options Having not known this little bit of HTML correctness before stumbling upon it while referencing something else this evening, I would like to share it so that you may benefit from the knowledge (or I may recall on a later date). Please note [...]

XHTML 2.0 – the Modular Web and XForm’s

While roaming with a gnome, I found this interesting little mention of XHTML 2.0 from one of my favorite new web aggregate resources, Answers.com. See for yourself what the rumors suggest we might see in XHTML 2.0

need to increase the height of a layout column <div> ?

For about a year now, the stylistic quality of my own original html compositions has been handled by the incredibly versatile stylistic design, and layout options afforded by Cascading Stylesheets (though it seems much longer than that!). A proponent of universally accessible design, and advocate of web standards, valid, logically structured XHTML and CSS code, [...]