Shawn Medero

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Monthly Archives: October 2009

HTML5’s Section Element? Try HTML 1.0

I was reading through an archive email thread with the subject of “still no DTD, huh?”. It is mostly Dan Connolly and Tim Berners-Lee discussing dtds and some bugs in the NeXT editor that generated HTML, including everyone’s favorite “quoted attribute values.” People have long blamed Internet Explorer for allowing such loose HTML syntax, but […]

Friday, October 9th 2009

This Spartan Life needs a little help from the community. One of my favorites was their episode done in conjunction with PRI’s Studio 360:

Google Proposes Method of Crawling AJAX-Delivered Content

I’m catching up on my feeds in Google Reader, when I notice this piece from Google’s Webmaster blog titled “A proposal for making AJAX crawlable”. First, let’s come to understanding about how fragment identifiers are currently being used on the web, prepared for the W3C Tag by Google’s T.V. Raman. Now back to the Google Webmaster blog proposal: […]

WebKit Ecosystem In 2009

In “There is no WebKit on Mobile”, Peter-Paul Koch does the grunt work to prove what I’ve been telling people for the last year: WebKit, as much as I love it, is a mess as a “platform”. The problem is particularly acute on mobile devices because very few of them provide over-the-air updates for their […]

Thursday, October 8th 2009

A brief look at “companies” and their logos used in the Lego universe. Nerdy but fascinating. The notes are incomplete for sure, for instance Octan wasn’t the only gas company represented, there were a lot of Shell sets available. For instance, I had this lovely Shell themed park’n’ride & gas station. Hat Tip: Simon Willison