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JXT - Javascript XHTML Tags

By Davide Zanotti
October 9, 2009

First of all, I would like to thanks Rich Tretola and O'REILLY, for the possibility to write on this blog and talking about my project (http://www.jxtproject.com), I'm very thankful for that! ...and I'm quite embarrassed, because this is my...

Collaborative Publishing: One Brand New Title, One Success

By Keith Fahlgren
September 29, 2009

Another site focused on collaborative publishing, Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, launches while we look back on the first attempt to improve manuscripts by engaging the community in an open and collaborative dialog with the authors, Programming Scala.

Welcome To The Dojo

By John Barlow
September 28, 2009

Welcome To The Dojo. That is how a friend of mine introduced me to this Javascript Framework. "The Dojo? Great, now he's going to act all mystic like and not directly answer any of my questions." I thought to myself. Turns out, he was talking about a framework that is truly awesome. I'll admit, the documentation is a bit to dig through, but hopefully my experience and previous digging will be of use to you. Don't worry, the only things being thrown around in this "Dojo" are Javascript and web programming ideas you may or may not have seen before.

W3C Widgets: Yet another XML-in-ZIP file format? - Looks good

By Rick Jelliffe
September 21, 2009

It will be interesting to see how big a widget can get: can it be a full word processor? And what make's widget so different from applets?

Beware of browser and OS numbers

By Rick Jelliffe
September 17, 2009

For some markets the success/domination by Microsoft is much stronger than blanket figures indicate.

Do we need lazy loading XML parsers to make XHTML scalable?

By Rick Jelliffe
September 10, 2009

W3C does not want to cop having to serve dumb XHTML requests.for DTDs and schemas. A different DOCTYPE and a lazy loading parser policy would help. But I think all the ISO/MathML special character public entity sets should be built into XML.

Jotting on parsers for SGML-family document languages: SGML, HTML, XML #5 - Collapsing bubbles

By Rick Jelliffe
September 10, 2009

Collapsing bubbles. Converting a DTD with tag omission to a regular grammar. Needing the stack for less. Term rewriting.On the fly addition of rules. Are SGML-family documents trees? SGML as a centre of gravity no more?

Weak validation using hash codes

By Rick Jelliffe
September 7, 2009

High performance gateways are a potential use case for efficient weak validation systems.

Jotting on parsers for SGML-family document languages: SGML, HTML, XML #4 - Some links to research

By Rick Jelliffe
September 6, 2009

We seem to be getting to the stage of finally having several credible candidates for language class that can cope with SGML-family systems.

Jotting on parsers for SGML-family document languages: SGML, HTML, XML #3 - Putting it together more

By Rick Jelliffe
September 6, 2009

Now by now you may be saying Rick, are you really saying that SGML can only be described by some kind of seven-level grammar? Zut alors! And HTML and XML too?

Jotting on parsers for SGML-family document languages: SGML, HTML, XML #2 - Stateless semicoroutines may be convenient

By Rick Jelliffe
September 5, 2009

Here is Melvin Conway's foundation point from his 1963 paper defining coroutines: "That property of the design which makes it amenable to many segment configurations is its separability."

Jotting on parsers for SGML-family document languages: SGML, HTML, XML - You say automata and I say automata

By Rick Jelliffe
August 30, 2009

But it is no use me sitting here complaining that people are saying "drop SGML" without even knowing what it is they are dropping. So I thought I'd make some little diagrams roughly scoping a basic machine for SGML family parsers.

Let's Call It A Draw(ing Surface) - Diving Into HTML 5

By Mark Pilgrim
August 17, 2009

This excerpt is from "Dive Into HTML 5" which will be published in early 2010 by O'Reilly Media. The book will cover features from the upcoming HTML 5 specification and other emerging standards. HTML 5 is still a work-in-progress; browser support is listed at the beginning of each section.

The Assertions in HTML 5

By Rick Jelliffe
May 19, 2009

Lets look at the assertions in draft of HTML 5: The Markup Language which collects constraints about the markup: the kinds of things that are susceptible for schema testing.

Master Blaster

By Rick Jelliffe
March 20, 2009

Peter Sefton has had a great series of blog entries in which he has managed to blast almost everyone in the office document space:

Visual Studio 2008: Rich IntelliSense for jQuery

By Jeremy Bierly
November 6, 2008

Last week, Microsoft released Rich IntelliSense for jQuery for Visual Studio 2008. This will also work for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. This comes a month after the anouncement that jQuery will be shipping with future releases of VS 2008, making jQuery the official JavaScript framework for developing .NET AJAX applications.

XSLT-based XHTML Markup Sanitizer

By M. David Peterson
October 14, 2008

I've been meaning to write an XSLT-based XHTML markup sanitizer for a while now and tonight discovered I needed it sooner rather than later. In case you find benefit from it, here it is

How to create Tabs with CSS and jQuery from scratch

By Eric Berry
October 11, 2008

Learn how to create a tabbed content window using CSS and jQuery from scratch.

Excellent result for @charset detection of CSS in WWW browsers

By Rick Jelliffe
September 16, 2008

So, from these test results, it looks pretty good for adopting the same policy for determining the encoding for CSS files as you use for XML: if there is a BOM then use that (i.e. your document is in UTF-16 of some kind); otherwise use explicit labeling with an initial @charset.That works with all the current generation, which is really great.

Cross-platform APIs to be in the WWW driver's seat next?

By Rick Jelliffe
September 16, 2008

The alternative to HTML 5 is for websites based on cross-platform APIs: not just browser sniffing but platform sniffing. ...As well as seeing HTML 5 as a way to ward off the evils of proprietary formats, we need to figure out how to use it to neutralize the negative impacts of these formats: if HTML 5 and CSS can be augmented in ways that take advantage of slicker rendering and interaction by the specific-vendor platforms, then their presence becomes a net gain not a challenge to interoperability.

HTML4ever or: the next logical step

By Michael Hausenblas
August 29, 2008

These days, it seems it's in vogue to rant about HTML 5. I'd rather explain the need for structured XHTML.

AIR: Tricks with mx:HTML

By Andrew Trice
July 14, 2008

In a number of cases, it is a lot easier to format text for display with HTML, rather than create an ActionScript based component to render complex-formatted text. This is especially the case when you have mixed content that should be displayed inline within the content (images, tables, text wrapping, etc...). Here are a few tricks that you can use to fully take advantage of the mx:HTML control within your applications.

Weekend Reading: AIR for JavaScript Developers

By Andre Charland
April 26, 2008

The updated AIR for JavaScript O'reilly book is out and it's free so download it here! Not only is it free but it's creative commons licensed which means you could modify if you felt so inclined. This is a great overview of how to use AIR with HTML and JS. If you read the earlier version from year it's important to get the new as the security model has changed since then.