whump.com | More Like This WebLog

• That CSS float clearing method
• Mezzoblue’s warning about scrollbars appearing in some cases when using the above.
• Sam Ruby’s i18n guide

• JavaScript Templates

  Would be interesting with fetching templates via XMLHTTPRequest instead of stashing them in textareas.

• Tim Bray thinks Technorati ought to charge

  They’d have to figure out how to fight tag spammers.

• Salon.com interview with Ian M. Banks that I missed.
• Guido van Rossum on the late Jef Raskin’s suggestion that anywhere you use a confirmation dialog, you really want undo instead.
• CalDAV [ via Laughing Meme ]
• Ajax
  • Simple Ajax in PHP
  • Leslie Michael Orchard’s Next generation web apps using REST, XML, XSLT, and XmlHTTPRequest predates JJG’s Ajax definition.
  • That XMLHTTPRequest tutorial everyone linked
• James Tauber on meaningless apostrophes in science fiction and fantasy names.
• Adam wants out of the textarea he’s stuck in
• Colorization through optimization [ via Laughing Meme ]
• Structured Blogging
  • This builds on Kottke’s idea of different post formats for reviews, link blogs, and longer entries.
  • But it uses non-standard markup to achieve the goal.
  • Better to use lossless xhtml.
• Removing no-follow from links in WordPress entries [ via Anne's Weblog about Markup & Style ]

Possibly Related posts (machine generated):

1. More Development Links
2. Movable Type and XSLT
3. Caveat Lector on Semantic HTML
4. Mozilla’s XMLHttpRequest object
5. The Party Vanguard goes Wireless