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Archive for July, 2007

Is XHTML good enough?

Monday, July 30th, 2007

There are many false benefits of XHTML promoted on the Web. Let’s clear up some of them at a glance:

XHTML does not promote separation of content and presentation any more than HTML does. XHTML has all of the same elements and attributes (including presentational ones) that HTML has, and it doesn’t offer any additional CSS [...]

What is JSON?

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

JSON , which stands for “JavaScript Object Notation”, is a lightweight data-interchange format that is easy for humans to read and write, and for machines to parse and generate. JSON is based on the Object Notation of the JavaScript language. However, it does not require JavaScript to read or write because it is a text [...]

What is social bookmarks?

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Social bookmarking communities can increase traffic to your web site
The purpose of social bookmarks is to give users a place online to store links to their favorite web pages. These bookmarks are available to any computer with Internet access. This saves the trouble of trying to remember a web site address when you [...]

How to add social bookmarking scripts like “Digg this”?

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Social bookmarking websites such as Digg and del.icio.us are great tools to drive traffic to your site and to provide important links (Read more About Social Bookmarks). These services allow varying degrees of automated submissions, and so here you will find the required code to add to your pages to facilitate submission.
Digg bookmark code
Digg does [...]

What is MooTools?

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Mootools is a lightweight abstraction layer between the browser and the code you write and this is really the definition of nearly every js framework out there - Protoype, Dojo, jQuery, Y!UI, etc. It offers more functionality and richer tools for writing javascript, taking what has historically been painful and fraught with buggy [...]