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| Striving to retain XHTML 1.0 Strict certification! |
Posted by Andrew on 20 Jun 2009 |
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HTML has come a long way since when it started. Now, there are many standards, ranging from HTML 4.0 Transitional to XHTML, and so on. Lots of people don't follow these standards. In fact, sadly this website has numerous flaws and does not satisfy any of the W3C standards. However, with my new site (www.kwasik.com), I tried to force myself to write the entire website in XHTML 1.0 Strict.
It wasn't too difficult, I have some experience writing XHTML pages. Everything has to be in lowercase, all tags MUST be closed properly (tags without proper close tags need to use the "/>" suffix), and a lot of the quick-and-easy HTML tricks are not valid (such as <center> and such).
I did run into one issue... popup windows. Usually when I needed a popup window, I would use the target="_blank" attribute of the <a> tag. Of course, this turned out to violate the XHTML protocol, so I went out hunting for an alternative. I was hoping to find an alternative to javascript but was unlucky. However I did find a compromise:
<a href="some url" onclick="return !window.open(this.href);">link</a>
Normally if you disable javascript, the entire link that depends on javascript would do nothing. However in this case, when javascript is disabled the link is still valid (except that it opens in the same window). A fair compromise, right?
Tell me what you think and if you have a better alternative thats XHTML 1.0 String compliant :) |
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| My new website... |
Posted by Andrew on 20 Jun 2009 |
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Just a quick heads up, I recently acquired kwasik.com and have set it up as a brief summary of who I am and the current projects I'm working on. I hope to keep this site for the purposes of a mini blog...
Please visit the new site if you get a chance and tell me what you think!
www.kwasik.com |
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| Quality these days.... or is it just Netbooks? |
Posted by Andrew on 21 Feb 2009 |
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Alright I know I haven't added to this in awhile.. but this is one article i have to write somewhere!
What has happened to the quality of products these days!
When I purchased my EeePC 1000 from a well-known Canadian retailer, it was defective on arrival... after returning it and going to another store, I managed to grab one that wasn't defective (this was a few months ago... luckily today I am still happy with the product). On boxing day (2008) I picked up an Acer AspireOne for my mom, a month later, I decided to load Windows XP onto it.. ran into some troubles that spelled Hard drive failure (couldn't even revert back to the standard linux OS). So I took it into repair.. shockingly enough they returned it to me with a replaced SSD and memory within a few days, but I'm having the SAME problems (maybe a motherboard issue.. defective controller related to USB data transfers?).
Hell, even my friend had issues with the first Dell Mini9 he received (it arrived with a crack in the LCD). So.. my question is... is it poor quality control? Or are netbooks just a defective invention?
Post your comments, or email me on the contact page.. I'd love to hear your opinion. |
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| Linux |
Posted by Andrew on 11 Nov 2008 |
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Linux.. the alternative choice
I've been using Ubuntu for a couple of months now.. overall enjoying it (despite the fact that the 8.10 upgrade corrupted most of it.. but thats another issue!)
Recently I've been looking at more lightweight options for a future purchase item (can you say netbook?)... anyways I ran across LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org), Linux From Scratch. THese guys have a guide on how to build your own linux distribution from scratch!
And it's proving to be a LOT more difficult than it sounds... hope to update more soon |
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| Cuil? wha? Qu-eel? Quill? no. "Cool" |
Posted by Andrew on 28 Jul 2008 |
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Go check out cuil.com
Apparently theres a new search engine in town. Cuil.com pronounced "cool" is set to compete against Google with a slightly different approach.
It's definitely interesting. They base their searches on content, not just popularity and you can search without getting the nasty privacy-invasive cookie attached to you (like Google with its ways to achieve the best ads).
For one thing.. searching KwaziCo put my site in the first position haha and I definetely love that =)
Go try it for yourself: www.cuil.com
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