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XHTML, Hyperlinks and separating content from style.

Posted by James - 15/10/07 at 09:10:51 pm

XHTML is the attempt to purify the traditional mishmash of HTML standards, separating content from appearance, and to create a more elegant solution, for a more civilized age.

That’s great in theory - but unless you’re armed with a plethora of cross-browser scripts and an iron will, moving to XHTML 1.0 Strict is a hard, bumpy road. And often one with little discernable gain. Did you know you can’t use target attributes in link tags? Or alignment tags? Ok, so the alignment tags is a non-issue - we can do the same with CSS styles. But how, pray tell, do we achieve the feats we take for granted in HTML - target=”_blank” ?
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Obscure Markup

Posted by James - 26/02/07 at 05:02:50 pm

This is probably the least tipworthy tip i can find, but here’s some of the weirdest, most unusual tags and functions you can use in your basic HTML.

http://obscuretags.com/

What interests me most is the encoding of base64 data in your text code. (Check previous posts and you can see i’ve touched on this before) But now thanks to this article you can have a look at these links; One for the wiki on it and t’other for a website that can generate this base64 code for you from your images. How about that?