Living on a knife edge.

I've been cautious about recommending XHTML for several months now, and this turn of events has made me even more wary of it as a technology that is ready for mainstream use. Creating valid XHTML documents is extremely difficult - virtually impossible by hand without regular checks with the validator, and hard to achieve using home grown tools as well. ... The greatest benefit provided by valid XHTML is the increased ability to automate the extraction and processing of content at a later date (see Mark Pilgrim's acclaimed acronym and citation support for a concrete demonstration of this idea). ... Sadly, it just doesn't seem practical or worthwhile to serve it to browsers. ... from now on my other web projects will target HTML 4.01 Strict.

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9:02:55 AM    

Delay to the start of my CSS tutorial series.

I still plan to go ahead with a CSS tutorial series, as promised. I'm delaying the start, partly to give myself time to work out a good structure for the series, but mainly because I have a shed load of coursework due in a week today that desperately needs my full attention.

This is where my related entries system exposes quite how often I've whined about coursework since I founded this blog.

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8:50:38 AM