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22-Dec-2021

phpStorm: URI is not registered (Settings | Languages & Frameworks | Schemas and DTDs) So I was looking through ancient HTML files last night, as one does, and noted this peculiar error in phpStorm around the DTD of one of the files: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> phpStorm did not like this DOCTYPE. It reported to me: URI is not registered (Settings | Languages & Frameworks...
07-Sep-2020

Image Maps like we did it in 1997! Behold! Image Maps that are server-side! Absolutely ridiculous and enabled by Apache. Check it out.
23-Jan-2012

joecrawford.com, 2012. With Bootstrap. Yesterday I modified my site joecrawford.com. I purchased the domain in 1999 thinking that it would be important to have a more “professional” domain than “artlung.” I go back and forth about the utility of that. Back in 2011 sometime, I decided to remove most of the ways to contact me, and remove the self...
28-Nov-2007

Sixty Out of Ninety-One Sadly, they inserted a hidden link to some dumb dating site into the HTML they generate. Boo! … Quiz was fun though.
20-Feb-2003

<birthday number=”5years”>XML</birthday>; Thoughts on HTML’s Popularity From XML at Five from xml.com: Rick Jelliffe … criticized XHTML: “HTML thrived on being more forgiving of missing tags than even SGML allowed. Throwing that away makes HTML a lot less attractive. Which is true of markup in general, actually.” With which I wholeheartedly agree. HTML is supposedly the most common electronic document type...
04-Apr-2002

Instant addition to the sidebar: ADVOGATO Dang. Ever have a moment of realization like “Where have I been to have missed this?” While I’ve been nattering on about about xhtml vs. html; tables vs. CSS for layout; PostGRE or MySQL or Oracle or SQL Server; Advogato has been discussing things of real importance. Check a few recent entries: Trust Metrics (which...
15-Mar-2002

Old Home Weekend I’ve been thinking about my old job, Jamison/Gold Interactive (no link, they got bought by a big IT Company and crumpled up and blew away) a lot lately. They were a boutique web outfit in Los Angeles, and did excellent Web/Interactive Design. Some news on some of the participants in that place: Brett Walker, Designer,...
28-Dec-2001

inspired by a discussion on the WebSanDiego… inspired by a discussion on the WebSanDiego.org list: my favorite html tags are <strike>[+] and <nobr>[+]
26-Oct-2001

Messing about with a scheme to navigate the headers… Messing about with a scheme to navigate the headers. Edging towards bits of dhtml in scattered locations. The HTML validates, too. But not the CSS.
05-Oct-2001

About the W3C’s New Patent Policy which is getting so much attention these days… About the W3C’s New Patent Policy which is getting so much attention these days. I think you’re right. At some point several years ago a whole battery of folks were mad enough about the mess of standards support that we formed the Web Standards Project. I think that that kind of grassroots development was something...