When I build a site, I'd like to have at least one browser I can show it off in without any hacks or workarounds, and yet still retain maximum functionality. Knowing that none of the browsers have perfect standards adherence, which one comes closest? Also, are there any standards areas in which a single browser seems to specialize? Oper...
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What references offer a good summary/tutorial for using RDF/OWL? There seem to be enough tools (Protege, Topbraid, Jena, etc.) that knowing the syntax of the markup languages is not necessary, but knowing the concepts is, of course, still critical. I'm working through the w3c documents (particularly the RDF Primer) but I'd like to fi...
I'm looking for all the current standard header values a web server would generally receive. An example would be things like "what will the header look like when coming from a Mac running OS X Leopard and Camino installed?" or "what will the header look like when coming from Fedora 9 running Firefox 3.0.1 versus SuSe running Konqueror?"...
What is the state of native SVG support in the most popular browsers in their latest releases? Internet explorer Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Konqueror Camino ...
What's the best way to parse fragments of HTML in C#? For context, I've inherited an application that uses a great deal of composite controls, which is fine, but a good deal of the controls are rendered using a long sequence of literal controls, which is fairly terrifying. I'm trying to get the application into unit tests, and I want to...
I have an application that uses window.open() to generate dynamic popups. Unfortunately, I've had trouble creating the content of the new windows using the standard DOM functions (createElement, appendChild), and I've gone to using document.write() to generate the page. Concretely, how can I go from this: function writePopup() { va...
What's the most common way to deal with a series of block elements that need to be on a line (if javascript needs to be able to modify their widths, for example)? What are the pros and cons to applying float:left to each of them vs. using positioning to place them? ...
Many (most?) sites aiming for accessability and standards compliance use unordered lists for their navigation. Does this make the site more accessible or does it just provide useful elements for styling? I don't mind them, and I have been using unordered lists in this way. It's just that, when I remove the styling from a page to try to ...
Hey. We're building a large ASP.NET website, and have hired an external firm to do the design (CSS + protoype pages). In fitting the design to the page, we've found a number of problems that indicate ASP.NET's workings were never considered. My question is - Is there a common standard (that should be) used by design firms creating what w...
A programmer I know has a website that is fully Standards Compliant. It uses Unicode-encoded fully-validated XHTML 1.1 with CSS. The pages are frames-free, table-free and JavaScript-free. He would like to be directed to a blogging tool that does not demand any particular database system or web server, but does create static pages that ...
I'm still having a hard time not wanting to use Tables to do my Details View Layout in HTML. I want to run some samples by people and get some opinions. What you would prefer to see in the html for a Details View? Which one has the least hurddles cross browser? Which is the most compliant? Which one looks better if a I have a static...
Is there a reason why these two standards are being developed separately? They seem to be solving the same problem but what are the differences and, if they are to remain separate, what roles are they expected to take in web development in the future? ...
I've been reading about the @font-face rule and trying to work out if it's worth using it in a project to render "franklin gothic medium" for title instead of something like sIfr. I figured that for browsers that don't support it I could make it fall back on Arial. The thing is that I'm having trouble getting a definitive answer about w...
ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 seem to be two formats that are common the web. Should I use one over the other? Is one just an extension? Do I really need to care that bad? ...
I recently came across a use of the @import rule on Coda.com. They're actually using to import the main style sheet for the site, specifically the format: <style type="text/css" media="screen"> @import url(./coda.css); </style> Which will hide the rules from Netscape 3 and IE 3 and 4. Since a web development tools primary audience w...
Is it valid html to have the following: <form action="a"> <input.../> <form action="b"> <input.../> <input.../> <input.../> </form> <input.../> </form> So when you submit "b" you only get the fields within the inner form. When you submit "a" you get all fields minus those within "b". If it isn'...
Google, Microsoft, & Yahoo now plan to create a new web standard. Is this going to be an advantage to web developers using html, ajax as development? Will there be no browser issues if this happens? Are they doing this new standards to beat adobe's flash player, and mxml conventions? What's the best move for web app development today ...
Are there any naming conventions or standards for Url parameters to be followed. I generally use camel casing like userId or itemNumber. As i am about to start of a new project, i was searching whether there is anything for this, and could not find anything. I am not looking at this from a perspective of language or framework but more as...
I can't figure it out. Is it because the people making the browsers don't care? Is it because we, as developers, already write hack code to get around things that don't work in browser X and Y? ...