About two weeks ago, a new XHTML Document Type Recommendation has been released by the W3C, namely the XHTML™ Basic 1.1 – W3C Recommendation 29 July 2008.

It is designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes. The document type is rich enough for content authoring.

Because of the reason that many of my bugfixes concerning “wrong”, – my page looks weird, please help me- visualizations” within Web Browsers are due to “bad XHTML”, I start again this call:
Please keep in mind, XHTML documents begin with important elements which tell the different web browsers how to interpret the document/site and how to validate it for conformance etc.

Just to inspire you to really using correct XHTML structure, making use of the most appropriate document type definition and follow the W3C recommendations, let me note down a metaphor-quote from an ashtray’s sign:

Please do not put paper in here!
This is an ashtray.
This is where fire goes.
Thanks.

Furthermore you may look at the metaphor-picture on the right.
And finally linking to some weird stuff about “like seriously…”.
Last but not least, if someone might not know exactly how to: Converting to XHTML: Simple Rules, Easy Guidelines. – And for the controversial part: Where Our Standards Went Wrong.

See also this article about principles to keep your code clean.

Adobe has released a preview-version of a free framework for AJAX development (under BSD-Licencse).

Everyone who knows a little bit about Javascript can use it.

Their package includes some JS-Files, a quite usable documentation and threee demos. It can be downloaded on the ADOBE Hompage, but notice, that you need to be registered.

Here are some screenshots of the demoapps:

My sister recently asked me, what does “rtm” or respectively the more coarse one, “rtfm” mean, and some friends of the company began to laugh. But why? – It is not as obvious to her (to someone, who does not sit in front of pc all day long), as it might be to some Internet-addicts like me . Therefore I had some second thoughts about why we use so many abbreviations.

As Einstein once said:

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once

… but with YAA it may seem to. Therefore I thought it is the right time to write down a short list of acronyms which may prove useful for the understanding some upconimg W3C articles (and others) about Semantic Web (not just a hype?) technologies. Read more…

AJAX stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” and describes an approach to using a number of existing technologies together, namely XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, XML, XSLT and XMLHttpRequest.

There are many many projects, which concentrate on building there interaction design on WEB UIs. Therefore the research and development in interactive web technologies is carried on rapidly, communicated and new technologies are applied to various projects throughout the web and intranets.

There is a new page waiting to be read and commented in my articles section, namely Introduction to AJAX. I recently read about AJAX and heard some people talking about it and asking, what it means … so I decided to write a short article about this topic. Read more…

Recently I wrote some articles: A short one about upcoming W3C CSS features. This article is only available in the German language yet, but will be updated soon. There is also another article which gives a brief introduction into XML, and another one with focus on XLink and Xpointer.

The articles’ titles are About CSS3, Introduction into XML and More into XML – Xlink and Xpath.