31 Custom tags resource

If you want to add new tags and attributes, take a look at WAHTWG specs (proposed to W3C):

http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/

…at least you can have some (non-)standard for your non-standard elements.

posted at 03:12 pm on May 24, 2005 by kL

32 X is for eXtensible

This is preposterous… XML means eXtensible Markup language. As in you should extend it and create new vocabularies accroding to it’s syntax rules to fit your business need. To suggest that we should not use XML to do the things XML was created for just doesn’t make sense.

posted at 08:40 am on May 25, 2005 by Todd

33 All our base are not belong to us

Great! let us be thankful for XHTML’s modular design, oh the wisdom, and add a module describing a flag attribute using our own DTD. It’s not-trivial, we are told.

Not-trivial, repeat that. And then hear the truth. “It’s not trivial either because we’ve obfuscated it, or because there isn’t a teacher/writer/actualuser amongst us”.

“But at least its jobs for the boys for a few years yet.”

Practical accessible reading material on the subject appears not to exist. Give up now and save yourself some time. Some messiah will come along with the subject on a stick one day, maybe. You lucky lazy jobless web mechanics.

The use of language belies the w3c as technocratic elitists more inclined to ponder their own cleverness than encapsulating XHTMLs logic for anyone with more than one thing to do.

Of course it’s astonishingly simple when you know how, but don’t worry your pretty little heads about it.

posted at 07:26 am on July 15, 2005 by HomelessMechanic

34 Language barriers

ALA Writers,

I have read this web site religiously since the late 90’s and I am a believer and follower of web standards. As I do understand some of the lingo and jargon in this article, some of it is just alien to me, and thus i open and quickly close the document. How techy does an article really need to be. Content is key, and if you want to really educate people, start talking to them in a manner that a broad range of people can understand, and not just us code geeks.

Sure this site is a great resource, but is it really at its full potential?? I reccomend comparing the time a user spends on a page that is easy to understand vs. pages like this. I am sure there is some drastic results.

Thanks,
Anthony Armendariz
Partner/Creative Director
Design Dialogue
Houston, TX

posted at 08:44 pm on July 21, 2005 by Anthony Armendariz