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XHTML 1.4.4 strictbadges. If someone cares for the formats, they'll be able to run the page through a validator anyway. And few things are more embarrassing than pages that claim to be valid but aren't...
Germans – their jokes may not be funny, but at least they're well organised.
Why HTML at all. It's not that it's particularly well suited for this task. For easy to
craft(as Hyatt says – I simply have to mock that impression, hearing the design-impaired teenagers prepare Slashdot-widgets across the internet already) widget, my first intuition would have been Interface Builder and a nice nib file. And if making this work on the basis of AppleScript would be too obscure, why not drive it by JavaScript (to 'enable' more of the aforementioned teenagers)? Hasn't there even been a JavaScript OSA extension around at some stage?
.htaccess
buffs: When using Redirect
of some kind and I want to redirect to an URL with a question mark in it – how do I encode the question mark? The obvious ways didn't work.
NSClassDescription
class? Where, why and how to use it, say. Dwelling on topics where Google only gives a handful of results and that aren't covered in Apple's examples can be a bit frustrating.