After Lo These Many Years, I have a new HTML reference site.

Submitted by kebernet on Sat, 02/26/2005 - 20:22

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For years, when I had a question about HTML, and later CSS and whatnot, I turned to Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi by Richard Rutter of Clagnut. Since 1996 is has been my go-to site when I had a question or couldn't remember something. The king is dead, long live the king! HTML Dog is the new top dog. Aside from the fact that SHJ hasn't updated their look in 7 years -- not that it has ever been an issue -- and HTML Dog is clean and slick, HTML dog has (a) a more complete listing of CSS properties with their quirks, (b) quick comparisions of each rev of the spec, something that deprecates SHJ's "when did what version of Netscape/MSIE support this tag" (that's so mid-90's), and (c) WCAG stuff laid out in easy to read guides. Almost a decade later, I but adieu to Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi, and welcome HTML Dog to my bookmarks file. I can only hope that 9 years go by before I search for another site. Speaking of HTML, XML.com discusses the Google Renaissance in the web client. GMail and Google Maps have really driven home that the DHTML client is not just for experimental stuff anymore. I will admit, I have been inspired by it and find myself doing client-heavy work for the first time in years -- part of the reason I needed a good reference site :P.

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RE: After Lo These Many Years, I have a new HTML reference site.

Submitted by atrox (not verified) on Sat, 02/26/2005 - 22:25.

"I will admit, I have been inspired by it and find myself doing client-heavy work for the first time in years " ditto. actually inspired and considering more client heavy work because the Google stuff is so impressive (but have not actually gotten there yet).

RE: After Lo These Many Years, I have a new HTML reference site.

Submitted by cooper (not verified) on Sat, 02/26/2005 - 22:44.

I have a bunch of stuff I have put together lately, a good chunk of which is in the jPenguin code. I have found that the quality of open-source javascript is pretty fucking low. I have gotten several Javascript "APIs" and have found myself fixing serious bugs in all of them, however, I now have a good library of stuff -- my Data-bound tabular data control, an XML-RPC client that works on all browsers, a good bunch of stuff -- that I have begun putting together. Right now I am working on what I call the "Publisher" section of of the jPenguin. It is basically a universal blog publishing system that supports Blogger API and MetaWeblog API (right now). The idea is each user can register all their blogs, including the penguin, and use one interface to publish everywhere they want, and publish the same post multiple places if they want. While what I have done up till now has some neat javascript, this is going to be my tour de force, I think. I also have a new Sidebar that works as an Opera, MSIE-Win, MSIE-Mac and Moz/NN/FF sidebar. It is good enough that it has officially completely replaced Sage for me. In fact, I think it is better than Sage, for a number of reasons. It is just nice that FINALLY, aside from MSIE, you can write really advanced stuff and it executes well on every browser. The funny thing, though, for me is seeing Firefox lose out on some of this. While not unacceptabe, the render time on the new sidebar in FF is maybe 40 or 50% higher than MSIE or Opera. Now I know Opera is marketed as the uberest fastest browser, and it is fast while it renders stuff wrong (wrong as in "Cloned IE wrong"). I was just surprised to see that FF drags MSIE-Win in data structures speed for big strucutres.