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Friday, 6 October 2006
Recently I documented the poor communication skills of the people behind Sensis, the yellowpages and whitepages company, now also promoting themselves as “The search engine for Australians”.
Although it appears that Sensis have made improvements in the poor relevancy of their search engine, their lack of understanding of even the most basic of customer enquiries still poses significant problems.
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Wednesday, 4 October 2006
Having recently ported some HTML pages to XHTML, we were a little surprised that our favourite validator continued to warn us that our very simple one-line javascript code was no longer correct:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
copthis();
</script>
Apparently, the trick is to enclose the actual javascript code with a “CDATA” section like this:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
copthis();
//]]>
</script>
The reason is apparently that under the XHTML standard, the javascript code is considered as “PCDATA” and therefore treated by the validator in the same manner as the rest of the markup code. See this article from About.com for more.
Sunday, 1 October 2006
After trying a bunch of RSS readers, we finally settled on Sharpreader from a clever bloke by the name of Luke Hutteman.
Luke has managed to create a news aggregator which combines all the essential functionality with a simple and clean interface which took us less than two minutes to learn:
Sharpreader is free and only works on the Windows platform. It also requires the .NET framework, which you probably already have installed. If not, get the runtime package here.
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