Archive for September, 2005
Why you should escape your ampersands
Molly‘s recent Searching for Standards, mentions that AOL’s search engine doesn’t validate due to unescaped ampersands. I’ve personally seen a lot of this happening and I thought I’d relate a little experience I had a few years ago while working for my previous employer where I learned the hard way that I should escape my [...]
Gimme a little base
Recently I’ve found myself in situations where I need to mess around with HTML documents for sites that I haven’t previously worked on. This means that I don’t have any of the document’s dependancies locally. Plus, some of these pages are dynamically generated, requiring that I install the appropriate environment on my machine in order [...]