This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
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Good summary of the “competing” HTML/XHTML “standards”. There’s the engineering side of my brain that loves the ‘you have to close every tag’ tidyness of XHTML, but let’s face it, the pragmatic reverse-engineered-tag-soup approach of HTML5 is going to win this one.
Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)
IDE built on top of Eclipse (and available as an Eclipse plugin) that aids in the coding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The code-completion tooltips showing you which browsers understand which keywords looks dead handy.
Whizzy Java applet which creates a pretty map of a web page’s structure.
Python HTML parser which doesn’t choke on malformed markup. Handy for screenscraping.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.