Tag Archives: HTML

PHP: XPath on HTML and XHTML

Posted on 21 Jun 2013 by hakre

Christan Weiske has published a nice summarizing article with the same title. It contains some detailed information I haven’t found so far on the web so worth the link: PHP: XPath on HTML and XHTML. It also reminds me of … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on a Websites’ Environment

Posted on 10 Aug 2012 by hakre

I needed to put an older site under git version control and I wanted to be able to at least semi-automatically publish that site to the webserver. This is an old project for very good friends. Time to put it … Continue reading →

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CSS Selector to XPath conversion

Posted on 18 Mar 2012 by hakre

While playing with a parser experiment that fully supports the CSS selectors syntax and the discovery of the Selectors API I started to think about the transformation from CSS selectors to XPath. Sure I’m not the only one, so I … Continue reading →

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Architecture the Lost Years (Robert Cecil Martin; 4 Nov 2011)

Posted on 9 Jan 2012 by hakre

Did worldwide Hypertext turned software developers out in the field upside-down? In Architecture the Lost Years (1h 06m) Robert C. Martin talks about the web and how it influenced development design decisions in the last decade(s). Is the system the … Continue reading →

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Title belongs into Head

Posted on 2 Nov 2011 by hakre

Whatever type of website you create, take care you put the <title> on top of the <head> (add this to your quality-control checklist). As most web-browser don’t support to copy the title-line easily (I guess that’s because of how in-accessible … Continue reading →

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Substitutes for PHP 5.4’s htmlspecialchars.

Posted on 31 Aug 2011 by hakre

See UPGRADING

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QueryPath PHP Library to deal with XML/HTML esay CSS-like access and manipulation. Code available at Github.

Posted on 19 Jun 2011 by hakre | Leave a comment

HTML5 is lame

Posted on 25 Feb 2011 by hakre

Some say XHTML was lame. If so, HTML5 will be even more lame. There isn’t any DTD. Can you imagine? Is the HEAD element needed or not? And what about the BODY or HTML element? Who can answer these questions? … Continue reading →

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+1: “Mozilla Document Center is by a stretch my favourite. It’s a rapidly growing wiki-based documentation […]. The HTML, CSS and Javascript documentation is really excellent, and going there directly often beats googling.” – via: Het Bijstere Spoor

Posted on 18 Feb 2011 by hakre | Leave a comment

html5lib – A Python and PHP implementations of a HTML parser based on the WHATWG HTML5 specification.

Posted on 15 Feb 2011 by hakre | Leave a comment

WasHTML PHP Library

Posted on 29 Sep 2010 by hakre

Noting this down for future reference: WasHTML is a PHP script that allow only safe HTML for web-applications that have to display unsafe data. It washes your HTML from dangerous data like javascript, references to unchecked remote files and forms … Continue reading →

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Disable Stylesheets in Internet Explorer

Posted on 23 Aug 2010 by hakre

Microsofts Browser, the Internet Explorer, is somehow hated by Webdesigners and Developers throughout the world. But still there is discussion over here and there whether or not to support the Browser any longer, for example version 6. I won’t go … Continue reading →

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HTTP/HTML: Missing HTTP-Body/HTML on Redirect

Posted on 16 Jun 2010 by hakre

This bothers me often: unfriendly redirects.

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XHTML5

Posted on 13 Jun 2010 by hakre

Did you know that HTML5 extends from XHTML as well? I did not, it was Anne who made me curious. The quiz (see on the right) is still open.

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Mass Deletion Problems with WordPress

Posted on 25 May 2010 by hakre

I had a sort of hardcore testing running over the weekend, there was a bogus bugreport that made me uploading more than 80 thousand images to my blog in #13443. Now my Blog has way too many useless images, some … Continue reading →

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QueryPath – Find your Way

Posted on 25 May 2010 by hakre

QuerPath is another PHP library for working with XML and HTML. Licensed under LGPL/MIT it self-announces it with the following features:

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mustache — Logic-less templates.

Posted on 30 Apr 2010 by hakre

Another minimalistic template lanugage I stumbeled over: mustache. It’s so reduced it has the tagline “logic-less templates” and really, it is reduced. Reduced in features but not in implementation languages:

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Mozilla Jetpack

Posted on 4 Apr 2010 by hakre

If you’re a webdeveloper you sometime might have dreamed about creating your own Firefox extension. But you might never wanted to learn all the Details of XUL and XPI. Well, no need to do so any longer with the Mozilla … Continue reading →

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HTML Entity Boundaries – Zero Padding

Posted on 25 Feb 2010 by hakre

I can not say why, but the HTML specification does allow to zero-pad numerical entities [Reference needed]. Well that sounds fair per-se, but it does not give a limit here. So strictly spoken, you can pad your numeric entities with … Continue reading →

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Twig PHP template

Posted on 25 Jan 2010 by hakre

Marketing is often referred to black magic. Looks like within the PHP Community some coders know how to deal properly with it when you see this list of adjectives for the Twig template language (isn’t that a template engine?): Twig, … Continue reading →

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