In 1998 WML, the Wireless Markup Language 1 was born. It is obsolete now. And the phone you are carrying and the browser you are reading probably cannot render it properly. It was designed for a time when bandwidth was very limited, and pho…
I started this page during Front End Study Hall #032. Thanks to everyone who participated in that original discussion and contributed via the indieweb chat. My goal is to collect examples of different techniques for adding transcripts, scri…
Created October 27, 2008. Minor updates 2024. To tell Google Translate not to translate part of your page, use this class. Helping you break the language barrier To tell the Yahoo crawling robot to not crawl content, you could use "robots-n…
July 21, 2006. Posted August 27, 2016 12 + 5 = 17 The factor is Factorized: 0 0 = 17 12 + 5 = 17 The factor is 100 Factorized: 1200 500 = 17 12 + 5 = 17 The factor is 0 Factorized: 0 0 = 17 12 + 5 = 17 The factor is 10 Factorized: 120 50 =
Created 19 December 2002, Last updated 9 September 2025 One of the things about web development is the number of pieces of arcana one picks up. These things are a bit like trivia, and a bit like core knowledge. Here are some common files yo…
On evolt.org's thelist it was asked by muinar: How about this - put this in an .htaccess file at your root level directory. Now, everytime Apache sees php3, it will make believe that it's really php. This will also propagate to child direct…
You should be able to tab from the first, to the second, to the third, then to the fourth link. However, if you use the blur() technique to "take the dotted lines off" of a link, you interfere with the tabbing of a web page. This is demonst…
Paste in text here. There ought to be a colon after the speaker's name and each new line assumes there will be a name followed by ":" followed by a quote. When I blog quotes I like to format them as definition lists. This tool takes a block…
July 2024. Updated February 2025. I first got curious to experiment with MathML during an HWC Europe meeting. This test is based on The Problem, an interview question we used at a former employer. Thanks to the participants of Front End Stu…
I got curious about technology in museums: Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth, etc. in late 2010. I was curious about the possibility of locative technologies in museums. thanks to Kelly Crawford and Susan Myrland for their help with these notes. Send i…
Created: April 2001. Updated December 2001, February 2004, December 2024. NOTE: I didn't do any magic here, I just modified the ideas at irt.org on producing RTF files with Cold Fusion Update 1/2002: Matthew Walden had some issues getting t…
Bill Volk wrote on the WebSanDiego mailing list: > On a similar subject ... what's the best way to force a Browser to do a > refresh on a page when the user uses the "Back Arrow" to get to it? I need > to referesh the session objects. This