Escaping from Encoding Hell

Jan 19 2010

What we gonna talk about here is character encoding and how to convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. If this doesn’t seem familiar to you you might want to start learning a bit about it. Cause hell is a scary place and you don’t want to end up there. This is how to avoid hell and for those of you who are struggling in the darkness; this is how to get your ass out of there.
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W3C Valid HTML ≠ Good HTML

Apr 29 2009

Recently I have been thinking a lot about what “good” HTML (and/or XHTML) actually is. I have been surprised by noticing that a lot of people seems to be thinking that their HTML is good as long as they’ve passed the Markup Validation Service at W3C. Sometimes they also add “and if my site renders well in all browsers”.
I think that kind of statement is wrong!

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