Take a look at any blog, wiki, forum, etc. Specifically, look at how posts are created, filtered, and displayed. There are dozens of different ways for authors to specify the formatting and content of their articles/posts, and hundreds of ways to render the results. Some blogs rely on now-famous 3rd-party markup implementations like Textile and [...]
Tag Archive for 'standards'
Creating a (Unified!) Vendor-Neutral Markup Standard
Published by February 21st, 2007 in Programming, Software 1 CommentThe Difference Between an Acronym and an Abbreviation
Published by February 5th, 2007 in Guides, Programming 2 CommentsTen to one, if you’re posting an article, creating a web page, or just coding some HTML; and you’re about to code in a <abbr> tag to let people not “in the know” get what exactly it is that you’re talking about, you actually should be using the <acronym> tag instead. Maybe you’re not even [...]
The Need for Creating Tag Standards
Published by January 15th, 2007 in Corporate Talk, Programming, Software 82 CommentsWeb 2.0, blogging, and tags all go together, hand-in-hand. However, while RPC standards exist for blogs and the pinheads boggle over the true definition of a “blog,” no one has a cast-in-iron standard for tags. Depending on where you go and who you ask, tags are implemented differently, and even defined in their own unique way. [...]
