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October 31st, 2005

VMware Player with your own Windows XP Professional Virtual Machine

I've played with VMWare before - this could be a quite a good way of setting up testing machines for different browsers. I never seem to have time for this kind of stuff though!

October 24th, 2005

W3C QA - Quality Tips for Webmasters

W3C QA - Quality Tips for Webmasters – this is quite a good starting point for improving your website. It’s pretty much an FAQ. I was actually asked about GIFs and PNGs the other day and didn’t really know what to say. I looked on wikipedia to find my answer this time!

October 22nd, 2005

XHTML Character Entity Reference

XHTML Character Entity Reference – Just what I’ve always wanted. I never know what to use for certain characters. This hasa a handy sorting feature that makes it easy to find the entity you want!

October 22nd, 2005

Cleaning up hacks

Cleaning up hacks – I have seen few posts mentioning this. My answer is Surgical Correction Strategy. This involves having one hack free style sheet that you can use with browsers that work and then have others for the ones that don’t (IE5-6 are the ones I generally try and support). If a new browser comes out that supports the standards properly then it isn’t a problem as ...