I commonly create a form element that dictates the action I want the server to perform, like <input type="hidden" name="action" value="save">. This allows me to have a switch to determine what to do with the data in any situation instead of posting and getting to multiple places. I found a bug in Internet Explorer 7's JavaScript today that introduces a problem with my naming scheme.

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For future reference, the NYTimes.com Art Director says (search for "Visual Consistency") they hand code their site. It still uses a loose DTD and table-based layout, but at least they aren't using DreamWeaver.

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There may come a time when you need to show different content on one page based on a user-selected option. Here's a quick tutorial.

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I've been using the WYMEditor on a little content management system I've been building at work. I was having a problem where I couldn't edit in the HTML editor. Every time I clicked, the HTML textarea in WYMEditor would lose focus.

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If you didn't hear, text on a website is better than an image. Images have their place, but many people use images where text should be. In recent times, people have been using a technique called image replacement to replace text with an image. Typically, there are crazy hacks that involve embedded elements, but there is an easier way.

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As most know, Apple released a new line up of iPods, and possibly a major improvement for the mobile web.

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The iPhone was a little less exciting when Apple revealed that web apps were the only way developers could write applications for the iPhone. While committed folks eventually opened the phone up for third-party applications, some interesting stuff was happening on the web application front. It's called iUI.

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Once upon a time, there was KHTML, The K Desktop Environment's Hypertext Markup Language rendering engine. Later, Apple decided to write a web browser. For whatever reason, Apple embraced KHTML, forked it, and created WebKit. There was much pleasure and much gnashing of teeth.

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Web standards designers often need to make use of display:float to handle things like columns, navigation lists, and more. Usually these floats are followed by something like <div style="clear:both"></div>. It turns out there is an easier way.

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The new W3C HTML working group launched. The charter states that they'll attempt convergence with the WHATWG's recommendation. I remain a little confused with how the browser vendors will handle this.

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I've been trying to figure out the best way to explain how to do modern, semantic, standards compliant web design. I've been trying to make the point to my current protege that one should first look at a website like a term paper and move on from there. I've formulated a method now that I'd like to outline.

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Some guy named PJ Doland suggested we use rel="NSFW" to markup content that is NSFW.

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It's a really old subject, but I haven't said my piece on the XHTML 1.0 versus HTML 4.01 debate. While commenting on Roger Johansson's blog, 456 Berea Street, I said a little bit about what I think. I figured I ought to go ahead and say my fill.

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Surprisingly, SlashDot scooped all the web design websites I normally read on Tim Berners-Lee's announcement that HTML will be incrementally updated (as well as things such as the W3C's HTML validator)

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