Archived posts, August 2004

Content negotiation

Note: There is a follow-up to this article: Content negotiation, AdSense, and comments. As most of you probably know, XHTML should be serv…

Posted on August 8, 2004 in (X)HTML

Compression

Using efficient markup will help keep bandwidth usage down, and make pages load faster. If that isn’t enough, and you need to reduce docum…

Posted on August 10, 2004 in Web General

Sizing monospaced fonts

Something that’s been bothering me for a while is how difficult it seems to be to make text set in a monospaced font be of reasonably simi…

Posted on August 13, 2004 in CSS, Browsers

Web development mistakes

When I visit a website, especially if it’s the site of a competitor or a prospective client, I like viewing source and take a look at what…

Posted on August 24, 2004 in (X)HTML, Web Standards

Web development mistakes, redux

There have been a lot of comments on my recent post about common web development mistakes, and that’s great. Not all comments are of the k…

Posted on August 30, 2004 in Web Standards