One of the aspects of being a webmaster is to make sure that your web pages are compatible with the most popular web browsers. This requires some tweaking and hacks, especially if Internet Explorer 6 comes into the picture. Validating web pages is just one aspect of this. Most browsers handle invalid elements well so [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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XML Escape Tool
Webmasters have to make sure that the code of their website is excaping several characters correctly. Failure to do so can lead to all kinds of problems from display errors to functions that are not working correctly because of this (check out The XML Page Cannot Be Displayed article for an example of things that [...]
A standard compliant web browser and editor: Amaya
Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards. Sticking to standards can therefore lead to issues with [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Open XML Docx Viewer
The introduction of the new Microsoft Office XML formats (docx, pptx, xlsx) have caused some confusion by users of previous Microsoft Office releases as their versions were not able to open the new document formats by default. The same was true for users without access to any version of Microsoft Office 2007. Several ways to [...]