UPDATE: I’ve corrected some <html:media> self closing errors (damn XHTML habits) and I have added a statement about backwards compatibility in the questions section.

Below is a long post about the possibilities of HTML with only 7 reserved elements which would use XML namespace syntax, a Form API, and the reserved attributes for those two APIs, which I believe, would make HTML much stronger. Let’s face it, HTML5 is already becoming so, so bloated with too much effort on backwards compatibility. If you just want to skim, here are the table of contents:
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Posted in (X)HTML, Philosophy, Programming, Technology

As you may know TechCrunch has been releasing stolen property from Twitter. They supposedly don’t actually know the person who hacked Twitter’s servers and stole many extremely confidential files. And FYI, I’m not putting links to any of their sources as I don’t want to give them any click through traffic from here.
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Posted in Philosophy, Random, Technology

What seems like ages ago, HTML was born. HTML provided a way to structure content and display data. HTML started getting boring and people started hacking it. To suit the needs of the expanding web and the desperate need for web site customization, tags and customization, or stylization, tools came out promptly such as <font>,<center>, and the infamous <blink> and <marquee> tags. Hacking continued and people discovered they could add images to <table>s and combined with all the previous tags could come up with pretty nice looking sites with the expense of completely draining HTML from it’s original application.
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Posted in CSS, Philosophy, Programming, Technology

Who’s fault is IE6? Many, well most, would say that it’s M$. They say things like “If they would just add IE7 to XP now…”, or “They just bundled it with the OS, but if they just…”, or my all time favorite “Well, unfortunately is has a X% of market share, so…”
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With the CSS3 specs showing rounded corners, box shadows and text shadows one has to think, “how long before there is no actual png, gif, or jpg images? How much longer before there is no more ’slicing’?” Take this example. You have a web site that has a main content area with rounded corners, a gradient used for the header and background, and a shadow behind the nav text and a shadow behind the main content.
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