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Markup and Style

Dec
10
2009

Lax Tag Closing

Both in PHP and ColdFusion I recently discovered that you don’t need to close certain script elements to have them run correctly, which is highly annoying coming from someone who has spent a considerable amount of time learning and abiding by XHTML rules. Internet Exploder was (and still is) famous for being flexible on [...]

Nov
19
2009

The (Under) Belly of the Beast

One habit I have when visiting websites is to look at their codebase, both for curiosity and for new/interesting code snippets. Today, I was going through Facebook’s code while playing Mafia Wars and, aside from the sheer volume of code, a few things that sort of surprised me:

Liberal use of onClick=”" for basically all [...]