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"The question I come to is: How necessary is it to display an RSS icon on a website?" — no, the question is - why are you asking irrelevant questions about RSS buttons when the topic is supposed to be Table Elements belonging to WEB 2.0!?


" Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C’s HTML/XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X." — an offline validator, perfect for those times when the W3C validator itself is down or inaccessible.


"Sensible new standards may yet emerge from the W3C, or from elsewhere, or they may not come at all. Some of this may matter before we ride hover cars." — Zeldman questions when the harbingers of standards doom intend to actually document their claims?

Just a wee tweak jimmy

Orange is (sort of) out, grey is in and the monolith that was the garish 60es wallpaper inspired header has been slain. Long live the king!

After quite some months of orange powered operation, the ‘foo has had a few edges smoothed and the taking-names-and-kicking-ass geekfu ninja is back. Cause Ninjas are cool. And deadly.

Like Chuck Norris. Who is also cool. And deadly. And will round-house kick your head in to prove it. Bitch.

So, a little nip here, a tuck there, some javascript purging and clean-up of code and not only does the damn thing validate (finally) but it loads ~3 times faster than it did, as it was as slow as molasses in liquid nitrogen.. and that’s pretty darn slow. Indeed ice ages (note plural) once came and went whilst the previous code did it’s thing.

So we’re loading a tad faster, we’re not breaking apart in your browser (yes, even in Internet Explorer) and we’re certainly not eating your children. Because that would be bad. Doubly so if you didn’t have any. Because then we’d have to send Chuck Norris in. And we know what happens then.

Hate it? Love it? Shower me with praise.. or send Chuck over for a ‘talk’. I dare you. Bitch.

A solution looking for a problem

This has been pin-balling around the internets for a few days now - and succinctly put, suggests that we should all adhere to a blogger’s equivalent of the usual politically correct and chemically castrated system commonly referred to as the code of conduct.

The same morally restrictive and constrained concept as used in many places due to the moronic influences of the minority of folks who can’t help but prove that evolution isn’t without it’s flaws.

It all started way back when Tim O’Reilly proposed a knee-jerk peace-love-harmony reaction to a bunch of retarded misfits mouthing off (in part) when Kathy Sierra decided to point out that being an absolute dick-head isn’t cool.

Sneak peek - 2.0 will have red

If you’ve had a wander around smackfoo earlier today, or spotted my mischievous comments elsewhere, you may have been noticed my
gravatar has changed. I have now officially begun work on my first fully self-coded design. The image to the left is a hint of the new logo I am working on, along with some […]

Who killed “the pretty”?

What happened to the design?
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