send your xhtml as application/xhtml+xml

If you use PHP to serve your web pages, then here is the code snippet to use for determining if a user's browser is xhtml compliant.if ( isset($_SER [...]

sql for changing a single term

I'm no expert when it comes to sql, so this handy little snippet I recently used to add paragraph tags to my blockquotes in order to validate my lowe [...]

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Splicd

Everything you know about CSS is wrong

Link Thumbnail

The main idea is to create a thumbnail 'tooltip' for external links; which would be very useful if it can be hacked to allow a:focus as well as a:hove [...]

child selectors

I found this nice explanation of child selectors on the css-discuss forum:What does it mean when there's a ">" in the css code? For example:li.sub [...]

Eolas ActiveX Solution from Microsoft

If you are embedding anything in your web page which using the applet, embed or object elements, then here's some Javascript from Microsoft to help [...]

ACE code editor

12 Steps to Better Code

This is a personal bookmark for myself really, but well worth reading if you work for a software development company: 12 Steps to Better Code. [...]

Code compressor

Inovative idea from w3compiler: crunch all your code to save file size and therefore bandwidth. [...]

Competent Classing

I've just discovered an amazing CSS technique at Me yerweb that I wasn't aware off; I'll need to run through the code on all my sites now and strip [...]

dev.mobi

As Anne says, it's too late stop this .mobi business, so you may as well learn how to serve your websites for .mobi sites [...]

Nokia Mobile Browser Code

Nokia have made the code for their browser open to all. Dave Shea discusses this in more detail. [...]

25 Code Snippets for Web Designers (Part1)

Great list of web design tips and tricks - I like the Poll software idea. [...]

Da Vinci's Other Code

Another mind-tester from Coudal. [...]

The Da Vinci Code

Trailer . [...]

Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct

Tim O'Reilly has knocked together some points for a Bloggers Code of Conduct including:We take responsibility for our own words and for the comments w [...]

Snippely

20 Things open source

Replace target="_blank"

Using to open a hyperlink in a brand new window is not strictly valid for XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01. There is however a simple way round this using [...]

CSS for IE only

I found this interesting snippet from a blog made on the 31st July on the DHTML site; using a hyphen before a tag declaration in your stylesheet all [...]

CodeHighlighter

CodeHighlighter is a lightweight, unobstrusive and fully configurable script for displaying code examples highlighted in a way similar to the way ma [...]

CSS multiple background images

This funky feature works in Safari and Konqueror: screenshot here. The code looks a bit like this:body {background-image: url(tigerdisc.png), url(sp [...]