HTML 5: making NSFW content… safer for work

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 10 June, 2009 to the technology subset

Browsers may be able to hide content that is deemed “Not Safe for Work” (NSFW) if a proposal to include a NSFW tag is incorporated into the HTML 5 specification.
One of the most common descriptive notes people have to write using text when they post links or images to blogs, comments or anywhere in HTML [...]

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A list of rare HTML tags including some that may be extinct

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 26 March, 2009 to the technology subset

A list of ten HTML tags, including a couple that are very obscure (there were two I’ve never encountered in 11 years of HTML-ing).
Scan the list then check out the accompanying discussion regarding the usage of some tags.

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A very different approach to tagging

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 to the technology subset

A very different approach to tagging.
Discovered at the Ask ET forum, a new way to present tagged articles.
Ask ET uses a totally different approach. Instead of linking to pages for each tag, it simply shows the tagged articles inline. No separate screens. No navigation. It’s a beautifully simple solution.

Very nice. Is there a Wordpress plugin [...]

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WordPress 2.3.1 Release Candidate 1

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 25 October, 2007 to the technology subset

From the Wordpress development blog:
WordPress 2.3.1 is almost ready to go.

Great. Just what I want to hear, especially having not graduated disassociated to WP 2.3.
Yet.
I have however (just) upgraded The InterChange Desk, and the new native tagging feature works a treat. While I have nothing against Ultimate Tag Warrior, it just seems [...]

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Links for 16 October 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 16 October, 2007 to the disassociated subset

Browsershots: “Test your web design in different browsers.” Very useful tool for web designers and bloggers who are interested in how their website displays in different browsers. (Internet Explorer is but one browser!) It can take a while for screen shots to generate depending how many you request, but the wait is worth it.
FILE magazine: [...]

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Quickie

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 3 October, 2007 to the comment subset

Possibly the most noteworthy feature of the recent Wordpress 2.3 release is the new tagging function.
To use tags up until now in WP, it has been necessary to install a plugin, such as Ultimate Tag Warrior. While effective, some people feel UTW is just a tad too difficult to set up and use though.
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Links for 28 September 2007

Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 28 September, 2007 to the disassociated subset

Office gossip, an essential skill: This is of interest. “If you are constantly off having coffee with a colleague, chatting in the tea room and swapping office gossip over the printer, you are not a slacker. Not at all, in fact you are likely to be a high-performing manager.”
7 Ways to use StumbleUpon as [...]

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