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IBM requested that XML 1.1 support an additional newline character, which it will, but some people seem upset about it. As I understand it, all it means is that non-1.1-aware parsers that blindly assume they can parse XML 1.1 documents will incorrectly complain that they’re invalid if they contain the additional newline character, which — and I am not making this up — is only used on IBM OS/390 mainframes. Next!
Jeffrey Zeldman: The new pixelism. I predicted this to D months ago, when I was first starting to write Dive Into Accessibility. I’m seeing more and more of this on css-discuss and elsewhere: accessibility is becoming a baseline requirement, not only for real development, but for all-tricked-out pixel pushers and demo gods too. Dynamic menus with Javascript? Ho hum. Dynamic menus that validate and are based on real UL and LI tags and degrade gracefully all the way down to Lynx? Now you’re talking.
Hidden Mozilla prefs.
50 XSLT tips. [via Simon]
Transcript of the Eldred Supreme Court case. Converted to HTML and publicly archived by Aaron.
Extremely Simple Syndication proposal.
- My reaction: excellent; this is what RSS 2.0 should have been.
- RSS 2.0 community reaction: Nice job. … Start a new working group around this format. … XSS can become the SOAP of syndication.
- RSS 1.0 community reaction: I really think you are re-inventing the wheel. … You’re better off spending your time writing a RSS 1.0 module … or perhaps take up knitting.

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