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Standards friendly characters

Anyone who spends time validating web pages using the W3C service, or similar, will no doubt have encountered errors in markup somewhere along the way with characters not being encoded correctly ie ampersands in body text and URLs, greater-than or less-than symbols, etc. This page provides a useful list of web symbols that will [...]

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Wed, March 28 2007 » Web developing » No Comments

Flash performance

It’s a while since I had to do it, but I’ve been aware that using Flash on the web, especially where Macs are concerned can be a big drag – everything can seem slow and clunky.
So here’s some useful ideas on why masks, video, alpha, onClipEvents can cause performance issues (and Google will tell you, [...]

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Wed, March 21 2007 » Web developing » No Comments