Feed aggregators should fail gracefully
I don't just mean that they should fail gracefully when thefeeds aren't well formed (although that's an important part ). There are all sorts of troublesome things thatfeeds can do; they can be longer than you expected, for example, or theycan be sent to you very slowly. In all of these cases, feed aggregatorsshould try to fail gracefully, to extract as much information from thefeed as possible unless it is utterly clear that something horrible hasgone wrong and you cannot
必飛「沙沙滾」男友
袁彌明認為倪震與周慧敏的分手聲明是權宜之計。問她可覺得倪震偷歡很衰?她說﹕「係女人都覺得衰,如果係我會即刻飛佢,我唔會揀成日『沙沙滾』的做男友。(倪震可曾相約?)沒有,不
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The pragmatic problem with strict XHTML validation
There is a pragmatic problem with strict XHTML validation (well, several,but I'm only going to pick on one right now). It goes like this:
Strict XHTML validation in the browser clearly punishes users . If there is more than a trace amount ofactual XHTML problems, this means that not doing strict validation issignificantly more user friendly and thus a significant advantage forany browser that is not XHTML strict.
Given that you are punishing people by failing strictly, you areeffectively engaged in a giant game
歲月無聲
這幾天開始認真執拾辦公室的東西
包括早年購置數量不少的參考書
還有各種與我有關或無關的雜物
這個十二月當真十分特別
這種氣氛真的十分特別
對於公司的情況
我沒有多少意見
對於同事們的際遇
我也
真係頂唔順
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Two-step updates: the best solution to the valid XHTML problem
Let us suppose that you want to create an environment that insuresthat XHTML stays valid XHTML. The corollary of how validationfailures should punish the person actually responsible for them is that the site author should bepunished for invalid XHTML, and you need to punish them directly.
So let's make the web server itself validate your XHTML; if it's notvalid, it doesn't get served. Does this punish the site author? Notnecessarily, because in order for the site author to notice they have