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January 2006

Developing Ajax Applications That Preserve Standard Browser Functionality

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a few critical voices have pointed out that Ajax applications break several important browser features, including support for the back/forward button

June 2005

Robert’s talk » WYSIWYG Hell

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Something we really agreed on is the lack of respect CMS manufacturers show their clients when they create administrative interfaces that only work in IE on a PC. As if that wasn’t enough, their WYSIWYG editors generate terrible and invalid code that cannot be presented as strict HTML or XHTML. We’re talking about editors that generate deprecated tags, upper-case tags, attribute values without quotes, invalid attributes and so on. Basically, worthless code that also (as to top it off) isn’t well-formed, hence impossible to use in a stricter XHTML/XML scenario.