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A nice spread of items gleaned over the last couple of weeks. Some XML, some PHP, a few CSS items, a long but interesting and funny article on the next instalment of the Browser wars (post Netscape), a Flash based UML diagram tool and, and, and…

  1. This article gives a good overview of using the exPat SAX parser with PHP. Part 2 if you are interested looks at XML parsing and PHP using the DOM
  2. PHP and Classes, which is another great article introducing the concepts of classes by way of a form validation example class.
  3. Superb CSS re-design for adaptive path. Douglas Bowman comments on his work.
  4. This was release on a list Apart some time ago:give your website a set of keyboard shortcuts.
  5. Adrian Holotavy’s blog entry for the re-design of a weather channels homepage using CSS. Absolutely beautiful and some neat little tricks.
  6. A great review of the browser wars and the future, some truly great insight into why things are the way they are with IE and the lack of CSS support. And a roadmap for the future…
  7. A windows port of Lynx the good ol’ text based browser. Love it, test your HTML sites in that and see if they work…
  8. The Economists style guide a damn good/useful read and it also points to George Orwell’s essay on politics and the English Language.
  9. An introduction to pull quotes, their possibilities, and heap of more detailed resources for using and implementing them. What’s a pull quote? Well go and have a read…
  10. A really cool Flash based UML diagram and documentation tool.
  11. From mezzoblue a link to another nifty site that helps you create colour schemes