(Untitled)- June 14, 2002 Deterioration at Amazon The customer reviews at Amazon have been one of the unexpected successes of the web for me, because I had no idea that I would find strangers' opinions so useful. I have come to rely on them. So it's sad to read stuff like this (along with a rating of 5 stars): Haven't yet received the book (...) but judging by the cover it is going to be an excellent and helpful tome. The saddest part is that 11 out of 56 people found that review helpful. And this, for the same...http://radio.weblogs.com/0104841/2002/06/14.html#a86 (Untitled)- June 6, 2002 A moment of XSLT clarity from the most incredibly useful mailing list I've ever used: I understand that the value of a variable cannot be modified once it has been assigned, but is it possible to allocate a global variable at the start of a stylesheet and then assign it a value at a later time, such as within a named template No, it isn't possible. You need to stop thinking sequentially. There is no such thing as "a later time" in XSLT. Michael Kayhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0104841/2002/06/05.html#a85 (Untitled)- June 5, 2002 Including the same JavaScript file on the client and the server I've often been frustrated that there is no simple way to include a file of JavaScript functions on the server (ASP) and the client (the browser). I have a whole library of functions that convert, format, process and otherwise stretch and squeeze dates, strings, and xml documents. I keep copying code from a server-only file to a client-only file or vice versa. So today I finally fixed the problem by writing a function (to be...http://radio.weblogs.com/0104841/2002/06/05.html#a84 (Untitled)- June 5, 2002 A good article (as usual) from Zeldman on DOCTYPES. In case anyone else uses UltraEdit, here's my taglist for all seven doctypes (remove the linebreaks when you paste it into your taglist.txt): Tag Group - DOCTYPES 0="HTML 4.01 Strict :UEDS:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-W3CDTD HTML 4.01EN" "http:www.w3.orgTRhtml4strict.dtd"> ... " 1="HTML 4.01 Transitional :UEDS:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-W3CDTD HTML 4.01 TransitionalEN" "http:www.w3.orgTRhtml4loose.dtd"> ... " 2="HTML 4.01 Frameset...http://radio.weblogs.com/0104841/2002/06/05.html#a83 |