28Oct 2010 by Ruben Canton No Comments

Birth, life and death of XHTML

Web standards
Before XHTML was the egg, no no, the chicken, well ok it was HTML 4.01. HTML was good, flexible, practical, allowed developers to do many things (and to not closing them), and despite its shortcomings we were happy, web developers used the font tag to apply styles and web browsers interpreted what they wanted. But then a new technology arrived, XML, allowing to create your own markup language, which means that you can create your own HTML (HTML is a programming language that works with labels, so that if I put a text between the labels <b> and </b> it will appear in bold). With XML you could make your own and custom HTML, with the tags that pleased you, you might even have HTML in Spanish! <negrita>esto está en…
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07Sep 2010 by Ruben Canton 1 Comment

How to throw a pop-up properly with Javascript

Web programming, Web standards
This is a translation from my original post in spanish. Hope you enjoy it! In some cases it can be useful for us and even more comfortable for the user to open a page in a pop-up on which to show the information. If we search in Google how to do it or read any javascript manual the code that will be shown its this one: [sourcecode language="js" wraplines="false"] window.open('url to open','window name','attribute1,attribute2') [/sourcecode] In fact, that code has some mistakes, lets see: Browsers without Javascript will cannot open the page. It will not be crawled correctly by searchers, and some crawlers, will not know how to follow it. When going over it with the mouse we will not see the url on our browser status bar. The user loses…
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