HTML quickies
Posted by mop Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:47:00 GMT
Some clever solutions to file for a rainy day...
Javascript popup object
Matt Kruse seems to have done a good job creating a flexible Javascript object for browser popups. It support tool-tip style boxes, as well as traditional pop-up windows.
Norm Walsh, the don of DocBook, mentioned Matt’s work in his discussion of DocBook annotations.
Tag Soup
John Cowan wrote a SAX compatible parser for ’nasty and brutish’ HTML, called Tag Soup. This lenient parser takes poorly formatted HTML snippets and parses them into a valid tree. Seems like a must-have for any web application that allows users to enter HTML mark-up.
Norm Walsh uses Tag Soup to parse comments authored by visitors to his blog. Interesting that even the comments to Norm’s blog are syndicated.
