If you must use Internet Explorer, please, please, please, turn off all scripting, Java and ActiveX support. Learning how to restrict security in Internet Explorer is easy. Once you turn off all JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX and Java support, 99% of all worms, trojans, phishing schemes and other parasites that rely on Internet Explorer (Or any [...]
So in relation to my earlier post about XHTML, yesterday I was reading what Jacques Distler had to offer for justifications for serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml. But it’s easy for him–many of his entries serve up MathML. Unlike him, I am only humble ex-physics major but, I’ll use any excuse to justify learning something useless. [...]
Nearly three years ago I converted all the markup on this site from strict HTML 4 to strict XHTML 1. Fairly soon after this, I discovered that, to be kosher, I had serve this with the MIME format set to “application/xhtml-xml.” For a long time I ignored this, noting that I could get away with [...]