Month: December 2002

pb implemented PGP/GPG signing into his commenting system. I had mentioned doing this before, somewhere, on somebody’s site, not that I can remember where, but I think it’s a good idea. Perhaps at some point in the future when using public key encryption is easy enough for Mom do to, this will catch on.

As it is though, his system is well done, and not at all intrusive to people who don’t know squat about digital signatures. Does anyone besides me want to see a <link rel="publickey"…> tag?

Now, with XHTML/CSS, it’s the World Wide Web Consortium! See the W3C Home Page Table-less Layout: HOWTO and FAQ for more information.

They’re planning a holiday luncheon at the office. The note says they’ll have turkey and roast beef, and you should specify which one you want. What, no Tofurkey?

Sigh, it’s sad, but many parts of the world still aren’t sensitive to the needs of the non-meat eater. Even Google, when queried about Tofurkey asks if you meant to look for ‘Turkey’ argh…

Structured Content: What’s in it for Writers? takes a look at those pesky writers and their relation to Content Management Systems.

Here’s some of the good stuff:

• Writers will use any tool that makes their task easier
• Very few people are willing to change the way they work in order to make somebody else’s life easier
• Writers usually lack the context to understand the structures they are asked to produce
• Some content contributors will be willing to create structured information and other will not

I really need to take a look at HTML Tidy again. I’d like to use it as a CMS add-on, to clean up incoming content…