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goer.org
Personal blog · goer.org/Journalprogrammingweb
goer.org is a personal blog at goer.org about programming and web. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its HTML Horror page, a collection of old, badly built web markup, cited for blink tags and SHTML quirks. One commenter calls it an "oldie but goodie".
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-07-06
What Hacker News says?
This should be the companion reader to the HTML Horror page[1] Speaking of SHTML... has anyone else always read it as "shitmail" in their head? [1] http://www.goer.org/htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
Comment linking /htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
on “Only 90s Web Developers Remember This”Submitted Things that go blink in the night : A horror tale in html as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe problem with XHTML is that the "abort on parse failure" behaviour simplifies a computer science problem at the expense of creating a business problem; now if you have an error somewhere in your content generation pipeline it means that the site goes down. That's a pretty difficult tradeoff given that most CMS are absoutely not designed in a way that ensures well formed markup. Back in the dim and distant past wh…
Comment linking /Journal/2003/04/the_xhtml_100.html
on “DOMPurify bypass: XSS via HTML namespace confusion”Submitted Npm 3’s Flatter Module Tree Makes Babel Much, Much Faster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis page has blink tags, but oddly/sensibly they don't seem to work on my version of Chromium: http://www.goer.org/htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
Comment linking /htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
on “The Origin of the <blink> Tag”Submitted XML: Not great for documents, actually as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm reminded of this oldie but goodie: http://www.goer.org/htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
Comment linking /htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html
on “Did we reached webdesign's coolness boundaries?”Well, the classic example is XML + rules about character encoding. Suppose I send you an XHTML document, and I'm a good little XML citizen and in my XML prolog I mention that I've encoded the document UTF-8. And let's say I'm also taking advantage of this -- there are some characters in this document that aren't in ASCII. So I send it to you over HTTP, and whatever you're using on the other end -- web browser, scrap…
Comment linking /Journal/2003/04/the_xhtml_100.html
on “W3C Approves RDFa 1.1 for HTML5”HTML was originally formalized on top of SGML, and in a way which was permissive (SGML allowed this, because it was supposed to be a flexible generic way to specify markup languages). This meant, for example, that you could omit closing tags for many elements, and something that processed HTML was supposed to know the rules for when and where to infer the existence of a closing tag. There were also whole elements wh…
Comment linking /Journal/2003/04/the_xhtml_100.html
on “Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?”