Announcement!

Aractus 09, December, 2020

There are some major changes to the blog I think everyone will like. Firstly, almost all content on the blog is now under a CC-BY-SA AU 3.0 copyright license (essentially the same license used by Wikipedia). Please read my new Copryright Policy in full. Note it doesn’t cover my theme, any media, or blog comments. […]

ClassicPress

Aractus 12, March, 2019

My blog is now running on ClassicPress not Wordpress. I know what you’re thinking – it’s stupid to be an early adopter. Well, I’m going to flip that and propose that it’s stupid to be a late adopter. See what’s happened over the past 10 years is there has been a very strong shift away […]

Why websites need to STOP overusing Javascript

Aractus 04, August, 2018

When I created my blog’s redesign I was originally not intending to use any Javascript. Well other than the break-out-of frames script that I’ve always used, and the inline scripting that Wordpress inserts here and there. Notice I actually do not use the wp_head() function. However, I use some scripting, although not very much hence […]

The Web’s Dirty Little Secret: Why websites should use HTML 4.01 and not XHTML.

Aractus 21, June, 2010

Ask any Joe-Doe what a website is, and he’ll say “why it’s a resource filled with H.T.M.L. thingies those Hyper-Text Markup Language text-documents, and H.T.M.L. is what makes it look like more then just plain text, and they’re sitting on a server and the server sends those H.T.M.L. thingies to Internet Explorer what then displays […]