you'll find the notes to my recent presentation on AJAX and forms to the New York Web Standards Meetup Group as well as a Safari CSS hack that I made use of the other day.

A friend of mine who supports IE and detests FF sent in the following link, Firefox Myths, which opens as follows:

"Myth (Definition)—'A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology.'
While Firefox is a decent Web Browser, there are numerous Myths floating around the Internet regarding it. Hopefully this site will debunk some of these.

"We have all seen these banners before or heard people say 'Firefox is Faster, Firefox has Lower Requirements, Firefox is Secure, Firefox defends me from all Spyware, etc.' How misleading is it? Read on."

While I like and stand by Firefox, this is a great site [though sometimes painful], because it provides examples and sources for all of its claims. Anyone who uses Firefox and preaches about it [i.e. people like me] should read these myths and remember [a] open source doesn't automatically mean good and [b] don't believe the hype. The labs are about the facts.

schiller labs is powered by WordPress 2.0.2. The current version is 2.0.3, but we've been too lazy to upgrade. We find the following plugins extremely useful:

• Akismet 1.14—Antispam plugin. Part of the default WordPress installation, but you'll need to get an API key to use the service. Acquiring a key is easy and free.
• Bad Behavior 1.2.4—Antispam plugin. Current version is 2.0.2.
• Dagon Design Sitemap Generator 2.6—Generates customizable sitemap containing all posts and pages.
• Geo 1.9.2—Attaches geographic coordinate information to posts. The original version is here, but our version outputs a GeoRSS feed in the GML encoding.
• runPHP 2.1b—Only way to run PHP code in a post.
• SearchPages 0.1—Forces search queries to look at pages and posts instead of only posts.
• Text Control 2.0b1—Total control of how the blog formats text. Primary use: enables JavaScript in a post.
• WordPress Database Backup 1.7—Part of the default WordPress installation. Will need to make the wp-content directory writable for it to work, though.

Akira says… we've been doing it wrong. The prime symbol (') shouldn't be used to create the possessive nor should the double prime (") be used for quotes.

While this is useful information to know and we freely admit our error, we're still committed to the prime and double-prime, because we think the apostrophe and double quotes look stupid.

For more character codes, view our reference table.

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is an Internet standard for describing message content types. MIME messages can contain text, images, audio, video, and other application-specific data.

A table of MIME types/subtypes and extensions can be found in the Bestiary.