Xah Web Dev Articles

Adding Widgets

• Adding Google Custom Search Widget
• Adding Web Share Widgets to Your Site
• How to Add a Comment System to Website
• Disqus JavaScript Code
• Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code
• Syntax Coloring with Google-Code-Prettify

• How to Create and Update a Sitewide Logo (Favicon)
• Blocking Image Leechers in Apache

• Google Webfont Tutorial

Video

• Using iframe to Embed Youtube Videos
• HTML5 Video Example
• How to Embed Video with Valid HTML
• Intro to Video Streaming ＆ Codecs
• How to View Comments in JPEG, PNG, MP3 files?
• Software for Video Capture and Screencasting

Info for Webmaster

• Web Tech Stats 2010
• Website And Domain Lookup Tools
• The Journey of a Foreign Character thru Internet
• Web Browser Market Share 2010-02
• How to Enable HTTP Server gzip Compression

For Programers

• Atom Webfeed Basics
• Emacs HTML Tips
• Batch Check HTML File Size
• URL Percent Encoding and Ampersand Char
• URL Percent Encoding and Unicode
• “Zen-Coding” and “Emacs-Buddha-Coding”

browser user tips

• How to Change Firefox Mouse Wheel Scroll Speed?
• How to Disable {Java, JavaScript, Flash} in Web Browsers
• Restore Last Session in IE, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera
• Firefox: How to Disable Auto-Hide Forward Button
• How to Edit Firefox Bookmarks in Text Editor
• Customize Internet Explorer 9 (IE9): Menu, Tabs in Separate Row
• How to Clear or Set Proxy in Firefox and IE
• How to Delete Flash Cookies
• Using Google Chrome Sync Feature and View Your Account Info on Google
• Web Browser Tab Management: One Hundred Tabs Open in Browser?
• Opera Pain; Opera Browser Problems

Web Browsers Behavior

• Google Chrome, SPDY Protocol, Browser War II
• Safari “.webloc” File is Using Mac Resource Fork
• IE9 Went into Compatibility Mode; Renderer Crash
• Web Browsers Unicode Support; Firefox 4 Sucks?
• wow, Konqueror Sucks Major A.
• Unicode Character Equivalence Support in Web Browsers

Web Tech Opinions

• Anti-bot Test: CAPTCHA!
• What is HTML Microformat
• Keywords ＆ Taxonomy

Web Design

• Screen Density and Web Design Problems
• Fixed-Layout vs Flowed-Layout
• Web Design: Should Hyperlinks Have Underline?
• Web Design: Survey of Tab Style 2006
• Web Design: Say No to Gray Text on White Background
• Web Design 2012: Minimal Windows Width of Popular Sites
• User Interface Design: Peepshow Windows
• User Interface Design: Internet Explorer 9's Dysfunctional Colorful Tabs

HTML Correctness

• HTML Correctness and Validators
• Google ＆ Amazon Generate Invalid HTML
• How to Embed Video with Valid HTML
• Google Earth KML Validation F�ckup
• W3C HTML Validator Invalid
• Programing: GNU Texinfo Problems; Invalid HTML
• HTML5 Doctype, Validation, X-UA-Compatible, and Why Do I Hate Hackers
• HTML6: Your JSON and SXML Simplified
• HTML5 Killed the ‹big› Tag?!

Misc, Unsorted

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Tech and Browser Timeline
• Google URL Shortening Service URL Format
• URL Shortening is BAD
• Internet, Future, Old School Net Lingoes
• Browser Support of HTML “q” Tag for Quotation
• HTML {html, head, body} Tags are Optional
• Google HTML/CSS Style Guide
• Emerging Web Tech: Web Intents

• Interesting Web Tech Related Articles

HTML CSS Browser Behavior Problems

• The Problems with CSS
• What's a Letter in CSS's first-letter Pseudo-element?
• CSS's “ex” Width In Different Browsers
• CSS “pre” Problem: No Linebreak After Tag

HTML5

• HTML5 Tags
• HTML5 Canvas vs SVG
• JavaScript Execution Order; HTML5 Asynchronous JavaScript
• HTML5 Video Example
• HTML5 “figure” ＆ “figurecaption” Tags Browser Support