Digital data is able to represent most media types, whether text, sound, image, moving image, or new media types such as hypertext or relational databases, in a unified way. In the end, everything is just a bit stream.

Support does not mean that everybody gets the same thing.

If you thought you had a reasonable amount of control over the color of your typography using CSS, you thought wrong.

Regardless of where they appear, string values in CSS behave in a similar way. The most important thing to remember about them is that they are not HTML.

One of the strategic decisions that you need to make when you create your Facebook application is deciding whether to use FBML or an IFrame for your canvas page.

Since microformats typically don’t try to solve specific cases for niche fields, RDFa picks up where microformats leave off by adding an open-ended mechanism for extending the semantics of markup without limitations from the host markup language itself.

One of the amazing things about the development of web technologies is that they were relatively anarchic.

Submit and Reset buttons should be easy to see, and should be close to their related form controls.

Most of the time, this order is the way we would want and expect the visitor to progress through the form, because that’s how the majority of the Western world reads.

The data-gathering capabilities of FQL are identical to many of the API calls. However, before dismissing FQL as redundant, it is important to recognize that FQL does have some notable advantages over API access to Facebook.