Internet Explorer and Forms

I ran across this little quirk with Internet Explorer the other day. It appears that when a form is submitted by actually clicking the submit button, an element in the PHP array $_POST is created for the button. Simple enough, right? Well I noticed that when the form was submitted by pressing the Enter key instead of clicking the submit button, an element in the $_POST array was not created for the button. It’s not an exceptionally large quirk, but definitely caused me to rethink my form submission checking. Firefox and Safari created the array element for the button regardless of how the form was submitted.. This occured with Internet Explorer 6.0 and PHP version 5.0.3

Tags: Internet Explorer, PHP, forms

New Layout

If you hadn’t noticed yet. I did a little redesign. I know its not much but atleast now it’s Valid Markup. Having only a Windows machine, I’m unable to test on some browsers. If you own a mac, please let me know of any bugs or quirks you run across along with what browser you were using.

Why Use Web Standards?

I came across this article over at 456 Berea Street. It’s entitled Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards. It is defnitely worth a read. Now I finally have more than just a handful of rebuttals for my next web standards debate. I find myself invovled in, if not instegating, that argument more and more these days.

Ten Reasons to Learn and Use Web Standards

Tags: web standards, usability

Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) from Microsoft

Microsoft introduced a new specification that extends RSS. It’s called SSE and I’m not the first one to blog about it.

Exactly what it does (Microsoft):

SSE could be used to share your work calendar with your spouse. If your calendar were published to an SSE feed, changes to your work calendar could be replicated to your spouse’s calendar, and vice versa. As a result, your spouse could see your work schedule and add new appointments, such as a parent-teacher meeting at the school, or a doctor’s appointment.

This extension of RSS has some great potential. Expect to see some great new web services and updates to old ones.

Tags: Microsoft, SSE, RSS, Simple Sharing Extensions