I love how easily I can traverse an HTML document with jQuery, and I’d love to be able to do it in PHP. There are a few classes, but the PHP binding for Tidy seems to be where it’s at. The Zend dev pages make it look that way, anyway.

Posted March 3, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: dom, html, parse, php, Tidy, web development. 3 Comments.

HTML and PostScript are both page description languages, but one is designed to convey the look of the page, while the other to convey the meaning of its content.
pdf, html, semantics, meaning, page description language

Posted July 9, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: html, meaning, page description language, pdf, semantics. 2 Comments.

does anybody know a way make a reverse-ordered — think countdown — ordered list without resorting to non-semantic (though ingenious) css tricks?
ordered list, lists, html, semantic markup

Posted September 21, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Dispatches. Tags: html, lists, ordered list, semantic markup. One Comment.