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	<title>CSS, JavaScript and XHTML Explained</title>
	<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog</link>
	<description>Quirks, random thoughts and funky finds discovered in day-to-day coding.</description>
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		<title>ARIA: Accessible Rich Internet Applications basics</title>
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Note: This blog is still in development, but it&#8217;s come a long way, and it is likely already a bit helpful. I will be adding more example snippets and more about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2008/03/aria-accessible-rich-internet-applications-basics/</link>
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		<title>IE8 CSS Support: Internet Explorer 8 and CSS 3</title>
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IE8 Beta has been released. And, no, it still doesn&#8217;t support CSS3 selecteors. 
Below are the various CSS selectors, including CSS3 selectors, and current browser support.  Green / &#8730; means current support. Orange / &#916; means that the browsers have some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2008/03/ie8-css-support-internet-explorer-8-and-css-3/</link>
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		<title>Using images as Bullets in XHTML Lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creating lists with Images as Bullets using CSS 
All CSS compliant browsers and IE support images as a list style type. Most designers actually prefer to use images instead of default bullet support because there is more control and more consistency in appearance across different browsers. 
While the general idea should be very simple, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/10/using-images-as-bullets-in-xhtml-lists/</link>
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		<title>Yet Another Image Replacement Method</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Semantic CSS Image Replacement
Yes,  &#34;YAIRM&#34; (&#34;Yet Another Image Replacement Method&#34;) is a crappy acronym.  Anyhow&#8230;. 
There have been several image replacement suggestions made over the past 5 years. Semantically, some just don&#8217;t make sense. Of course, the accessibility of your image replacement method and the semantic &#34;correctness&#34; has to do with how you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/09/css-image-replacement-method/</link>
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		<title>Favicons: why and how to create favicons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The &#34;WHY&#34; of Favicons
Favicons ARE an integral part of your website and branding.
Favicons are the single most important graphic appearing on a website. While that sounds like a strong statement, it&#8217;s true. Favicons are the least expensive and most overlooked visual branding opportunity. 
Favicons are the 16 x 16 pixel images that show up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/09/favicons-why-and-how-to-create-favicons/</link>
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		<title>Alternative Text for Images: the ALT attribute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a webpage to validate and be accessible, all images must have a value for the alt attribute, even if that value is empty. The XHTML DTD requires only two atttributes for the img element: src and alt. The XHTML DTD tells you it needs to be there. WCAG tells you a bit more about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/08/alternitive-text-for-images-the-alt-attribute/</link>
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		<title>CSS &#38; Javascript Character Entity Calculator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Javascript and CSS Entity Conversion Calculator
Enter your HTML Entity Character number  (such as &#38;#2335 or just 2335 - &#2335;) to get the CSS and JS values for that entity. Explanations on how to use the results are below.

Numeric Value (Decimal)
 
CSS Value (Hex)


JS Value (Hex)
 
 (open in new window). named entities &#124; numeric [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/08/css-javascript-character-entities/</link>
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		<title>First 5800 Numeric HTML Character Entities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First 5800 Numeric HTML Character Entities
Below are left-to-right entities (Hebrew and Arabic were removed).  To learn how to include the entities below in CSS or Javascript, please read visit Javascript, CSS, and (X)HTML entities in numeric order or convert is with the javascript and CSS entity calculator.

&#38;#11; = &#11;
&#38;#12; =&#12;
&#38;#32; = &#32;
&#38;#33; = &#33;
&#38;#34; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/08/first-5800-numeric-html-character-entities/</link>
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		<title>ISO 8601 date in PHP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Converting ISO 8601 date string in PHP
JavaScript Date Object explained how to convert ISO 8601 dates in Javascript.  Thanks to Ryan Kennedy, we have a function to convert ISO 8601 dates in PHP.
This is how you can call the function:
$theDateFormattedMyWay = date("F j, Y", parse_datetime($ISO8601_formate_date]));
For other possible formats, please visit: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php.
You need to then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/08/converting-iso-8601-date-in-php/</link>
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		<title>JavaScript Date Object</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Javascript: Things you should know
Note: This is part IV of a &#34;Javascript: Things you should know&#34; series. I assume readers have an understanding of the core language. This section goes over the creation of date objects. Most resources go over creating a current time date object.  This goes over the rest. The previous entry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/07/javascript-date-object/</link>
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