Hi guys, what's happening with CwS?

Good question! We were about to ask ourselves the same question. Even though Matthias came up with a new article today, we cannot deny that not much that has happened here in the past couple of months. We’re basically facing some descisions wether to leave CwS to die quietly, or to keep it alive …

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Pascal Opitz, Content with Style, 20 November 2007

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    20 Nov 07

    An image, a caption and the image credit. That can’t be hard to get the associations right, can it? Delve into the discussion about markup, semantics and microformats of a seemingly simple issue.

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    04 Jun 07

    In this article Pascal Opitz discusses the current way of rendering templates used in most MVC style rapid development frameworks.

  • CSS is Worthless by Mike Stenhouse

    30 May 06

    Almost all of the benefits people normally attribute to CSS are actually down to the underlying (X)HTML. The better your markup, the better sense machines will be able to make of it – that includes both screenreaders and search engine spiders.

  • Comments on Comments by Pascal Opitz

    11 Apr 06

    The right kind of comments to speed up the development process and enable a couple of interesting possibilities to generate documentations automatically. This article tries to reflect on the pros and cons of comments and to show some interesting possibilities for automatic comment parsing.

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