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Saturday, August 09, 2003

Using RSS in JSP

Java Net has an interesting piece on Using RSS in JSP which lead me to Informa, a RSS (Rich Site Summary) library for Java. Worth a look for learning and use in a furture revision of my Lotus Notes News Reader.

Friday, August 08, 2003

What is Fahrner Image Replacement technique, and why you should care

Russell Beattie talks about the huge increase in power behind the combination of XHTML+CSS (I agree), with links to an article In Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR is a CSS-based background image replacement technique, i didn't know that either!) by Vancouver's Dave Shea of www.mezzoblue.com fame.

A a demo of what is possible look at css Zen Garden a demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS–based design, by selecting any style sheet from the list to load it into this page. Quite stunning