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IPv6 validation - more caveats
Last week I was taking a nice hot bath while reading the Regular Expression Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan. Really, there is no better way of relaxing 
But then chapter 7.17 made me jump out of the tub, rush to my computer, and - while still wet - start typing the regular expression printed on page 387. The chapter was called 'Matching IPv6 Addresses'.
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But then chapter 7.17 made me jump out of the tub, rush to my computer, and - while still wet - start typing the regular expression printed on page 387. The chapter was called 'Matching IPv6 Addresses'.Read more »
IPv6 validation (and caveats)
Recently we got a request to also match IPv6 addresses as a host-part for our auto-links. Basically this seemed pretty straight-forward, but it proved that actually validating an IPv6 address is quite difficult.
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IE8's standards compatibility promise
Some time ago Microsoft made a 180 turn on their decision to make IE7 rendering mode the default for IE8. This seemed to be a commitment to standards compliance which gained them renewed trust from a lot of parties. But now that IE8's appearance is near, how do they keep up to that promise?
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AdBlock sucks!
Not only does it deprive legitimate businesses from their primary source of income, it also puts a burden on development teams because of the number of false bug reports when some user was blocking a little too much.
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The versioning switch's default is incorrect
In fact, the whole versioning switch idea is bad to begin with. If you still don't understand why after my previous blog-entries and after having read for instance Jeremy Keith's reasoning on AListApart (and failed to see the flaws in Jeffrey Zeldman's entry) here's a break-down of the arguments against the versioning switch and against the proposed default (== IE7 mode):
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