De zakkenvullers van deze tijd 
De laatste tijd hoor je steeds vaker negatieve verhalen over allerlei financiële produkten. Produkten die bedoelt zijn om op termijn rendement op te leveren om zodoende bijvoorbeeld je hypotheek af te kunnen lossen of voor je oude-dag voorziening. Deze produkten worden je aangeraden boven 'gewoon' sparen omdat het meer op zou leveren en het belastingtechnisch voordeliger zou zijn. Waarom krijg ik daar nu een heel ander idee over nu ik voor het eerst een volledige specificatie krijg van mijn aanvullend pensioen en zie dat van mijn premie maar liefst 37% opgaat aan 'kosten'?
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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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Some thoughts on HTML5's getElementsByClassName
HTML5 will bring us some really cool things, not only in terms of new markup features but also in terms of extended features for forms and a very handy DOM extension in the form of a native (and thus lightning fast) getElementsByClassName method.
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The road to HTML5: conformance of HTML4 documents
Recently I ran the Tweakers.net frontpage through the (experimental) HTML5 validator (by Henri Sivonen) to see how well we are being forwards-compatible. The result wasn't too bad, just 13 errors.
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Using the HTML5 doctype prematurely "considered harmful"
There has been a lot of fuss around Microsoft's ludicrous idea of freezing IE into IE7's quirksmode rendering for the (un)foreseeable future unless you specify some proprietary meta-tag in all your documents. There was however a tiny shimmer of good faith in this huge anti-competitive move when Chris Wilson, MSIE's productmanager, offered that this lock-in might not affect documents using some new doctype or mimetype that is currently unsupported by IE.
By the way, the "considered harmful" in the title is intentional even though it has been abused as a populistic phrase throughout the years: it seems fitting since no one less than Eric Meyer once wrote an essay on the subject of why "considered harmful" can be considered harmful by itself
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By the way, the "considered harmful" in the title is intentional even though it has been abused as a populistic phrase throughout the years: it seems fitting since no one less than Eric Meyer once wrote an essay on the subject of why "considered harmful" can be considered harmful by itself
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