http://tc.eserver.org/authors/Eisenberg,_J._David A bibliography of works by Eisenberg, J. David in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Eisenberg,_J._David http://tc.eserver.org/35164.html http://tc.eserver.org/35164.html Ready or not, here it comes. Despite the confusion surrounding its evolution, real-world HTML 5 is right around the corner. Longtime ALA contributor J. David Eisenberg returns to get us all up to speed on the markup we’re about to be writing. http://tc.eserver.org/35165.html http://tc.eserver.org/35165.html In his article in this issue, Peter-Paul Koch proposes adding custom attributes to form elements to allow triggers for specialized behaviors. The W3C validator won’t validate a document with these attributes, as they aren’t part of the XHTML specification. This article will show you how to create a custom DTD that will add those custom attributes, and will show you how to validate documents that use those new attributes. http://tc.eserver.org/35166.html http://tc.eserver.org/35166.html The reason that we use XML instead of a specific application is that XML is not just a pretty face, living in isolation from the rest of the computing world. XML is more than a rulebook for generating custom markup languages. It is part of a family of technologies, which, working together, make your XML-based documents very useful indeed. To demonstrate what I mean, I decided to create a new XML-based markup language from scratch, and show what you can do with a document written in that language, using off-the-shelf tools. http://tc.eserver.org/35167.html http://tc.eserver.org/35167.html If you’re working with the latest technology, there may not be any user reference material at all; the only documentation available is the specification. In such a case, learning to read the spec is a necessity, not a luxury. http://tc.eserver.org/27706.html http://tc.eserver.org/27706.html There has been a lot of attention to the legal encumbrances in Microsoft's new MS XML format. In this article we'll look at the technical side, and try to show you how the design of these formats affect interoperability. After all, that is the purpose of open standards. http://tc.eserver.org/25260.html http://tc.eserver.org/25260.html This article will show you how to create a custom DTD that will add custom attributes, and will also show you how to validate documents that use those new attributes. http://tc.eserver.org/20254.html http://tc.eserver.org/20254.html The Internet is not the World Wide Web. So what exactly lies beyond the browser? Eisenberg fearlessly predicts technologies to watch. http://tc.eserver.org/20257.html http://tc.eserver.org/20257.html Be a code wizard … or, just look like one. In Part 3 of the DOM Design Tricks tutorial series, Eisenberg shows us how to dynamically change text on a page. The theory, examples, and scripts will work in Mozilla and IE5. http://tc.eserver.org/20253.html http://tc.eserver.org/20253.html XML does not come with a spell checker, and will not work if written improperly. Eisenberg teaches you two nifty ways to validate your XML. http://tc.eserver.org/20234.html http://tc.eserver.org/20234.html Although they appear maddeningly incomprehensible at first, W3C specifications are actually great sources of information, once you understand their secrets. Learn how to read the specs. http://tc.eserver.org/13586.html http://tc.eserver.org/13586.html XML is not just a pretty face, living in isolation from the rest of the computing world. XML is more than a rulebook for generating custom markup languages. It is part of a family of technologies, which, working together, make your XML-based documents very useful indeed. http://tc.eserver.org/13221.html http://tc.eserver.org/13221.html XSLT, the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation, can convert your XML data to HTML and other friendly formats. Introduce yourself to this snazzy technology. http://tc.eserver.org/10207.html http://tc.eserver.org/10207.html Current browsers are very forgiving; they quietly correct or gloss over many common HTML errors. This makes it easy for people to experience the joy of creating their own web pages with a minimum of frustration—if a page displays correctly, then it's “right.” Unfortunately, by hiding the need for structure that the web will require as it moves towards XHTML and XML, these forgiving browsers have helped create a world of structural HTML illiterates. As long as browsers continue to parse and display HTML that isn't well-formed or valid, we will never learn the right ways, and we will never get to a structural web.