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		<title>Jens Meiert – Blog</title>
		<link>http://meiert.com/en</link>
		<description>Jens Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and describing what makes the perfect website since 1999.</description>
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		<copyright>Copyright 2000-2009 Jens Meiert.</copyright>
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			<title>Jens Meiert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>handheld Media Type,&#160;RIP?</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090630/handheld-media-type-rip/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Website authors don’t use handheld as it’s barely supported; mobile device suppliers don’t support handheld because it’s barely used. This is kind of the situation I think we’re facing, and it’s problematic …]]></description>
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			<title>Let’s Make The Web&#160;Faster</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090624/lets-make-the-web-faster/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090624/lets-make-the-web-faster/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Two weeks after my last outcry regarding slowness on the web there’s the more proactive response: Google launched code.google.com/speed, nicely labeled “let’s make the web faster”&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>Maintainability Guide&#160;(Beta)</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090617/maintainability-guide/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090617/maintainability-guide/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Maintainability is important in order to deal with change. Good maintainability makes change easier yet avoids change that is not necessary, and good maintainability also makes change more affordable …]]></description>
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			<title>Intermission:&#160;Speed</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090610/intermission-speed/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090610/intermission-speed/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[“The size of the average web page has more than tripled since 2003. From 2003 to 2008 the average web page grew from 93.7 KB to over 312 KB, some 233 %. During the same five-year period, the number of objects in the average web page …”]]></description>
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			<title>Punctuation Cheat&#160;Sheet</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090603/punctuation-cheat-sheet/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090603/punctuation-cheat-sheet/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Design</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Working with and localizing international sites means an interesting challenge, not just for right-to-left contents. Typographically, there are differences between many locales. To get punctuation right I’m using a simple aid that I like to finally share …]]></description>
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			<title>CSS: The Maintenance Issue #1 and How You Can Avoid&#160;It</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090527/css-maintenance-issue-1/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090527/css-maintenance-issue-1/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 21:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[The biggest – as most unnecessary – maintenance issue in web development is, as my recent research shows, style sheet naming and integration. It might come surprising, but what happens in practice is that web developers do use inadvisable style sheet names and inadvisable ways to integrate  …]]></description>
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			<title>The Result of Maturity Is&#160;Simplicity</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090526/the-result-of-maturity/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090526/the-result-of-maturity/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 18:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Design</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[“Finally, it doesn’t lack some irony considering that web design gets often enough protected by the credo ‘the end justifies the means’ and pragmatism’s paid homage to. The question is whether you’re talking about sick, sanctimonious pragmatism or …”]]></description>
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			<title>What’s Going on in the Life of … Jens&#160;Meiert?</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090519/whats-going-on/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090519/whats-going-on/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[A quick update to avoid any more police calls.]]></description>
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			<title>How Much Intelligence Does Good Design Really&#160;Require?</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090428/intelligence-and-good-design/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090428/intelligence-and-good-design/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>Design</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Of the definitions for art, design, and decoration I published back in the days, I do believe in the statement that design works – or has to work, respectively – the most. However, one thing’s still challenging me, and that is how much intelligence good, working design requires …]]></description>
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			<title>Notes on XML, Elements, and&#160;Attributes</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090423/notes-on-xml-design/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090423/notes-on-xml-design/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Contrary to what one might expect, I’m not necessarily bringing in much XML design experience with my occasional contributions to the HTML 5 specification. However, the design of markup languages is something I consider beneficial for my job as a web professional as well …]]></description>
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			<title>Notes on&#160;Maintainability</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090414/notes-on-maintainability/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090414/notes-on-maintainability/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[To bridge Easter holidays and my upcoming trip to the W4A conference in Madrid, here are some small but mighty bits regarding maintenance and maintainability …]]></description>
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			<title>Why CSS Needs No&#160;Variables</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090401/why-css-needs-no-variables/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090401/why-css-needs-no-variables/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[No, this is not an April Fools’ joke: If you follow web development fora, magazines, blogs, and W3C’s www-style, CSS variables or constants seem to be one of the top features web developers are asking for. Following a concept written by Daniel Glazman and Apple’s Dave Hyatt …]]></description>
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			<title>The Stupidest Style Sheet Name&#160;Ever</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090325/stupidest-style-sheet-name/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090325/stupidest-style-sheet-name/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[This might irritate some people, however one of the last names you might want to pick for your style sheet is “style.css”. Why is “style.css” such an inadvisable CSS file name? The main reason’s maintenance. There’s quite some probability – and as we all know, web development is a lot about probability – …]]></description>
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			<title>CSS: Style the&#160;Non-Obvious</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090318/style-the-non-obvious/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090318/style-the-non-obvious/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[I struggled a bit to put this properly, yet writing about “styling the hidden” got inevitable: One of the qualities you have to acquire as a web developer is to see the non-obvious, and to use that skill to your and your code’s advantage …]]></description>
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			<title>Presenting … the Google&#160;Shoe</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090316/the-google-shoe/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090316/the-google-shoe/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[They finally arrived, long longed for Google shoes, in this case the “Google j9t” model based on the Adidas ZX700. They’re not for sale, however I might share the configuration I used to design them …]]></description>
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			<title>Performance of CSS Selectors is&#160;Irrelevant</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090312/performance-of-css-selectors/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090312/performance-of-css-selectors/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[… if you like to have a “black or white” interpretation of Steve Souders’ recent research. Currently we’ve still got few yet a few more numbers than before backing up what we always suspected, that merely optimizing selectors is kind of micro-optimization, micro-optimization that might …]]></description>
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			<title>Website Optimization Measures, Part&#160;VI</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090310/optimization-measures-6/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090310/optimization-measures-6/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>Design</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[In this episode: On the utilization of Google Friend Connect, maintenance of Google Analytics, sanity checks, type attributes, charset rules, cite elements, and ICRA labels. Fresh and sexy.]]></description>
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			<title>When to Separate Style&#160;Sheets</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090305/separate-style-sheets/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090305/separate-style-sheets/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Three factors influence whether or not it makes sense to use separate style sheets: Probability, meaning (aka semantics), and granularity. As I’m a bit thinking aloud, and as this is yet another guerrilla post ™, refinement of these thoughts might be pending …]]></description>
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			<title>Google Friend Connect: +10&#160;% Visits, +20&#160;%&#160;Pageviews?</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090228/friend-connect-visits-pageviews/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090228/friend-connect-visits-pageviews/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Marketing</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago I added Google Friend Connect to three of my sites (and shared some tips). Now I got curious and checked my Analytics accounts for any impact integration of Friend Connect could have had. It might have had, as merging the numbers of all three  …]]></description>
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			<title>Another Survey (Plus System Usability Scale&#160;Template)</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090225/another-survey-plus-sus-template/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090225/another-survey-plus-sus-template/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Usability</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[I’m doing it again; do you’ve got another 15 seconds to answer a couple of questions? Survey: How usable is meiert.com? I might return the favor then: The survey you filled out is based on the System Usability Scale (SUS) John Brooke presented in the 80s. Which means nothing less …]]></description>
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