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		<title>Jens O. Meiert · Blog</title>
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		<description>Jens O. Meiert (Google, W3C, O’Reilly) on professional web design, web development, accessibility, and usability. Researching and documenting what makes the perfect website since 1999.</description>
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		<copyright>Copyright 2000-2012 Jens O. Meiert.</copyright>
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			<title>Jens O. Meiert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>On&#160;Maintainability</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20120131/on-maintainability/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[To make this a little story, for a long time in my career I wasn’t very concerned about maintainability. I was maintaining projects but didn’t really have an idea about whether what I maintained was actually effective to maintain. I got a sense that things weren’t quite right&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>window.scrollTo() or: When to Stay Clear of User&#160;Agents</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20120124/staying-clear-of-user-agents/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20120124/staying-clear-of-user-agents/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Usability</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[If you were to ask me whether you as a web designer or developer should tackle user agent issues, my answer was “no.” It’s not your responsibility. You may lack important insight into decisions made on the user agent side. You’re going to inherit technical debt.&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>My Year in Activities,&#160;2011</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20111231/year-in-activities-2011/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20111231/year-in-activities-2011/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Or: 43 things that make someone who has no idea about anything he’s doing look like he knows everything, the 2011 edition.]]></description>
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			<title>On Semantics in&#160;HTML</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20111026/on-semantics-in-html/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20111026/on-semantics-in-html/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[As web developers we like to talk about “semantic markup,” a somehow inaccurate short form for “markup that is meaningful and used how it’s supposed to be used.” But where is all that meaning coming from? Let’s take a look.]]></description>
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			<title>Help Lower the Cost of CSS&#160;Validation</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110922/cost-of-css-validation/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110922/cost-of-css-validation/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Validation is a baseline quality attribute. I have emphasized this in the past and recently shared a bit more about the reasons and how you can use validation on Google’s Webmaster Central blog. There are several things you can validate, way beyond HTML and CSS&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>CSS: On Risk-Taking, Mirroring, Layouts, Resets, and&#160;Hacks</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110824/css-on-risk-taking-mirroring-layouts-resets-and-hacks/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110824/css-on-risk-taking-mirroring-layouts-resets-and-hacks/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[A collection of CSS-related posts I published on Google+. I don’t exactly know how to deal with those yet.]]></description>
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			<title>Opinions</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110622/opinions/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110622/opinions/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Everybody is entitled to an opinion but opinions are weak when they are not based on facts or arguments. Debates can only be resolved by presenting sound arguments with supporting evidence&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>Print CSS, Showing URLs,&#160;Caution</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110614/urls-in-print/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110614/urls-in-print/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Design</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Print style sheets are awesome and easy to write. Site owners and developers caring about print typically have a feel for what to do. Alas there’s one thing that’s getting done rather the wrong than in any right way&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>Web Development Principles: Develop for What Is, Not What Could&#160;Be</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110607/develop-for-what-is/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110607/develop-for-what-is/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[For any given project, web developers fare best when focusing on what is, not what could be. To fend off the first misunderstandings, that focus includes what will be&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>Exposing Reset Style&#160;Sheets</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110515/exposing-reset-style-sheets/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110515/exposing-reset-style-sheets/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 01:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[A cute Chrome extension to indicate CSS misconceptions.]]></description>
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			<title>Driving: Tips and&#160;Thoughts</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110511/driving-tips-and-thoughts/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110511/driving-tips-and-thoughts/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 16:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[It was about time for a heart-warming, loving, helpful post about driving.]]></description>
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			<title>On Correct&#160;Punctuation</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110407/on-correct-punctuation/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110407/on-correct-punctuation/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Design</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Let’s speak the unspeakable: correct punctuation, here referring to the use of the correct characters for quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, and ellipses, will forever remain a dream online&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>HTML, @width, and&#160;@height</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110217/html-width-and-height/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110217/html-width-and-height/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[As the width and height attributes are to remain part of HTML, try to limit their use. The reason to avoid @width and @height is that they have to be considered presentational and hence constitute potential maintainability issues&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>CSS Validation Will Soon Be More&#160;Realistic</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110125/realistic-css-validation/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20110125/realistic-css-validation/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[A brief update on making use of vendor-specific CSS extensions warnings, not errors: the development version of the CSS validator contains an update that doesn’t penalize for use of such extensions&#160;…]]></description>
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			<title>My Year in Activities,&#160;2010</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20101230/year-in-activities-2010/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20101230/year-in-activities-2010/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[31 activities, 0 vacation days*. Mr Meiert’s guide on how to make good use of your time and make 1 year feel like 3.]]></description>
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			<title>Testing Tricks: CSS&#160;Bookmarklets</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20101229/css-bookmarklets/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20101229/css-bookmarklets/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[On complex development environments and CSS bookmarklets as a testing complement. Complement as in you’ve done everything you can but want to err on the safe side.]]></description>
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			<title>One Photo: Reset Style&#160;Sheets</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20101224/one-photo-reset-style-sheets/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20101224/one-photo-reset-style-sheets/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 02:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[It never gets boring.]]></description>
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			<title>The Secret of Web&#160;Development</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20101027/the-secret-of-web-development/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20101027/the-secret-of-web-development/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Interlude.]]></description>
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			<title>CSS: How to Host Right-to-Left&#160;Styling</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20100930/css-how-to-host-right-to-left-styling/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20100930/css-how-to-host-right-to-left-styling/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[For international projects, don’t use separate style sheets for right-to-left (RTL) styling: use natural (@dir) or artificial (@id, @class) hooks instead. The only exception are unbearable performance issues due to hundreds of RTL rules …]]></description>
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			<title>Teamwork, Democracy, and&#160;Decisions</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20100907/teamwork-democracy-and-decisions/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20100907/teamwork-democracy-and-decisions/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens O. Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[As great as democracy is to prevent negative outcomes, as unsuitable is it to achieve “best” outcomes. Scrapping fifteen drafts here are two suggestions to achieve better results in group settings&#160;…]]></description>
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