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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>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>2008 Retrospective, 2009&#160;Outlook</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090105/2008-2009/</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[As usual, a personal recap of last, a prognosis for next year.
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			<title>My Year in Cities,&#160;2008</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081231/year-in-cities-2008/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081231/year-in-cities-2008/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[As per Anne … I couldn’t resist.]]></description>
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			<title>Social&#160;Responsibility</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081224/social-responsibility/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081224/social-responsibility/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Politics</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Politically, there are several things which displease yet anger me, including critical trends like the desire to sacrifice civil rights to buy imaginary safety, the general phenomenon to make populist, opportunistic, but totally shortsighted, no, stupid decisions, or implicit, obvious incompetence …]]></description>
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			<title>HTML vs. XHTML: Why HTML&#160;Wins</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081219/html-vs-xhtml/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081219/html-vs-xhtml/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Document types are cool, and there are plenty of them. There are plenty yet countless discussions about the “right” document type, too. Alas, these discussions often deal with irrelevant details or miss the point entirely. The only decisive factor seems to be performance …]]></description>
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			<title>5 Tips To Deal with Right-to-Left&#160;Projects</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081211/5-rtl-tips/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081211/5-rtl-tips/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Know what goes into your markup and what goes into your style sheets. It’s actually quite simple: When available, you should always use dedicated bidi markup to describe your content. CSS may not be available, and its spec actually suggests that conforming user agents may ignore …]]></description>
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			<title>Re: The IE 6&#160;Equation</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081209/re-the-ie-6-equation/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081209/re-the-ie-6-equation/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Great: 24 ways is active again. Not so great: Their new site design. No, that’s nothing to talk about right now, not after I already offered Drew to explain my concerns after he asked me to; I rather refer to lack of some details to help making informed decisions …]]></description>
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			<title>The Greatest Secret in Web&#160;Design</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081201/the-greatest-secret-in-web-design/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081201/the-greatest-secret-in-web-design/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Accessibility</category>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>Design</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Alright I cheated, this isn’t really a secret for professionals. Or an open secret. Or whatever. It’s that web design is a process. Good web design is an ongoing endeavour; and thus, excellent web design an expensive undertaking …]]></description>
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			<title>WDR #2: Web Developers Needed for a&#160;Website</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081125/wdr-2/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081125/wdr-2/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Web Dev Report, issue #2, this time featuring a classic situation.]]></description>
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			<title>How to Uncover&#160;Pseudo-Standardistas</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081120/pseudo-standardistas/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081120/pseudo-standardistas/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Accessibility</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[There is a growing and annoying trend that not quite supports healthy attempts for more accessible, faster, more maintainable, and best practice web development: Pseudo-Standardistas. There are several ways to unmask pseudos …]]></description>
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			<title>WDR #1: Versioned Style&#160;Sheets</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081115/wdr-1/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081115/wdr-1/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gents, all I present’s … the Web Dev Report, issue #1.]]></description>
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			<title>5 CSS Tips Every Web Developer Should Know&#160;About</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081111/5-css-tips/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081111/5-css-tips/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Of all the many tips this site already shares, these might still be special, so let’s quickly scan them that might be considered essential for every web developer when it comes to Cascading Style Sheets. Main focus: Maintainability, differently.]]></description>
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			<title>Merged RSS Feed for German&#160;Readers</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081108/merged-rss-feed/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081108/merged-rss-feed/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[A new merged feed featuring all entries of my site, be they English or German, is finally available due to Yahoo Pipes. Since both parts of my site are different in several regards, including separate feeds, English-speaking German readers tended to subscribe to two feeds which isn’t really great …]]></description>
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			<title>Website Optimization Measures, Part&#160;V</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081103/optimization-measures-5/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081103/optimization-measures-5/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>Design</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Almost half a year since my last article in that regard it’s about time to present version 5 of some random website optimization measures hopefully being great for your site as well. Short and crispy, to use some equally random German saying …]]></description>
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			<title>Thoughts on&#160;Disclaimers</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081028/thoughts-on-disclaimers/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081028/thoughts-on-disclaimers/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[How awesome that this seems to be most popular in Germany: Disclaimers on both websites and emails. Quite recently I came across the German Wikipedia article on disclaimers which talks about the topic in some detail, and I could not but go for yet another “thoughts” post …]]></description>
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			<title>An Exercise for Emerging CSS Experts: Avoid IDs and&#160;Classes</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081021/exercise-for-emerging-css-experts/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081021/exercise-for-emerging-css-experts/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[To gain more expertise with CSS, there’s a great albeit probably unsurprising tip to share: Try avoiding IDs and classes altogether. That’s right, write your markup without any IDs and classes …]]></description>
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			<title>The Most Annoying Yet Almost Most Important Task in Professional Website&#160;Management</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081016/the-most-annoying-task/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081016/the-most-annoying-task/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[… is link checking. There are tools out there, en masse, however, it is just annoying to run after so-called professionals who neither know about simplest online rules nor how to set up redirects (but dare to waste other people’s time) …]]></description>
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			<title>meiert.com Survey&#160;Results</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081013/survey-results/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081013/survey-results/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[It’s one and a half months since I asked for your feedback on meiert.com, and I finally decided to publish a few results and to reply to some responses I got via the “comments and suggestions” field. However, first I like to thank everyone who participated in the survey …]]></description>
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			<title>Code&#160;Responsibly</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081009/code-responsibly/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081009/code-responsibly/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Accessibility</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Exactly: Code responsibly. And contribute if you like to.

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			<title>Accessibility&#160;Heuristics</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081007/accessibility-heuristics/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081007/accessibility-heuristics/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Accessibility</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just having updated my German article on accessibility heuristics it looks reasonable to share available though “rough” guidelines here as well, albeit in a short form that basically just grabs and cites respective documentation by W3C and IBM. They come without comments, however …]]></description>
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			<title>Web Standards at&#160;Google</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081002/web-standards-at-google/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081002/web-standards-at-google/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Accessibility</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[As an exception, I’m writing as a Googler here: At Google, we care about web standards. Officially, that is no real news, but taking into account all ongoing criticism for the code of our pages, it probably is …]]></description>
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