Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Web Devout has adopted a somewhat more user- and search engine-friendly format for its URLs. For example, instead of /browser_support.php it’s now /browser-support. The old URLs should automatically redirect to the new ones, but it’s possible that something was overlooked. If you experience an unexpected 404 or other error, please let me know as soon as possible.
Friday, January 19th, 2007
The General Meta Data Profile 1.5 has been published. This update incorporates a number of proposed additions to XHTML 2 and Web Applications 1.0 as well as some other commonly used properties. Some errors have been corrected and the page has been adapted to the typical Web Devout style.
Monday, January 8th, 2007
The General Meta Data Profile 1.4 has been published.
The HTML standard defines a number of standard link types for the rel and rev attributes, but it allows for additional link types and meta data types to be used if they are defined in a referenced profile. An increasing number of applications have recently begun taking advantage of this, and many so-called “microformats” have emerged. The General Meta Data Profile attempts to gather and briefly define most of the popular link types and meta data types currently in use and to provide a referenceable profile in the standard XMDP format.
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
Web Devout now has a native search engine to help users explore the site.
The search engine uses a link weighting algorithm similar to Google’s PageRank, as well as over 10 other factors to help get the most relevant results at the top. I made the engine from scratch for this site, and it currently only accepts simple queries (most common operators aren’t yet supported), but I will continue working to improve it in the future.
Update: Standard search operators such as AND, OR, |, and & are now supported, as well as double quotes for term grouping and parentheses for query grouping.
Friday, November 24th, 2006
The Web development tools article has been published. This article describes a collection of useful third party tools for web developers, all available free of cost. More tools will be added to the article over time.