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Google Chrome and Web Standards

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:16:02 GMT

How does the adoption of Google Chrome affect cross browser compatibility? Are web standards a solution? How can I easily move to standard compliant pages?

How to make my web pages Internet Explorer 8 compatible

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Free tool to make your web pages compatible with IE8 by automating the introduction of the compatibility flag.

IE8 Beta 2 is out and aggiorno express will help you get ready

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Just minutes ago Microsoft released its Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the latest public available release of its Internet browser. Getting your sites ready for IE8 don't have to be an impossible task at first, it is as easy as launching the application, selecting the source folder of your web site, deciding where the new web site should be stored, choosing the flag you want to meta tag your pages with and hitting Start! This is a temporal solution while you get your site ready, then u can use aggiorno express as well to remove the tag.

New blog on ASP.net and web standards

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:11:50 GMT

Come and see! If you are an ASP.net developer, you cannot ignore the world is turning to web standards!

Does Google care about the quality of your markup?

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:31:08 GMT

We are always discussing how to improve a page rank. But what about the basics? Does correct or incorrect HTML affect how google ranks a page? This article discusses a few issues that definetely affect your SEO.

Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you've always wanted

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:31:09 GMT

Review of the new Aggiorno plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008

Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

Nikhilk Kothari's site (almost) made XHTML valid

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:16:03 GMT

I decided to try and make good old Nikhilk Kothari's personal site a valid one. I didn't have access to the source code, so all changes were made on the rendered ASP.NET. Why Nikhilk? I don't know, I guess I just like his web site! Short and entertaining video.

DOCTYPE Validation in XHTML/ASP.NET web pages

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:35:39 GMT

Still copying-and-pasting DOCTYPE declarations from an existing site? Come and learn what this neglected line means...you won't regret it.

Web standards VS add-in beta version out

Fri, 02 May 2008 20:46:03 GMT

Aggiorno is an add-in for Visual Studio that can swallow horrible non-validating markup and help you make an ASP.NET site web standards compliant in a couple of minutes. Beta 1 has just been released, so you might want to give it a try and send some suggestions to the development team.