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One of the very first sections that I placed on the site seven years ago was a series of pages containing a reference to all of the tags, attributes, and event handlers that are valid for XHTML 1.0 strict and transitional.

Despite the controversy and debate over whether people should use XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.0.1 for coding their web pages, these pages still make a useful reference to what is valid since the only changes needed to make the code into valid HTML is to remove the closing slash in the singleton tags.

HTML Reference

One section of the site that I haven’t been giving as much attention as I perhaps ought to lately is the section covering the various operating systems. I have sections covering a number of popular operating systems. See if the answers to your operating systems are there and if not then please suggest some additional pages that I can add to those sections.

• OS/2
• Linux
• DOS/Windows (though ME)
• Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista

To celebrate the seventh birthday of my web site felgall.com, I am giving away a special gift of 12 web page templates to everyone who signs up for a free membeship of the “Ask Felgall” Member’s Area.

Note that this offer is available via the above link only and NOT via the regular signup form.

What was to become the felgall.com web site first went live on the 20th October 2000. Since then I have added well over 1500 pages to the site across a wide range of computer related topics. To celebrate the first anniversary of the site I started producing a monthly newsletter which has been sent out regularly every month since then as well as being published on the site a few weeks later.

To celebrate the seventh anniversary of the site I have just added this new felgall.net web site that provides another way of accessing the huge amount of information on the main site as well as giving me somewhere to place the short comments about things that don’t deserve a full web page.

Why not help celebrate the seventh anniversary of my site by signing up for my newsletter or grabbing an RSS feed to this blog.

One section of the site which doesn’t get much traffic is my web site construction award. This award is intended to recognise those sites that are properly constructed so as to download fast and function correctly on all the major browsers. This is something that very few web sites actually achieve and is probably the most overlooked area when people are building a site as the content and design get all the attention.

Do you think your site could be the first to qualify for my “Gold” award? Why not read the criteria for the award, perhaps rework your site a little to improve its construction, and then if you think you meet the criteria, submit your site.

Web Site Construction Award

There is a political ad that I have been hearing a lot on the radio lately where either the person who wrote the ad has made a huge mistake, or the political party that introduced the legislation that the ad discusses think that it has major flaws and will take years to fix (if so why did they approve it?).

The ad starts out by pointing out how people claimed that the Y2K bug would mean the end of the world and then compares their workplace relations legislation to it. I suppose they are trying to suggest that the world didn’t end because of the Y2K bug and that therefore the doom sayers with regard to their legislation are equally wrong.

Well the world of computers didn’t end because of the Y2K bug but only because almost all of the world’s computer programmers spent about three years working overtime to fix most of it and even then there were a few problems that got through, fortunately few enough to be able to fix them in a week or two. Had that massive rewrite not taken place we would only now be in a position to finish running the January 2000 processing on the computers and so manual processes would have needed to be used for several years. We would be so far behind in getting the computers to work properly that the world would effectively have ended in so far as using computers is concerned.

Did the party that introduced this legislation really mean to imply that it is so flawed that it will require hundreds of thousands of people working for years to fix it?

Following on from identifying what the numerical operators are in JavaScript, the next tutorial looks at how JavaScript decides which order to perform them in when you include multiple operators in the same statement.

With the tutorials on JavaScript operators out of the way, it is time to start looking at how to operate on those variables in order to very their values. The seventh web page in my series of tutorials on variables and operators looks at the numerical operators.

Operating on Variables