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Here’s a quick and dirty shell script to convert some data from SQLite to HTML format.

sqlite3 -html contacts.sqlite “SELECT name, number FROM contacts” | tidy -asxhtml > contacts.html

Tidy will fix errors and convert the table into XHTML format.

May be the W3C hasn’t paid attention to this bug which is considered as a feature.
When you write in Arabic letters and you include numbers, the numbers turn into Hindi, instead of Arabic ones! I do never use Hindi numbers, that’s why I’m obliged everytime I write in Arabic, to use Gimp in order […]

I found out a good tool to make slide shows without having to use a program such as PowerPoint or OpenOffice presentation, called Slidy.
You only have to include a JavaScript file, and optionally, a CSS in order to define different classes. All what you need is a basic [X]HTML/CSS knowledge, and go ahead! It […]

This is probably the best SVG gallery! Not about the number of graphics, but the quality.
3D objects made with simplicity and elegance. If you try to make them with a 3D software, there would be too much needless nodes which makes their size very huge; it’s not the case here.
The only problem is the […]

Nvu is a powerful WYSIWYG HTML and XHTML editor. I exclusively use this program when designing web pages for it’s reliable, has many features, supports CSS and generates valid code, let’s not mention it’s free!
However, it has been exactly one year since the last release of Nvu, 1.0 in June 22nd, 2005; no update, […]

Yes, that’s it, the wonderful Firefox has a problem, I can’t say it’s a bug, since the developers are aware and I can even say that they did it intentionally; well, here’s the point, when you save a valid XHTML page (Option: Web Page, complete), it reformats it to HTML 4 and keeps XHTML […]

I am only technical when talking of Web design. Like all webmasters, I know how to make a style sheet from a blank file, give definitions to elements, classes and ID’s, put HTML tags and respecting the standards; but I’m not artist in anyway. Art requires feelings, passion, mastering, whereas I make HTML/CSS templates […]

I started to find out about AJAX, a fashion Web technology, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML; Hatem’s blog helped me a lot, and the Internet is a huge source of information.
A “hello world” application is like the following: it requests data from page.php and writes the content between div tag identified by […]

WordPress contains a nice WYSIWYG HTML editor, but it doesn’t fit with XHTML specifications.
I found out a cool method to generate valid XHTML code on WordPress; all what you need is Nvu and Vim.
First, use Nvu to edit your HTML text, and set you markup output to XHTML transitional:
Tools - Preferences - Advanced - […]

Reading Linux Gazette, I found a nice RDF with XSL document that maps a picture and describes its parts.
I have hacked on the original script in order to change the picture and encode it using GraphInside.
You may also map the image using circles, shapes, etc.
This was tested on only Gecko softwares (Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox) […]

Learn how to draw Fedora Core logo with Inkscape through this tutorial.
Click here to download the tutorial.

A Perl script to integrate graphics into a HTML file.
Requires Perl with the following CPAN modules: HTML::TokeParser and MIME::Base64.
Handles HTML and XHTML documents, recognizes GIF, PNG and JPEG graphics, parses full path image files, compatible with standards.
See a live example (the documentation itself) here.
Click here to download the script.

I have coded a funny and buggy Feed Reader, with PHP and SQLite. So don’t be afraid if you see on the log a user-agent with a strange identity showing my URL: it means that I have added your RSS to my bookmarks

UNINTENTIONAL HUMOR is often the funniest. I’m co-presenting with Eric Meyer at the always-fabulous UI Conference (celebrating its 10th year!) and Eric, describing positioning, inadvertently said: “Here’s how we relatively position an elephant”
Now, Eric’s known for his oft subtle humor, but this was more a we-just-finished-lunch-so-we-all-need-a-nap situation. It came flying out of his mouth, no […]

Sometimes, you can find a very interesting web page, but the display is bad, especially for shining and incompatible colors, or very small fonts, …
EditCSS can fix this, but only for you: after installing the Firefox extension, right click anywhere in the page, and tick “Edit CSS” option; it will open a side bar with […]