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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 2000-2008 Jens Meiert.</copyright>
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			<title>Jens Meiert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Google&#160;Chrome</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080904/google-chrome/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Accessibility</category>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[I love it: 99.9 % of the readers of this site already know about Google Chrome, the browser my employer just released. Still, I am not talking as an employee here, and still, there might be something in this post that you didn’t know …]]></description>
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			<title>Asking for Your&#160;Feedback</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080828/your-feedback/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[I may ask for 15 seconds (meaning exactly 15 seconds) of your precious time to take a really short survey related to this website, because I’d like to get a better idea of your perspective and your ideas …]]></description>
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			<title>To Be Clear (on Conditional Comments and&#160;Resets)</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080824/to-be-clear/</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[My articles on both Conditional Comments and “reset” style sheets belong to the most popular contributions regarding that matter not just on this site, but apparently even on the Web. And just as I don’t judge that, I don’t judge all the debates that have been triggered;  …]]></description>
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			<title>Re: 7 Principles of Clean and Optimized CSS&#160;Code</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080819/re-clean-and-optimized-css/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tell me anyway, is Smashing Magazine sometimes misusing its power, or is it sometimes abused? Yesterday’s post features “7 Principles of Clean and Optimized CSS Code”, but in fact, at least one of them is not necessarily advisable, not at all, and others might be missing …]]></description>
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			<title>Best Practice for ID and Class&#160;Names</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080812/best-practice-ids-and-classes/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080812/best-practice-ids-and-classes/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[I’m currently working on yet another article for German Dr. Web mag, this time covering recommendations for IDs and classes, an issue likely as old as the Web. Taking a different approach than usual I’m feeling free to publish a “guerrilla sneak preview” in this place …]]></description>
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			<title>A Few Words on HTML/CSS&#160;Frameworks</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080805/html-css-frameworks/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Public, or open, HTML/CSS “frameworks” are never the best solution, and oftentimes not even a good solution for any site. Let’s conclude this right now but take another look at supposed frameworks …]]></description>
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			<title>Updating a Definition of&#160;Art</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080729/updating-a-definition-of-art/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080729/updating-a-definition-of-art/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>Design</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[When I once tried to define art, design, and decoration, I described art as: “Art hides. Art has a meaning, and it hides it, on purpose. Art delivers a message, and it’s hidden, on purpose. It is an art to create art. Art is unusable, by definition.” Several months and discussions later …]]></description>
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			<title>Expertise and the Inverted&#160;Parabola</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080718/expertise-and-the-inverted-parabola/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080718/expertise-and-the-inverted-parabola/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am not a mathematician, but it looks like gaining and applying experience and expertise manifests itself in an inverted parabola. So knowledge or its use, respectively, apparently faces the situation that beginners don’t know what to do and thus don’t do much …]]></description>
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			<title>Thoughts Dump: CSS&#160;Selectors</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080714/thoughts-dump-css-selectors/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080714/thoughts-dump-css-selectors/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rapid fire thoughts on CSS selectors: WebKit added support for CSS variables (already cheating as this is not about selectors). What are CSS variables? Something Daniel and Dave specified this year. How does it …]]></description>
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			<title>Yes, You Can Use HTML&#160;5</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080708/you-can-use-html-5/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080708/you-can-use-html-5/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[For those who weren’t aware of that so far, you can already use HTML 5: Just use &#60;!DOCTYPE html&#62; as your HTML documents’ document type …
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			<title>Compared to&#160;What?</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080703/compared-to-what/</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Marketing</category>
			<category>Design</category>
			<category>Politics</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[… is probably one of the most important questions there is. “Compared to what?” is the question that should be answered everytime it is about data, be it presented in graphs, in newspapers, on websites, or when just talked about. Yet it is rarely answered, rarely asked,  …]]></description>
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			<title>Me on Swiss&#160;TV</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080701/me-on-swiss-tv/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080701/me-on-swiss-tv/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Uncategorized</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[For those curious about me supporting Germany during the EURO 2008, there is a short interview available that Blick.ch recorded at Seebad Enge during halftime of the finals against Spain (and after Fernando Torres scored the only goal). Jens on Swiss TV (FLV) …]]></description>
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			<title>10 Measures for Continuous Website&#160;Maintenance</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080624/continuous-website-maintenance/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080624/continuous-website-maintenance/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>Design</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Website maintenance and quality assurance mean the backbone of high quality offers of information, and they represent the difference between an amateurish or professional approach to web design and development. Consequently, guidelines for quality web design define maintenance …]]></description>
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			<title>When Validation Becomes&#160;Unimportant</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080616/validation-unimportant/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080616/validation-unimportant/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Validation becomes unimportant once you’re ahead of the game, and not a second earlier. Even then, truly mastering HTML and CSS, it will usually be best to stick with valid markup and styling, but fighting latency might then mean a by all means legitimate reason to stretch a little bit …]]></description>
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			<title>Thoughts on&#160;Email</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080610/thoughts-on-email/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080610/thoughts-on-email/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Email was, is, and will stay the web’s true killer application, but spam, top-posting, incompetent use of newsletters, and the HTML email problem mean serious challenges. I can’t but get rid of …]]></description>
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			<title>Web Design: 10 Additional Research Findings You Should&#160;Know</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080605/web-design-additional-research-findings/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080605/web-design-additional-research-findings/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>Design</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Following up on last year’s post on web design research, here’s a new collection of research results, this time featuring further reading as well. It happens that I still watch the work of Association for Computing Machinery, Human Factors International, and the like …]]></description>
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			<title>Optional Tags in HTML&#160;4</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080601/optional-tags-in-html-4/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080601/optional-tags-in-html-4/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[For convenience and in order to allow for additional bits or bytes being saved in your markup, here’s a list of all optional tags according to the HTML 4.01 Strict DTD. Finally …]]></description>
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			<title>Über-Semantics</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080527/uber-semantics/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080527/uber-semantics/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 07:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Premasagar recently published a great demonstration of what can be considered “über-semantic” code, thanks to the microformats community’s approach to never rely on the semantics of HTML elements but instead use non-defused classes for everything …]]></description>
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			<title>Tip: vi Config&#160;Modification</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080525/tip-vi-config/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080525/tip-vi-config/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 13:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Web Development</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[Long story short and assuming this is not too well-known: You can easily modify vi editor’s apparent standard configuration, and the most useful changes probably affect UTF-8 encoding and display of line numbers. In order to do that, simply …]]></description>
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			<title>Less Is Still&#160;More</title>
			<link>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080521/less-is-still-more/</link>
			<comments>http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080521/less-is-still-more/#comments</comments>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 18:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
			<dc:creator>Jens Meiert</dc:creator>
			<category>Accessibility</category>
			<category>Design</category>
			<category>Web Development</category>
			<category>Usability</category>
			<category>User Experience</category>
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			<description><![CDATA[How much time and money gets spent on making things worse is something I find absolutely fascinating. Allow me to elaborate, starting with HTML newsletters: People (let) spend hours on writing supposed content, create and decorate mockups, work around ridiculous email client implementations, …]]></description>
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