Ask the blogger is a nicely written blog, about blogging, and somewhat amusingly to me, monetising blogs. Which seems to be an established market for the markets sake… Her post Adsense Tips and Tricks goes into some depth about other posts on cheating adsense, and points out that you are unlikely to get much out of the practice, which would be a favourable result for Google Adsense.
However, I noticed that the “Ask the Blogger” template is not forming entities correctly, incorrectly dropping the trailing semi-colon character ‘;’ from the entity string. This seems to be a common mistake of Internet Explorer wielding web developers… the other common traits of the IE fraternity?
- Thinking that URL’s are Case-insensitive. The windows File system is case insensitive, and as far as I know IIS is case insensitive, but this may have changed recently? Somehow Apache on Windows enforces case, but I’ve never heard of a production deployment of Apache httpd?
- Thinking that backslashes can be used in URL’s - especially for images in an HTML file.
Of course there are other traits of the IE web developer, especially when you get into the JavaScript… but I don’t feel as strongly about that, once a web developer learns of the power of using Firefox, they tend to move away from IE quickly… and upholding the ’standards’ and getting a solution to work in the myriad of different browser environments is a pain! The stuff above is the basics…
