Accessify.com – why you should use the acronym tag to increase accessibility. The page also explains the difference between an acronym and an abbreviation:
So, to decide whether you should use an <acronym> or <abbr> tag, use the test above – “Can I say the abbreviation as a word in its own right?”. If yes, use an <acronym>.
Personally, I find the difference pretty pointless in mark-up. Couldn’t (X)HTML have just had an <annotation> tag </annotation> for footnotes, tooltips, etc?
Informal user survey of Salon/Radio blog users. (link through Blogging Roller). A good list of hurdles that need to be crossed before you’ll feel comfortable getting your mom to write a webblog (as in the metaphorical “your mom”. I’d substitute “Suzie”, myself).
Hanan Cohen looks at using RSS in Hebrew.
Mark Pilgrim notes the official retiring of the Browser Upgrade campaign.
What caught my eye was his comment how the campaign got inadvertantly entangled with the problem of spam:
Scumbags were setting up web sites, spamming millions of people trying to sucker them into clicking through to said web sites, and then immediately redirecting them off-site to get them to upgrade their browser first before allowing them to be suckered.
Typing Hebrew Points (Niqud) in Windows and Word – you need to have the current keyboard language set to Hebrew for this to work, obviously.