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Special characters in HTML: Easily Fixed with new Online Tool

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:19:57 GMT

Tired of fixing HTML special characters by hand? Here is a new tool for your web development arsenal. The new feature of the Silverlight Web Optimization tool can verify and fix all entity related problems in your web pages. What a pain was to do it by hand!!!!

To tag or not to tag? IE8 Compatibility mode: when should I care?

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:01:02 GMT

Find out how to easily make sure your pages display correctly in IE8

Webslices or Webchunks?

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:45:13 GMT

Firefox 3 now has an extension for supporting Webslices!!!

Artinsoft Aggiorno fixes your web pages

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:16:02 GMT

On this post Joe Stagner introduces his experiences with Aggiorno, Artinsoft's latest project which automates a lot of time consuming tasks for web developers in the form of web refactorings. From the post "[aggiorno] takes your web page and fixes errors, removes the use of deprecated constructs, restructures your syntax for XHTLM compliance and more."

Aggiorno 1.2 released! Better Performance, IE8 features and more

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:01:03 GMT

The guys over at Artinsoft just released a refresh to their aggiorno web assistant tool, from their website "aggiorno represents a new generation of tools for software developers that uses advanced transformational technologies, for turning any existing website into a valid, findable, accessible standards compliant one"... it really is a great tool and totally worth it to check it out.

How to make my web pages Internet Explorer 8 compatible

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:16:02 GMT

Free tool to make your web pages compatible with IE8 by automating the introduction of the compatibility flag.

IE8 Beta 2 is out and aggiorno express will help you get ready

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:31:02 GMT

Just minutes ago Microsoft released its Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, the latest public available release of its Internet browser. Getting your sites ready for IE8 don't have to be an impossible task at first, it is as easy as launching the application, selecting the source folder of your web site, deciding where the new web site should be stored, choosing the flag you want to meta tag your pages with and hitting Start! This is a temporal solution while you get your site ready, then u can use aggiorno express as well to remove the tag.

Joe Stagner says you could improve your ASP.NET site one tag at a time

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:46:09 GMT

Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek apparently took a brief look at Aggiorno, a Visual Studio plugin that does some interesting stuff, such as add alternate text to images, update deprecated attributes or fix tag structure for XHTML compliance. Come take a look!

Web standards VS add-in beta version out

Sat, 03 May 2008 02:46:03 GMT

Aggiorno is an add-in for Visual Studio that can swallow horrible non-validating markup and help you make an ASP.NET site web standards compliant in a couple of minutes. Beta 1 has just been released, so you might want to give it a try and send some suggestions to the development team.