Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

Is INPUT tag valid when used outside of a FORM tag?

Here is an update from the “learn something new every day” department – using <input> tag outside of (or, in other words, without) <form> tag is perfectly valid.  It’s valid in the newest HTML5 spec, and it was valid with earlier versions of HTML and XHTML too.

Interesting, that today was the first time I came across this, after doing HTML for almost 20 years.

PHPNG Dramatic Speedup Features Coming in PHP 6 Release

PHPNG Dramatic Speedup Features Coming in PHP 6 Release

Some highlights:

  • The plot to kill Apache mod_php SAPI
  • Type hinting for everything (function arguments, function return values, and variables)
  • Asynchronous programming (using the new await keyword)
  • Production ready standalone web server
  • Multi-thread safe