[thelist] Microsoft, the inventor of XML!

Seb Potter wrote some really vocal stuff that has been snipped:
> 
> <quote src="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114.html">
> XML was developed by a Generic SGML Editorial Review Board formed under
> the auspices of the W3 Consortium in 1996 and chaired by Jon Bosak of
> Sun Microsystems, with the very active participation of a Generic SGML
> Working Group also organized by the W3C. The membership of these groups
> is given in an appendix.
> </quote>


Sorry everyone, I sent this far too quickly without checking what list
it was going to.

<tip type="javascript" keywords="debugging">
Debugging your Javascript and getting errors that certain properties or
methods are not supported by what you think is a perfectly valid
datatype?

You can throw in a call to typeof(expression) to return a string
describing the datatype, for instance:

<script language="javascript">
var my_var = true;
document.write("this variable is of type: " + typeof(variable));
</script>

Will write that the variable is a boolean.

This can be quite usefull when you're trying to read properties of an
object, only to find out that you've accidentally set it to be a string.

</tip>


Seb.