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10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know - Nettuts+ Web developers these days are often expected to know and work in multiple languages. As a result, it's tricky to learn everything a language has to offer and easy to find yourself not utilizing the full potential of some more specialized but very useful tags. Unfortunately we haven't been tapping into the full potential of these more obscure HTML tags as of late. But it's never too late to get back into the game and start writing code that taps into the power of some under-used tags. Here are ten of some of the most underused and misunderstood tags in HTML. 1. All of us will be familiar with the <blockquote> tag, but did you know about <blockquote>'s little brother <cite>?

The <cite> tag is really useful for citing bibliographic and other site references. David Allen's breakthrough organization book Getting Things Done has taken the web by storm. 2. The <optgroup> tag is a great way to add a little definition between groups of options inside a select box. Live demo: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Sgt. CleanCode.jpg (JPEG Image, 1652x1275 pixels) 456 Berea Street: Articles and news on web standards, accessibil. Top 12 Ruby on Rails Tutorials.

A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful: Rolling with Ruby on Rails – Curtis Hibbs of ONLamp.com offers his first excellent introduction to Ruby on Rails. This is the article that got me really excited about RoR.2. Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2 – The sequel to Curtis Hibbs excellent series of articles.3. Four Days on Rails (PDF) – a great tutorial that is broken down into simple tasks that you can do over a four day period.

To be quite honest, this tutorial only takes about 2 hours, but nonetheless it is very well organized! Hey, Ruby on Rails Fans! UPDATE, JUNE 2009: Want more up-to-date tutorials on Ruby programming? Happy Rails developing and if you have any other tutorials that you’d like to share, please leave them in the comments! Tagged as: ruby on rails, tutorial. Backstage.bbc.co.uk :: Front Page :: Welcome.