Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Wired.com: At least one heckler thought the backlash was because of Lacy’s gender instead of her questions. MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier, who twittered a few swipes against Lacy during the talk, told Wired.com after the keynote that Lacy’s gender might have been behind the reaction of the geeky masses. “I […]
Year: 2008
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Talk about webloggers being had… Frank Paynter had a couple of odd posts about Stormhoek, the South African wine made famous by weblogging. It would seem that Stormhoek was really nothing more than a concept in search of a vineyard in 2003, and now that some level of success has been reached, is scratching the vineyard. […]
Run for the web
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A gentleman from the W3C was kind enough to point me to a newly tracked issue for the HTML5 working group related to namespaces in HTML5, entered by James Graham. I’m not a player in this game, because I can continue to use XHTML 1.1 until they pry it out of my […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Bob DuCharme has a guest post by the Chief Technology Strategist for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Sarah Bourne, on accessibility issues associated with microformats. She mentions both the abbr and include design patterns that others, most commonly Joe Clark, have brought up in the past. Ms. Bourne also has an interesting […]
The incredible, scalable SVG
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One of the advantages of SVG over some other graphics capability is the fact that SVG is vector-based. A vector graphic means that images are created via *recorded mathematical primitives (circle, line, square, etc.) rather than based on fixed pixels. Because SVG is a vector graphic, the same image can […]
