Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I tried out one of the applications for Google’s new Social Graph API. The application looks for XFN or a FOAF file connected to your weblog to see who you connect to, and who connects to you. I don’t have XFN or a FOAF file. I did have one once, though, under my old URL, weblog.burningbird.net, so […]
Year: 2008
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Tweaks and Flakes
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you only read the weblog in your reader, you’re missing out on the newest tweaks. A little more color, a few more excuses to use SVG. I love that SVG. SVG and ImageMagick…um…um…good. SVG, ImageMagick, and RDF–there has to be something in there waiting to be discovered. If you […]
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Adventures in XHTML
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During the recent light hearted discussions revolving around IE8 and its faithful companion, Wonder Tag, a second topic thread broke out about XHTML. As is typical whenever XHTML is brought up, the talk circles around to the draconian error handling or yellow screen of death when encountering even a small, harmless seeming discrepancy in a page’s […]
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And they’re off
The ACID3 race has begun. Coming around the first lap… Firefox 3 is in first place, with a comendable lead. Way to burn up the track, foxy! [image gone] Coming up from behind, we find the ACID crowd favorite, *Opera! [image gone] Winded, but still giving it all she’s got…Safari! (Is that a picture of a cat?) […]
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Macports, Unix, and Graphics
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My upcoming book, Painting the Web includes considerable coverage of technology-enabled graphics. Of course, all graphics are technology enabled, but when I say ‘technology-enabled’ I mean graphics via command line tools or accessed through programming language such as PHP. What to cover wasn’t an easy choice. For instance, how much programming experience […]