he fall has been nice, but I haven’t been able to take advantage of the decent weather and pretty scenery. I have a book deadline next week for my new book for O’Reilly, The JavaScript Cookbook. I can’t do much anyway, because my car is doing very odd things, and I no longer trust it […]
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Celebrating the first day of SVGOpen
Wordle Image of RealTech front page, captured using Skitch and saved as PNG. PNG file opened in Inkscape, and Trace Bitmap applied. Bitmap options: Multiple Scans, Colors, 5 Scans, with options to stack the scans, and remove background. SVG finished by running Scour, saving 52.1% of the SVG file size. SVG made cross-browser friendly, via SVGWeb.
Per Sam Ruby, Microsoft has submitted a proposal for distributed extensibility in HTML5, which features the use of namespaces. The proposal uses reverse DNS names, but other than those ugly sons-of-bitches, it looks promising. There are some issues, including no support for innerHTML on namespaced elements, because they would end up defined as Element, not HTMLUnknownElement, but […]
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An obese Gina Lollobrigida
Things too good to pass up: The Ken Burns special, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea begins on PBS tonight. The libertarian forces are already out, accusing Burns of socialist propaganda. Karl Martino from Paradox1x links three stories related to the healthcare debate. Included is the story of a 22 year old woman who died because she didn’t seek […]
Well, that was exciting. I wasn’t sure what was happening with my sites, since Drupal throws up a maintenance page automatically when it can’t get a database connection. My ISP is still investigating what caused the problems. In the meantime, the WhatWG IRC log is interesting reading today, including the following quote about HTML5 and Last Call, […]