BurningbirdTech specs
Harmony is a very good thing. For some time now, the ECMAScript working groups have been split into two camps: one supporting ECMAScript 4, another ECMAScript 3.1. The former was a more radical leap forward in ECMAScript (JavaScript), while the latter favored more incremental progress. Ajaxian, John Resig, Simon Willison, and a host of others are referencing […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Popular Mechanics has an excellent article of the dirty little secret of HDTV: that there are no true standards or specifications in place defining what exactly is “high definition TV”. Because of this, the article’s writer, Glenn Derene, writes, the quality of broadcast we get from providers, varies. Considerably. For […]
I was quite pleased to see all of the activity related to SVG in the HTML5 working group’s public email list. I agree with those who say that HTML5 needs to be able to work with any unknown vocabulary via namespaces, rather than try to coerce a HTMLized version of SVG and MathML. A case in point […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Joel Spolksy just spent several thousand words and accompanying diagrams saying one thing: we did things crappy in the past, and we should continue doing things crappy in the future because crap is easy. Where do I start? This upcoming battle will be presided over by Dean Hachamovitch, the Microsoft veteran currently […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve pulled the plug-in. It cleaned out the comment text, but not the name, URL, and email of the person. The email isn’t an issue, as WP ensures the email is clean; the URL and the name, however, are still an issue. A new comment isn’t the problem; edited comments […]