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Technology

Office and XML

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sam Ruby has an interesting thread going about Microsoft’s next version of Office and its support for XML:   On one side, the ability of MS tools to adapt to formats that users can describe will be an incredible step forward. On the other hand, this doesn’t explain an unwillingness to working […]

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Web

Accessible web pages

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon Delacour is reviewing Joe Clark’s Building Accessible Web Sites. In addition, he interviewed Joe and will be posting results of the interview over the next few days. This promises to be excellent reading, and I do want to get the book when I can scrape the pennies together. I used Mark Pilgrim’s Dive […]

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Technology

Comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As you can see, I’ve added in functionality to display the most recent comments regardless of post. I’ve found that I do get comments on older posts, and they’re ‘lost’ because no one knows they occur. Now, every comment has its moment in the sun, so to speak. Speaking of […]

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Technology

Comment How-To

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In comments to my last posting Jonathon, asked the following about my new comment modification: Is that standard in (later versions of) MT? Or a custom-coded Burningbird special? Answer: a bit of both. The code is based on templates and an example that Ben and Mena provided, but I customized. So […]

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Diversity Technology

We are out there

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Clay Shirky left a gracious comment attached to the Dripping with Irony post. I’m glad because this helped the thread reach a positive note, rather than continue into a downward spiral based on the old “she said/he said” pattern (of which I, unfortunately, contributed my share). When I replied to Clay, I repeated something […]