Burningbirdupdate Well, I’m officially dead in the water. I did create a firewire bootable image on one of my external hard drives, and had it running once. Now, however, when I go to start the machine, pushing the Option key does nothing. Trying to safe boot or single boot does nothing. Trying to boot off […]
James Bennett writes on why HTML is the markup for him. There really isn’t anything to agree or disagree with, because he’s expressing his personal preferences. To him, the fact that you can co-mingle different vocabularies, such as XHTML, SVG, RDF, and MathML, isn’t enough to overcome the draconian error handling (there’s that term again, death to the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have this insanely perverse urge not to download Firefox until Wednesday. To get up in the dead of night, tip-toe to my machine and hit the download button when the date is safely the 18th; cackling in glee at the thought that I, I, am the sole hold out–the […]
A couple of people have kindly pointed out Robert O’Callahan’s wonderful exploration Applying SVG Effects to HTML. I’ve held off on posting about it, as I wanted to create a longer writing trying out Robert’s work. However, I didn’t want to put off sharing this effort any longer. I’ll have more on this mix of HTML […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Browsers have been generating a lot of buzz this week. Opera just released Opera 9.5, which I’ve already downloaded and installed on all of my machines. I’m also going to be downloading and trying out the new Dragonfly JavaScript debugger, since I’ll be covering it (and other JS tools) in the second edition […]