Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My editor at O’Reilly sent me a copy of Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript: The Good Parts, which I found to be both interesting and useful. The volume is slim, 153 pages in all, but packed full of information about JavaScript—the good parts and the bad. I found myself nodding more than once, raising my […]
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Mac Pro
update 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 […]
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HTML and XHTML and bears, oh my!
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 […]
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Robert: Applying SVG effects to HTML
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 […]