BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. On today’s tenth anniversary of the birth of XML, Norm Walsh writes: I joined O’Reilly on the very first day of an unprecedented two-week period during which the production department, the folks who actually turn finished manuscripts into books, was closed. The department was undergoing a two-week training period during which they would […]
I really kick myself now for not including a mention of gnuplot in “Painting the Web”. I had one chapter on graphics and data, and it would have been a nice fit. However, it does need a nice installation environment for the Mac, and that was one of the criteria for including mention of tools. We’re told […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During the recent light hearted discussions revolving around IE8 and its faithful companion, Wonder Tag, a second topic thread broke out about XHTML. As is typical whenever XHTML is brought up, the talk circles around to the draconian error handling or yellow screen of death when encountering even a small, harmless seeming discrepancy in a page’s […]
The ACID3 race has begun. Coming around the first lap… Firefox 3 is in first place, with a comendable lead. Way to burn up the track, foxy! [image gone] Coming up from behind, we find the ACID crowd favorite, *Opera! [image gone] Winded, but still giving it all she’s got…Safari! (Is that a picture of a cat?) […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My upcoming book, Painting the Web includes considerable coverage of technology-enabled graphics. Of course, all graphics are technology enabled, but when I say ‘technology-enabled’ I mean graphics via command line tools or accessed through programming language such as PHP. What to cover wasn’t an easy choice. For instance, how much programming experience […]