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SVG

Comments line graph

I had promised a WordPress pluggable version of the comments line graph and here it is. The line graph application is in two pieces: one to place in your theme directory and include in your page template; and a plug-in that will create the cached comment count file. File one is graphcomments.php, which is installed […]

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Standards SVG XHTML/HTML

Even the mistakes are fun

Anne Van Kesteren: A new survey reveals that at least Microsoft and IBM think the HTML charter does not cover the canvas element. I have to wonder, when reading the survey results, how much the people who voted actually used either SVG or the Canvas element. I covered both SVG and the Canvas Element in the […]

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Technology Web

Apple meet orange

Speaking of email, how absolutely idiotic to pronounce the death of email because today’s teens aren’t using their email accounts. Today’s teens are also wearing their pants around their ankles–does this mean, then, that civilization will eventually lose its waist? I’m sorry, dear people, but frankly I’d rather not see most of your underwear clad […]

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JavaScript

We can’t afford another browser war

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It was with a sense of foreboding that I read the posts that swam past on Planet Intertwingly today. First came Mozilla’s Brendan Eich’s chastisement of Microsoft’s Chris Wilson, followed in a short while by commentary by Sam Ruby, where he wrote: It is interesting how the don’t-break-the-web meme means different things to different organizations: Mozilla, […]

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JavaScript Technology

We can’t afford another browser war

It was with a sense of foreboding that I read the posts that swam past on Planet Intertwingly today. First came Mozilla’s Brendan Eich’s chastisement of Microsoft’s Chris Wilson, followed in a short while by commentary by Sam Ruby, where he wrote: It is interesting how the don’t-break-the-web meme means different things to different organizations: Mozilla, Microsoft. I’m not a language […]