BurningbirdI’ve been in the computer industry for several years, and have two degrees: a BS in Computer Science, and a BA in industrial psychology. In the past, I’ve worked with some very well known companies, including Boeing, Sierra Geophysics, Stanford University, Harvard University, Standard Insurance Company, John Hancock, Intel, and Nike. I’ve even paid my […]
update The discussion on RDFa in HTML5 is quite active on the WhatWG mailing list, and so I’m closing comments down here, and encouraging the discussion in that location. There is no restriction on joining the mailing list. A place to start would be a thread I started but I’m sure new threads will be springing up. I […]
As of this first week in January, 2009, the web statistics at my five main sites read as follows (only values greater than or equal to two percent are listed): Burningbird (main page) Browser stats Browser and version (if provided) Percentage MSIE 5.5 4.3% MSIE 6.0 6.8% MSIE 7.0 14.6% Firefox 3.0.5 16% NetWireNews 8.3% […]
A List Apart has a new article out on the Semantics in HTML5. John Allsopp writes We’ll start by posing the question: “why are we inventing these new elements?” A reasonable answer would be: “because HTML lacks semantic richness, and by adding these elements, we increase the semantic richness of HTML—that can’t be bad, can it?” […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A favorite game with Roku owners is to guess which service will be added to the box, first. The game is now over, because evidently, Amazon’s Video On Demand is going to be the next video entry for the Roku boxes. This puts the box on par with AppleTV in offerings. Well, […]