Category: Web
Jan 232008
I would love it if someone who objects to the feature could describe the path by which Microsoft could redeem itself. If they break backward compatibility, people will claim they’re evil. If they don’t implement the standards, people will claim they’re evil. Their existing features don’t comply with standards. The only way to maintain backward compatibility while altering existing features is through versioning. The standards bodies aren’t interested in versioning. Sounds kind of like a no win situation to me. So what should we do, point a revolver at their head and demand they pick sides?
Neil Mix
Video: Hardly Working
Like Amir, I also get a pinkish-purple hazy frame around my field of vision whenever I daydream.
Jan 222008
Standards & Complications
Acid2 was the good news. This is the bad news. I don’t mind so much, really, because it’s the least painful solution to a problem that needed to be solved.
Jan 112008
[N]ext time you wonder why your toolkit of choice is built the way it is or why it’s even necessary, just remember that in many cases they are protecting you from a decade or more of bad decision making.
Jan 92008
Wow — when did Pidgin get such an awesome logo? Most companies don’t have a wordmark this artful. And most open-source software projects have either a dreadful logo or none at all. (Then again, the Disney-cartoonish detail on the pigeon clashes horribly with the wordmark.)
It is not our intent to eliminate debate or disagreement, but rather to programmatically enforce a certain quality of expression. Put another way: The StupidFilter will cheerfully approve an eloquent, properly-capitalized defense of mandatory, state-subsidized rocket-launcher ownership for all schoolchildren.
Jan 32008
I’ve been working hard on RKelly lately. RKelly is a Ruby implementation of Kelly. Kelly is a fictional project that I made up so that I could name my project RKelly.
For a while I’ve been thinking about writing a Greasemonkey script to hide any del.icio.us/popular links that begin with a number, but I think this is the last meta-straw: 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic. Blog will eat itself.
(1)Dec 292007
Justin looks at what YUI gets right in fostering third-party scripts. In particular he enjoys the inline documentation, which gets converted to an API reference using JsDoc Toolkit. I’ve long been interested in inline docs, but have not found a system that would not require more effort than writing the docs separately as we do now. (Relatedly: Prototype UI seems to be using Natural Docs.)
Dec 192007
You heard it somewhere else first: IE8 reportedly passes the Acid2 test. I’ve seen many reports of this, but none of them have read between the lines and translated it into an implicit set of new features for IE8’s HTML and CSS support: proper object support with content fallback, min- and max-height and width, CSS tables, and generated content. It also implies bug fixes for collapsing margins. These are the things tested by Acid2 which would’ve failed in IE7. If we get as much on the JavaScript side as we’ve apparently received on the HTML/CSS side, this will be the largest step forward the web has seen in a decade.
