Updated with a pointer to the latest version of Tantek’s stump speech on ‘Meaningful XHTML’, and a fix to a broken glyph. Tuesday night Kevin Marks and Tantek Çelik of Technorati gave a talk at SDForum on Semantic XHTML. Though, instead of calling it Semantic XHTML, I’d call it Lossless XHTML. The first example Kevin [...]
So my friend Eileen Gunn publishes her book of short stories. And her partner, typography guru John Berry, designed the book. Pretty cool. Eileen also edits The Infinite Matrix. The Infinite Matrix has a weblog by Howard Waldrop, which is amazing considering I don’t think he has a computer. The Infinite Matrix also has an [...]
A note of thanks to Jim Whitehead and his students (including Elias Sinderson) at UCSC for their work on Hypertext 04. I learned a lot at the conference, and the sessions where the literary hypertext and gearheads intermeshed were mind-expanding, like David Kolb’s paper on what happens to rhetoric when you’re simultaneously creating a conventional [...]
Our corporate masters gave Buzz the blessing to release his del.icio.us bookmark browser!
Tim Bray calls for editors that do for XHTML what Word did for other documents. Building an XHTML editor in the browser is painful –less painful since contenteditable arrived. Managing content through the server, however, isn’t horrible. You can point something as basic as Blosxom at a directory of markup and publish it. Using WebDAV, [...]
The Cassini-Huygens web team at NASA built an image browser, along the lines of the one at the Planetary Photojournal, to help us sort through the hundreds of raw images the spacecraft sends back from Saturn. You can select from Cassini’s two cameras, any of the objects it photographed during the roundabout trip (including Venus, [...]
Woah, Blogger’s all grown up: permalinks, XHTML, and everything. Well done guys, well done. And Dave, don’t whinge about Atom, just use XSLT. There’s even an XSLT engine that runs in Frontier/Radio.
This week I learned I had a 1.5 mb Word file to convert to XML. It’s time to find a tool to do the conversion. I looked at two products that run under Mac OS X: Infinity Loop’s upCast and Logictran’s R2Net. After spending a day poking at them, I recommend upCast. upCast can convert [...]
Bill Bumgarner’s packaged Fred Sánchez’s Apache 2.0/Subversion binaries for Mac OS X. Double click the installer, and you’re done. Why all the hubub? Subversion is version control software. Like CVS, you can go back across the changes you made to a file or a collection of files. I’ve mentioned this before, but with Subversion, you [...]
MarcN responded to my request for examples sorting and categorizing applications with a nice list of applications for Mac OS. I’m downloading DevonThink.
I’m looking for applications where the user sorts a large pile of things into many buckets. Web and non-web applications appreciated. I’ll link suggestions to this entry. Thanks! Movable Type’s mass-editing interface. NASA’s Martian Crater sorter. iTunes playlists.
The site for Tag URI documentation has updated after a brief absence. Tag URI’s become important as it’s the standard many folks are using to implement Atom’s id element.
I think you need at least two servers to run Moveable Type in a shared environment. Note: this is idle Sunday afternoon speculation. Why: because the more posts you have, the more work there is to update all the static files in reaction to a change (new post, edit post, trackback, comment.) More weblogs on [...]
Notes on the relationship between WebDAV and Atom from the Wiki.
I wanted to make a link between Tantek’s work on XFN and Jon’s experiments in adding semantic information to class attributes of markup. XFN uses a natural attribute, rel for relationships between the the author and the link target. Jon’s using the class attribute to add semantic information to the XHTML he stores in a [...]