Archive for the 'Tech' Category

I’m not sure how or why I did not see this sooner, but in firefox, setting accessibility.tabfocus in about:config to 7 allows tabbing into select elements, removing my biggest annoyance with the Mac UI.

xfn friendly

After attending tantek’s panel on the elements of meaningful xhtml at my first sxsw, I felt obligated to add xfn tags to my links to other people’s sites and blogs. Despite my somewhat personal disgreement with polluting rel tags in (x)html, instead of just adding a custom dtd or separate namespace instead.

first dojo profile

Our first dojo profile package has been released. Basically it is the Dojo wrapper for xmlhttp requests, combined with support for using the back button and getting stateful urls while using this technique.

cadex?

tantek has suggested the name cadex for responsive web applications. I can live with that. It certainly beats the proposed alternative.

top 100 gadgets

mobile pc has a very fun look at the Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

106 miles revisited

Adam Rifkin provides an outstanding recap of January’s 106 Miles

rss – really something special?

Kevin Laws asks “Is RSS for real, or is it today’s Social Networking?” in his article rss – really something special?. The article itself is an excellent summary of the current RSS business landscape. Of course, social networking is nowhere close to reaching it’s potential… I’ll talk more about that when I have something interesting […]

google fires blogger

Mark Jen was fired by Google recently due in part to comments made on his blog, as mentioned in my entry complaining to complain. Tonight I had the chance to meet him at the latest 106 Miles event. He seems to be a pretty nice guy, and dumbfounded by how quickly his comments caught fire […]

google maps

Google unleashed Google Maps today and did a pretty amazing job. Of course, there are always people that just do not get it. Yes, I know that Python is a cleaner language for development. But if you want to write responsive web applications, you need JavaScript, the most widely deployed, misunderstood, functional-like language in the […]

adobe svg and closures

Alex wrote a rant about our struggles with adobe svg, http requests, and closures.

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