Dylan Schiemann

Kevin Hughes has put together an interesting svg color picker. It has some interesting features and shows some of the current uses and limitations of SVG with the Adobe plug-in. Though it looks like mozilla will finally have limited SVG support enabled by default in 1.8. I have also added a few updates to my […]

Eric Meyer has released S5, formalizing an easy to use web-based slide show. Most of the presentations I have given in the past few years have been done in this manner, but I have never had the motivation to put something together so that everything specific to the talk could reside in one file (excluding […]

I bought a new 15 inch Mac PowerBook G4 this week, eight years after having the worst computer buying experience of my life. The early results are encouraging enough for me to write some quick notes about the experience so far. First, a brief background story. Eight years ago in 1994, as a college student, […]

good bad attitiude, another great essay on programming and hacking. Discussion includes hacking, creativity, and the impact of our waning civil liberties.

I am currently contributing code and effort to the Dojo Toolkit project. The site was updated today to reveal a little about what we’re doing.

Numerous sites capture the onload event handler to move focus to a specific form field, usually for logging in (for example, My Yahoo!). Other sites will even clear the current text in the field in addition to providing focus (for example, American Express). However, they both exhibit a really annoying behavior: when the page is […]

The press has been speculating since the google ipo that there will now be a mass exodus of talent due to the new found wealth of google’s employees. So the press, in wanting to prove their point, believe they have their first data point with the departure of Evan Williams. However, anyone who can actually […]

Quirksmode.org has a great article on how to create the illusion of a styled input type=”file” element. This is a problem I tried to solve years ago, before the options presented here were really viable. This trick will probably put Michael McGrady on the map if he wasn’t already.

In 1954, this computer of the future (source) was predicted for 2004. One of my friends deadpanned: “I always wanted a steering wheel for my computer”

My thoughts on how to save SVG. Update: I have been persuaded by the community to point out that SVG is not dead, is gaining strong support in the cell phone market, and will finally be enabled by default in mozilla 1.8. SVG itself is a great and very promising technology… I am simply frustrated […]