Dylan Schiemann

How do you measure success in the world of blogging? Well, in the case of Athletics Nation, you can say you’re a success when you land something really unique… in this case, an exclusive interview with Billy Beane, the well-known GM of the Oakland A’s.

Recap of the BayChi Rich Internet Applications Discussion on August 10 at PARC. Reading the technology tea-leaves: Is a Rich Internet Application in your future? David Temkin, Laszlo Systems Mike Sundermeyer, Macromedia Jim Hobart, Classic Systems Solutions Ethan Diamond and Iain Lamb, Oddpost PARC This seminar began with an opening set of slides with way […]

The day began at Google building 44 with a brief introduction by Mitchell Baker about how well the mozilla foundation is doing. It was also rumored that mozilla is going to leave the software business and enter the t-shirt business after selling an astounding 15,000 shirts at Linux World and OSCON. The mozilla developer day […]

Well stated, disturbing quote from TiVo vs. the Broadcast Flag Wavers: “The MPAA and the NFL phrase their objections as reasonable attempts to err on the side of caution. ‘We’re asking them to just wait awhile, let’s think it out more thoroughly,’ Attaway said. “But if a programmer or an engineer with a bright idea […]

Being the elitest that I am, I like to poke fun at people who make the statement: “I designed this site entirely in css”. Recently, the designer of the newly launched mozilla store proclaimed that it was the first site he had designed entirely in css. Sure, CSS is a language used to describe presentational […]

I was recently invited by David to setup a G-mail account. The system is currently by far the best e-mail interface of the major web mail providers, though that lead may diminish with Yahoo’s recent acquisition of OddPost. The main reason is that Google uses JavaScript and XMLHttpRequests to update data, rather than loading a […]

Because of mozilla’s superior user experience and security, and Internet Explorer’s ongoing slew of security holes, numerous organizations have recently recommend switching away from IE, including the Department of Homeland Security, CERT, Security Focus, Open for Business, and even Microsoft’s own Slate Magazine.

I was recently thinking out loud that Google should punish web sites with markup that are not well-formed, invalid, and/or excessive in their use of presentational markup. Then it occurred to me that, in fact, they already do (excluding really large, popular web sites). They just don’t explicitly say that they do. Instead, what they […]

The W3C recently held a Workshop on Web Applications. Opera and mozilla have formed the Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group. Microsoft is trying to force xaml upon the world. Things are getting interesting again.

Daniel Glazman has added an entry about three ways to emulate getElementsByClass. Of course, there’s another method if your document is xhtml: use xpath like this… function getElementByClassName(needle) { var xpathResult = document.evaluate(‘//*[@class = “‘needle’”]’, document, null, 0, null); var outArray = new Array(); var item; while (item = xpathResult.iterateNext()) outArray[outArray.length] = item; return outArray; […]