Dylan Schiemann

I had never considered using XQuery for generating html and xml. Until now.

LawMeme summary of SearchKing v. Google case, an interesting read even if you have little to no interest in law.

SitePen client West Coast Internet is offering a replacement DSL service for former DirectTV DSL customers, a service that is being discontinued.

“The Checky plug-in is an simple Interface for web content and resource developers to free and commercial online Validator and Checker services.”

Tom’s Hardware article on building stable computers. Great information on choosing components (where and where not to cut costs), assembling the system, installing software, and testing. The first really good article I’ve seen in a while on building a reliable computer.

An article describing the benefits and shortcomings of using DOM mutations events in SVG. Much of the recent innovation in JavaScript is closely coupled with SVG. Unfortunately, mozilla and IE do not yet come by default with native SVG support.

I’ve been using mozilla1.3 alpha for a while, and I couldn’t figure out why the spam algorithm would stop working after a day or two. Well, it turns out in addition to having to manually mark messages as spam, you also have to explicitly mark messages as not spam. In retrospect, this sounds obvious, but […]

A Washington Post article describes mozilla as the best hope for better e-mail software in outlining mozilla’s addition of spam filters, palm address synchronization, and saved searches.

A short extension proposal for z-index: keywords for above all other stacked boxes, and below all other stacked boxes. Use case is if you don’t know in advance how many boxes you’ll be stacking, but you know you want a certian box to be above all the others. Rather than picking a very large z-index, […]

This article describes using the DOM 2 Range with JavaScript and describes its support in mozilla. I put this together rather quickly and it isn’t very robust, but it is better than nothing. Send bugs and comments to mail[@]dylans.org (without the brackets) Overview: A Range selects all content between a pair of boundary points, and […]