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New user? Monday, February 18, 2002
Another upstreamed page
This page was upstreamed from a text file on my hard drive into Conversant's CMS by an experimental upstreaming driver for Radio UserLand. :-)
RE: A few details about upstreaming to Conversant
I've just upstreamed some details about my Conversant upstreaming driver.
Publishing content to my CMS is so easy now it's beyond belief. Thank you to UserLand for this wonderful open system and for writing such complete documentation!
And it goes without saying Conversant's robustness and insanely great XML-RPC API made this not only possible but simple.
Call for ideas / validation
There's a tricky part of the design of the upstreamer and I could use some advice. Please take a look at this and let me know if you have solution...
Help! How to deal with moved/renamed files? (with a proposal)
Thanks!
Sunday, February 17, 2002
Mental Hurdles to CSS
Dave Winer: Hurdles CSS must overcome
What problems is he talking about, and who's having them? I must have missed part of the conversation. I want to know the problems, that's how I learn. If I can't find any people demonstrating problems, I have to discount this as FUD (because I haven't been having problems in my experimenting).
Big mistake
OMG is Ev getting screwed over royally by PayPal or what?
PayPal screwed up big time when the decided to fuck with Ev. Not that he's some psycho mafia guy, but he's got a reputation and a high flow web site that a lot of web professionals read. That's just not the kind of person you want to screw with if you're a company that depends on word-of-mouth viral propogation to survive.
chimera
chimera: screenshots (this and the Ev link via HTP)
Awesome, a Mozilla-based browser with a Cocoa front-end!
Saturday, February 16, 2002
Damn fine Roots
Rafe notes that "If you've been watching the Olympics, you know that the Canadians have the best outfits.".
:-)
A lot of people have been talking about Roots and the Canadian team's fashion (which also kicked ass in Nagano, btw).
I read a story a couple days ago about Roots' big win because of the Sale/Pelletier story. I found it in Google's cache but can't find an URL that still works. Oh, I just found it (it was a CP story, so I found it on myBC.com):
CP: Roots enjoys windfall at Olympics thanks in part to skating controversy
"The whole camaraderie between Canada and the United States has been solidified.""
Another interesting story about Roots/Canadians:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: OH, CANADA: U.S. DRAWN BY FASHION AND CONTROVERSY
Hey, Canadian Girls Rule, I thought everyone knew that. ;-)
;-(
I can get Roots garb dirt cheap here in Canada. I can't believe the prices people are paying for it on eBay! Want some? ;-)
Joel reveals The Iceberg Secret
Joel on Software - The Iceberg Secret, Revealed
Ugh. So many violent memories come into focus reading that piece. I couldn't finish it. Maybe later. But he's right, Customers Don't Know What They Want.
FOX killing Futurama
I found the Can't get enough Futurama site via the blogdex sidebar.
I didn't realize that FOX was killing Futurama. That sucks! I love that show! :-(
There's a petition you can sign that may or may not actually help in saving the show.
Waaahhh!
Meglander Zoonut
I found a link to Megnut today on Scripting News and decided to see what she had today.
Maybe it's lame to point to people who agree with me instead of disagree with me, but since I haven't said it myself it's not like I'm really being redundant. She said it better than I would have. What did she say? She liked Zoolander, and also likes Office Space (though that's far less controversial IMHO :-))
I loved both movies (Office Space was better obviously).
More CSS talk
Over time I'm finding more of the talk about CSS for layout/design that happened recently. Good links and info on these pages or from these pages:
Jeff's Radio Weblog, Feb 13th / Glish: CSS layout techniques / CSS Koolaid for Newbies
And now an observation... (this isn't a flame, it's not even "pushback")
Many people have remarked that they don't understand why Dave Winer "doesn't get it" w.r.t. CSS vs. table layouts. I have noticed instances where Userland poo-poos a technology, method or standard that is otherwise overwhelmingly favoured... which is not easy to implement or otherwise would not perform well in Frontier for one reason or another.
In this (CSS, tableless) situation, Userland has a LOT of HTML hard-coded in scripts... in Manila, Radio and the fundamental "HTML Framework" which dates back to what, 1995? And a lot of that HTML doesn't validate as valid HTML4 or XHTML, as designers will remark. And not surprisingly, there's a lot of HTML Table code in there. If Userland jumped on the CSS bandwagon they'd find themselves crushed under an avalanche of work to make their products compatible with "the movement". Work which... frankly won't do much to improve their bottom line right now. And that's the bottom line.
So don't be surprised, and don't read too much into there not being unanimous support for CSS layout at the moment. AND, let's credit Userland for doing a CSS theme for Manila and commisioning the Radio-Design group on Yahoo! Groups.
and still more...
The first web browser was graphical. It was a NeXTStep application written by Tim Berners-Lee.
(I don't think he meant layoutless, but I could be wrong!)
Layout is essential in many ways. If it wasn't important CSS wouldn't exist. I don't think hypertext or hyperlinking in HTML suffers because of tables of lack of semantic structure, but it sure could if you're talking XML.
Happy Faces
Yahoo! News Photos - Reuters... picture of the Canadian Women's speedskating suits in the World Championships.
I told you Canadian Girls Rule. :-) Shake what your mama gave you!
TLS for Frontier/Radio
Macrobyte Resources announces a TLS extension for Frontier/Radio!
Macrobyte: Transport Layer Security
Sweet!
