May 29
Tim Bray on IE
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“I Blame Microsoft (I?ve always wanted to use that as a headline. Try it sometime, it feels good.) But really, I do. The problem isn?t that CSS is too hard. The problem isn?t browser incompatibilities in general. The problem is specifically that Microsoft Internet Explorer is a mouldering, out-of-date, amateurish, out-of-date pile of dung. Did I say it?s out-of-date? As in past its sell-by, seen better days, mutton dressed as lamb, superannuated, time-worn. It?s so, like, you know, so twentieth-century.”

- Not Rocket Science, Tim Bray

That really made my day :-D

Someone else (can’t remember who, remind me if you know) wrote some time ago: “IE, the new Netscape 4″. That’s almost as fun.

May 24
456 Berea Street
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Roger Johansson is a friend of mine and very knowledgable on web standards. And now he has joined to mainstream and started his own blog.

May 24
CSS tabs
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May 24
rdf.net
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Tim Bray wants to give away the domain rdf.net to the first person that actually creates a usable RDF application.

He also presents a new way to describe RDF tripples in XML called RPV. I’m not sure it’s all that much easier or more clear then RDF/XML. But that is probably because I actually like the namespace+element/attribute name syntax in RDF/XML.

The discussion on how to serialize RDF into XML has continued. Sjoerd Visscher had some comments and Tim Bray then responded. All of this is very interesting!

May 24
Steal this buttons galore
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The buttons from AntiPixel sure seems to have the power to replicate. Watch out!

[via MetaFilter]

May 23
Webmatrix teaser
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May 23
Next up in Safari
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David Hyatt is taking votes on the next standard to implement in Safari. The battle seems to be between XSLT, SVG and CSS3.

I think all of these are important but from my personal preferences I mostly do XSLT on the server and CSS3 is not yet ready. So, I would say that Apple should go for SVG. With the outstanding rendering with Quartz and the possibility to mix XHTML and SVG we should see some amazing new development in the web area. Safari would also be in the lead among all the major browsers by fully embrazing SVG in the core engine. Hopefully Mozilla will follow when/if the SVG stuff gets moved into the main branch. IE? Will we ever see a new version? Rumour has it that more developers work on MS Works then on IE.

May 23
SPARK
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SPARK looks like another attempt at doing GUI widgets for SVG. We really need a good library of re-usable widgets. I hope this project delivers where others have failed because it will be some time before we see RAX from SVG 1.2 in any widespread viewer.

May 23
Rewrite.NET
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May 23
Visio 2003 beta announced
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Microsoft has announced the upcoming beta of Visio 2003. From the early reports it comes with create import and export support for SVG. Can wait to try it out!

[via Sam Gentile]

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