Scalable Vector Graphics aren‘t quite mainstream, but they are (slowly) making inroads with native support in some browsers and mobile devices. I think they’d be The Coolest Thing on Earf if the SVG specification were widely supported. Internet Explorer and Safari, however, don’t yet offer SVG support.1 But we won’t let that stop us. What [...]
[18 Sep 2006]
This is my first attempt at parsing XML using ActionScript. The stuff between the <pre> and </pre> tags is released to the public domain. Do what you will with it. Be aware though, that I can’t offer technical support … mostly because I don’t know enough to help you. First, the XML: <alldots> <dotname id=”bigDot” [...]
[18 Jul 2006]
I mentioned this briefly in the Atlanta PHP May meeting post. Structured blogging is an intiative to provide a standard format for blogging about particular forms of content. The idea is to make it easier to share particular bits of microcontent by publishing it in a consistent form. The Structured Blogging team has developed plugins [...]
[1 May 2006]
Via O’Reilly Radar → John Ressig: Traffic via RSS. This is supposed to be a Mac OS X dashboard feature. But it works just fine with Bloglines too. Ressig’s site will let fill out a form and bake your own feed. Georgians, if that’s too complicated for you, Georgia Navigator also offers feeds.
[3 May 2005]
I recently created a style sheet for my rss feed, just to make it look pretty. So I learned a thing or two about creating style sheets for XML documents. Using CSS with XML is essentially the same as using it for (X)HTML. But remember: XML elements don’t have predefined box behavior, you have to [...]
[2 May 2005]
Let aggregator services find your feed automatically. Just add one the following lines to your document header: For RSS 2.0: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Title of your feed (RSS 2.0)" href="url_of_feed.xml" /> For RSS 0.92: <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="Title of your feed (RSS .92)" href="url_of_feed.xml" /> And for Atom: <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Title of your feed [...]
[21 Apr 2005]
And this makes me smile. Read the story. You can get started with SVG in a number of ways, including by hand, with Adobe Illustrator 10 and CorelDraw, or by downloading the open source SVG editor Inkscape. Previously: Fun with Scalable Vector Graphics
[12 Apr 2005]
Jesse James Garrett breaks down the Next. Big. Thing. in web application development: AJAX. Ajax stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript + XML.” As Garrett explains: Ajax isn’t a technology. It?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS; dynamic display and [...]
[22 Feb 2005]
Via Hardscrabble: A CNet.com article on what RSS is and why it’s important. (Okay, so I’m late to the party on this article.)• Other posts on RSS
[3 Oct 2004]