Archive for the 'Web Standards' Category
How to buy a standard in 10 days
If anyone else out there is stunned that yesterday’s ISO approval of Microsoft’s OOXML document format was not an April Fool’s joke, James Hogarth has an excellent recap of the entire saga entitled How to buy a standard in 10 days.
Unfuckingbelievable. Here’s hoping countries raise formal protests; if not, office document formats will remain incompatible […]
RestructuredText, Markdown, and Textile (and typography)
When I first discovered Dean Allen’s Textile I thought it was god’s gift to light-weight markup languages. For the next two years I used it everywhere possible, even so much as to write a few school papers (in part) using the syntax. It was trying to use textile for non-web purposes that finally removed my blinders to alternatives.
Cool URIs don’t change; so what’s considered ‘cool’?
I’ve given a lot of thought, lately, to the famous Cool URIs don’t change W3C document. Should URLs end in a slash or not? Should they end in a file-extension or not? (What if you’re serving multiple formats of the same document?)
I’ve been using a trailing slash (for, admittedly, no defensible reason: the Django guys […]
Learning Django with IPython
IPython is invaluable for learning Django if you don’t know much about Python or anything about object-oriented prgramming.
Web Typography, Bringhurst-style
Read The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web at http://webtypography.net/. A great project devoted to a wonderful book.