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Solving the “silent data loss” problem in RSS 2.0 (via) RSS to take inspiratiom from Atom?
Repro, Man. “... the age of Word’s code base has surpassed the legal drinking age in all 50 states.”
Edward Tufte: Sparklines. An entire chapter from E.T.’s forthcoming book “Beautiful Evidence”.
Daring Fireball: Security Cannot Be Spun. Apple’s communication handling of the recent security problem was atrocious.
Everything Can be a Link with Mozilla’s window.getSelection() Method and the W3C DOM Range API (via) Impressive is an understatement.
Pink Numbers [dive into mark]. Because you can’t go wrong with even more blog clutter.
A note on testing classNames in Konqueror and MSN/Mac (via) Apparently running a regex on .className can cause problems if an element has no class.
Id-Ego-Superego. Web service that adds ID attributes to HTML and XHTML documents.
The Internet Slum (via) I can’t decide if this is pessimistic, realistic or both.
’Purple Numbers" show a need for better linking tools (via) He’s right of course, but for granular linking to be useful it has to work in today’s browsers.
More Purple Haze. Jonas Luster is tracking the purple numbers discussion.
Ubiquitious Fragment Identifiers. mnot reveals his ID anchors using CSS generated content.
Sam Ruby: Détente. Absolute required reading for anyone with an interest in syndication.
Neowin Interview: Ben Goodger from the Mozilla Foundation. FireFox 0.9 will only be a 4.9 MB download.
How to debug JavaScript using MS script editor. This kind of comment is why I will never implement comment registration or anything like it.
An Intelligent Nim Computer Game, Part 1 (via) Implementing game AI in Java.
Building large strings in PHP. Unlike Python, concatenation is faster than array joining.
EclipsePlugins (via) Eclipse is the only IDE I’ve ever used that has actually increased my productivity.
FreeBSD Info Files. In HTML, Postscript, PDF and ASCII.
Rounded Corners with CSS and JavaScript. In which I attempt to show that you CAN have your cake and eat it too.
TextDrive: An Offer [SOLD OUT]. Dena Allen’s new hosting service gets off to an impressive start.
Rejecting rejection letters (via) “Please do not regard this letter as a criticism of your qualifications in attempting to refuse me employment. I wish you the best of luck in rejecting future candidates.”
XMLHttpRequest and Javascript Closures. Harry gets intimate with Mozilla’s XMLHttpRequest object.
Notes on the comp.lang.javascript FAQ. Kind of like an appendix.
Javascript Closures. Notes on Closures.
Closures and executing JavaScript on page load. I’ve tried to explain closures on my SitePoint blog, using addLoadEvent() as an example.
Some notes on the “Who wrote Linux” Kerfuffle (via) More from Andy Tanenbaum.
Background Images Security Flaw? Styling :visited links can reveal a user’s browser history.
Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song (via) Which, if broadcast, will cost a quarter of a million dollars in fines.
Beautiful Soup (via) Ultra Liberal Python HTML/XHTML parser.