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I’m working on my first Firefox extension - an attempt to get Firefox to support some version of XPointer that will work on HTML documents. Click To Read More...

As an update to yesterday’s post I thought I’d elucidate what I’ve learned about XPointer. Click To Read More...

There’s a lot going on in the HTML Working Group mailing list right now about opt-in mechanisms for HTML5, discussions with smart people like Chris Wilson (co-chair and Microsoft IE champion) and Ian Hickson (WHATWG champion). I’ve going to sidestep the polemics for now - I’ve been trying to distill my own thoughts on that big debate, but things are still swirling around in my head because I’m still learning about the history of HTML, quirks mode, standards mode, DOCTYPEs, etc. Instead, I’m just going to write a (hopefully) quick entry on something I just figured out today. Click To Read More...

Early in 2005 I started getting interested in SVG, a web standard for vector graphics on web pages. My efforts in this direction were first sparked by a friend and later by the fact that modern browsers like Firefox and Opera have introduced SVG support. This entry is to serve as a guide so people can learn from my experiences. It was originally published in Dec 2005, but I will continue to update it as more items occur to me. It was last updated in Jan 2007.

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Via Ajaxian comes this article discussing the merits of custom XML attributes instead of over-loading the class attribute for functional purposes. Click To Read More...

Funny, Dave’s post and the subsequent excellent discussion have probably inadvertently pushed JSON’s awareness level a little higher (based on all the positive exclamations of discovery in that thread), more people will end up using JSON now, thanks to Dave’s ignorance. Click To Read More...

Apparently Firefox 2 is ignoring any style sheets that web site authors may have specified in their web feeds (RSS/Atom). It took me a few hours of idle contemplation to decide how I felt about it, so here goes. Click To Read More...