mnot’s Web log

“Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Wednesday, November 27 2002

Mozilla Prefetching

I'm extremely wary about the new prefetching feature in Mozilla. The Web caching community has tried this from about every angle, but the general consensus of professionals (with one...

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Tuesday, November 26 2002

Eh?

Hixie, Mark and others are talking about serving up application/xhtml+xml selectively to browsers. One question; how do you do this without either doing the wrong thing (e.g., if a shared...

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Monday, November 25 2002

What is an RSS Channel?

Almost forgot - today I put an exploration of the semantics of RSS:Channel out there for comment. I've been thinking about various aspects of this for a while; not sure...

RSS XP

RSS: XHTML Profile, to me, is another proof that syntax isn't important, as long as you can boil whatever you get down to a format you know. Nice job!...

Sunday, November 17 2002

New toys

We just replaced our phones with Sony Ericsson T300s with T-Mobile; sooo cool. I've never really been interested in WAP, WML, etc., but now the floodgates have opened. Unfortunately, there...

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Saturday, November 16 2002

RDF Model and Syntax

Jack William Bell makes a precise, short and readable effort at explaining why RDF is simple and important. In the article and subsequent discussion, it's clear that RDF model and...

Sunday, November 10 2002

IETF Transparency

Finally, the IESG puts its money where its mouth is; this tool allows you to see the status and individual AD's comments about a particular I-D. It's only a start,...

Friday, November 1 2002

You Are Crazy.

unböring is a great campaign - I'd love to know who their agency is. It's so... Swedish; the one with the creamer and the guy on the bicycle is classic....