mnot’s Web log

Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Friday, January 27 2006

And Now for Something Completely Different

For the past three and a half years, I’ve learned a lot, had a tremendous amount of fun, and made some really good friends working at BEA Systems in...

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Wednesday, January 25 2006

Little Orange “feed” Buttons

About two years ago, I got a little grouchy about those little orange XML buttons, and exhorted people to label them properly with RSS. Then came along a little...

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Monday, January 23 2006

How Web-Ready is XMLHttpRequest?

I’ve been playing around with some ideas that use XMLHttpRequest recently, but I keep on bumping up against implementation inconsistencies on IE vs. Safari vs. Opera vs. Mozilla. Although...

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Friday, January 13 2006

Para publicadores de conteúdos e Webmasters

The RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters has been translated to Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to the efforts of Maurício Samy Silva. Note that while the title says “RSS”,...

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Wednesday, January 11 2006

Safari and Content Sniffing

It took two years, but Apple has finally taken steps to limit Safari’s content-sniffing ways; Safari now displays certain documents that have text/plain headers as plain text rather than...

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Monday, January 9 2006

Making headway on OPTIONS

On the heels of mod_cgi, PHP now does the right thing (at least in 5.1) when setting the Allow header. mod_dav is still broken, though. Backstory here....

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Sunday, January 8 2006

Colour Management in OSX

After hearing about how I lusted after Bob’s D100 in Japan last November, Anitra kindly splurged on a Nikon D50 for my birthday, and I was re-introduced to serious...

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