Andre Venter: Devopen endsClosing the loop on XHTML blog content- August 27, 2003 James Farmer asks about the difference between WYSIWYG XML and HTML editing: Jon's Radio<a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/08/27.html#a783 das Blog - open source and written in ASP.NET- August 27, 2003 "This is no "for money" product. We have developed that for our own needs and because we are educators and will use this code base in excercises with our students and therefore will give it away for them to play with, anyways, we can just as well share it with the rest of the folks out there, too.This is "free software" without the politics. The software license we chose for DasBlog is plain and simple: BSD. You may use, modidy and redistribute our stuff as long as you keep us out of trouble...http://www.dasblog.net/documentation/CategoryView.aspx?category=Overview SimpleBits CSS Photo Zoom- August 27, 2003 After reading Pixy's clever Fast rollovers, no preload needed method for using a single background image for multiple hover states, it got me thinking. What if the concept was used to offer a zoomed view of a thumbnail image, right inline on the page, again using a single image(via MovableBlog) Roland Tanglao's Webloghttp://www.simplebits.com/archives/2003/08/22/css_photo_zoom.html The Design Council- August 27, 2003 The UK's Design Council aims to help people and organisations understand and use design more effectively. As part of this strategy they have an excellent About Design section on their site which focuses on design issues such as user centered design, information design, interaction design and inclusive (or accessible) design. They also run a number of sister sites... Andy Budd::Blogographyhttp://www.andybudd.com/blog/archives/000032.html The value of design- August 27, 2003 In my expirience most people view design as a superficial thing. It's about making something look nice, be that a business card, a brochure or a website. This is why many web designers jump straight into Photoshop when they get a new commission, and why clients expect to see designs before any requirements have been set. People just don't get... Andy Budd::Blogographyhttp://www.andybudd.com/blog/archives/000033.html Standards don't necessarily have anything to do with being semantically correct- August 27, 2003 Since the push toward good HTMLCSSXHTML standards started a few years ago, browsers have gotten better at rendering standards-compliant code correctly and web designers have gotten better at writing standards-compliant code. Safari and Mozilla in particular have made great gains in rendering code correctly and folks like Todd Dominey, Dave Shea, Dan Cederholm, and Doug Bowman (the four Ds) have built great-looking and usable sites with standards-compliant code and then...... kottke.orghttp://www.kottke.org/03/08/030826standards_do.html Exploration and discovery- August 27, 2003 This week's column on dynamic languages, and its associated blog entry, provoked some interesting reactions. From Don Box: Jon's Radiohttp://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/08/26.html#a782 New Flavour Model for Blosxom- August 26, 2003 Rael Dornfest, (who I assume is the creator of Blosxom) incorporated a few suggestion I had for improving Blosxom 'Flavours' (themes). Instead of 4-5 text files spread around in the root folder, he has boiled a template down to 1 file stored in its own folder, inside a themes folder. This is going to be a much cleaner system, and now Blosxom has a standard model for themes with component parts, like images and css files. Simply store your images in the same folder as the theme file, and they...http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blosxom/message/4011 XML-to-string converter (in XSLT)- August 26, 2003 0xDECAFBAD Quick linkhttp://www.xmlportfolio.com/xml-to-string/ MetaWeblog API- August 26, 2003 "It is now safe to deploy applications based on this spec." Scripting Newshttp://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi |