Jan 21, 2003
Dive Into Mark: New news aggregator for Windows. Following Mark’s lead, I started using Syndirella for my news feeds. I was using AmphetaDesk before, which was OK once I installed the outliner plugin but it still wasn’t up to scratch.
Among other things, AmphetaDesk lacked a liberal RSS parser, RSS auto-discovery … Read more
Jan 19, 2003
Frustrated with interesting weblogs which don’t provide an RSS feed? Can’t be bothered to write the authors and explain why syndication is in their and their readers’ best interests? No problem, Syndic8 will do it for you!
Jan 13, 2003
Dive Into Mark: Semantic Obsolescence. Mark is pissed about the removal of the cite tag from XHTML 2.0 and, frankly, so am I. However, bear in mind that XHTML 2.0 is still a working draft, so there’s still time for cite to be added back in. Mark isn’t the only one who … Read more
Jan 13, 2003
The Fishbowl: When is a constant not a constant?. Charles Miller posts one of those “Guess what this code does” challenges, and it’s in Java. I prayed that I wasn’t right, but was sickened when I ran the code and discovered the worst. Ugh. I’m not all … Read more
Jan 9, 2003
The Web Standards Project: Check, please!. Checky is a Mozilla add-on which facilitates document validation through one of 18 different services. The validation service is selected through the context menu and the current page is validated in a new window or tab. What’s more, you can bundle several services to … Read more