Jan 20, 2003
A new page of Get Your War On strips was posted yesterday, including some scathing remarks on the United States’ Sanctity of Human Life Day.
WOMAN: If my daughters were systematically raped as part of a war crime, could I counsel them about abortion? Or would … Read more
Jan 19, 2003
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Jan 19, 2003
Having written and vocalised against a new war in Iraq, I felt that I should support my opinion with action and so took part in Saturday’s “No War on Iraq” peace march here in Toronto, which operated on the same day as Read more
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
Making the case for the SEC mandate that “most ABS issuers file a computer program that gives effect to the flow of funds, or ‘waterfall,’ provisions of the transaction [and that] the computer program be filed on EDGAR in the form of downloadable source code in Python.”
Imagine a world with government-backed usage of … Read more
This slick presentation about HTML5 is itself written in HTML5. While originally written for Google Chrome, most of it works fine in Safari.
Canvas2Image is a small library that saves a WHATWG canvas element as a bitmap.
ZingChart not only provides a wide range of attractive HTMl5 and Flash charts, but also PNG export. The export had some label placement bugs in the demo, but this looks promising. The charts configuration is formatted in JSON.
“jQuery Tools is a collection of the most important user-interface components for today’s websites. This single JavaScript file weighs only 5.72 Kb.” There’s some slick UI components here for tabs, tooltips, overlays, exposé functionality, scrolling widgets and flash embeds.