Scripting News

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:21:25 GMT

Backend: Formats for Blog Browsers. "I'd like to tell you a story about how I tripped over what may turn out to be a very interesting common feature of weblog software."

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:53:38 GMT

John Robb shares a key perspective. If we use new software to browse weblogs (see above), there will come a day when you won't need to render and upstream content to have it be publicly accessible and retain full control of it on your desktop. We will have routed around the Microsoft browser monopoly, and then a new round of innovation can start. ";->"

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:18:09 GMT

Joshua Allen: "The spec was aimed at coders rather than purists, and several quality implementations appeared almost overnight. And it worked! And nobody died!"

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:41:48 GMT

Stephanie Kesler: "For many of us, our first adult experience with the process of death occurs when one our parents dies. I know this sounds bizarre, but I think their experience of death is perhaps one of their last gifts to us."

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:30:45 GMT

One of the reasons I like Halley so much is that she breaks the code about women for clueless men like me.

Tue, 26 Nov 2002 00:59:21 GMT

Are there differences between the genders? Yes there are, of course.

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:35:43 GMT

Juha Haataja: "It may be a singularly Finnish trait that when giving positive feedback we tend to insult the recipient a bit. This way the recipient feels that you didn't offer you encouragement only because you wanted to be polite."

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:46:22 GMT

Last year on this day: "HTTP had to be graspable by a single mind, because it was designed by a single mind."