TW Blog :: Archives for July 2003
I exist, and all that is not-I is mere phenomenon dissolving into phenomenal connectionsEdmund Husserl
A Blog Apology
Relates to Blogging
Finally for the night, a brief apology to anyone who does spill across my blog, and wishes to make a remark, since I have yet to incorporate a form based API for the comments within each Permalink.
Hopefully I will add this in the next few days, as well as looking at some different designs for my Web Log using DOM based stylesheet switches.
I will finish for the night with an emotionally driven quote bearing my sentiments for the current design predicament that still imposes critically on Web Standards advocates in this country.
Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Posted on Jul 01, 2003 at 02:54:15. [Comments for A Blog Apology- 0]
The Web Standards Bible
Relates to Web Standards and Accessibility
I must just recommend Zeldman's new publication Designing With Web Standards to everyone who has the slightest interest, or concern, over Web Standards and Accessibility. It is an excellent voyage through the thinking that has seen Web Design go full circle, with the table-design revolution of the late 90's now being firmaly replaced by the true vision of the Web - distinct structure and content. The prose is occassionally repetitive in the early chapters, but hopefully this will help get the point across to those who are slightly blind (excuse the pun!) to the work of the W3C and the Web Standards Project.
In a way it is a shame that IE is still so dominant on the browser market, since combining some of the more advanced features of CSS with well structured XHTML makes for an exciting prospect. Perhaps the Microsoft crew might take note of standards promulgations, and make a concerted effort to improve IE support for standards in its next release. Of course this is going to require the user market upgrade to whatever OS Microsoft release next. So I guess as a developer, it is extended play time on the far more pleasurable browsers from Mozilla and Opera for the foreseeable future.
Back to the Bible, grab your copy from Amazon and help educate your clients on the importance of Standards.
A Rosetta Stone of web design.Don Buckley, Senior Vice President, Warner Bros. Pictures
Posted on Jul 01, 2003 at 02:53:41. [Comments for The Web Standards Bible- 0]
Personal Promulgation
Relates to Peregrinations and Blogging
And so the journey begins.
It wasn't long after discovering Simon's excellent Blog that I was inspired to start my own Web Log. I felt it was time to start giving something back to the community from my own peregrinations around the Internet. At first I was tempted to give Movable Type a go, but never satisfied with just using other software, and constantly compelled to deconstruct code I get hold of, I decided to start with a Lockian-esque blank slate, figuring it would probably take a similar time to develop my own customised system than to learn the intricate details of a pre-packaged blogging tool.
Well, ok, I was a bit over zealous in my estimations, and it has taken longer than forecast to get a system up and running, but I have enjoyed the journey into the intricate workings of RSS builder classes in PHP and my first face-off with RDF.
I wanted to be able to write up my logs on my local machine, so to avoid unnecessary transfer of data between my local and remote MySQL databases, and tedious FTP tranfer of directories and files, I compiled a PHP script to run from the command prompt that will do all this for me.
So now I am quite excited! As I have been building and wandering the web, there are so many remarks I have wanted to make. Be they for my own satisfaction, or global consumption. So I hope my personal Blog may perhaps be of interest to you, and that perhaps some of my peripatetic path may help us all make new discoveries.
A flag moves. What is it that moves? Is it the flag or the wind?…Neither it is the mind that moves.Tibetan Mystic
Posted on Jul 01, 2003 at 02:40:21. [Comments for Personal Promulgation- 0]
