Ian Hickson on the Apple extensions, a really excellent write-up. He references and rebuts Eric’s proposal that I recently linked to and that was implemented by the Safari team. Found via Tim Bray’s thoughts.
More Image Toolbar
Surfing
I’m a strong believer in following random links every now and then. You’ll never know what you find.
BackupPC
BackupPC, the most thorough and capable backup system I’ve seen. I need to get this running this week now that my backup/storage server is online. This could backup my laptop using samba.
Hi-MD Topics
Hi-MD Topics FAQ, like a Minidisc but with 1GB of storage. (!)
Speedy DNS
Slashdot | Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates, very nice. This will make moving accounts between servers much more painless.
WordPress Modifications
Photography Composition Articles Library
Photography Composition Articles Library. Hat tip: Donncha.
WordPress Easter Egg
Carthik breaks one of the WordPress easter eggs, which is really more of a developer’s shortcut tool.
Malice and Incompetence
Revised Ad Policy
If you have left a comment on this site before, you should no longer be seeing the Google ads.
HTTP 1.1 Testimonials
HTTP 1.1 Testimonials, from when the IETF and W3C worked together.
Image Toolbar Header
I’m doing some code cleanup around here, and I came to a line in my <head> that is soley to work around an Internet Explorer feature I don’t want on my site.
Here is the standard way to remove it:
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
Since the http-equiv attribute is meant to be simply a document-level replacement for real HTTP headers, and I have the ability to send out real HTTP headers, I decided to try out removing this line and replacing it with this bit of PHP, which according to the spec is functionally equivilent:
<?php header ('imagetoolbar: no'); ?>
Looks funky, but according to the HTTP 1.1 specification user agents should ignore headers they don’t recognize, so there’s no harm. However in my testing I was disappointed (though not terribly surprised) to find that Internet Explorer did not respect the header. I have trimmed other parts of my markup quite a bit though, and I’m willing to sacrifice this one line.
Gallery: 7-11-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Bad ALT
Gallery: 7-10-2004
Auto-imported from old gallery:
Super-Efficient Image Rollovers
Super-Efficient Image Rollovers using javascript. This seems to be the JS predecessor to Pixy’s CSS-only fast rollovers.
Branded for life
Arabic
An Arabic WordPress blog. I have no idea on earth what it says though.
Contact Information
Tantek muses on contact information. One of my coding dreams has always been to sit down for a few months and write the perfect contact manager. I daydream about it sometimes and have a lot of the implementation worked out in my head. Imagine something like Plaxo, but distributed, not annoying, completely automatic, and with an infinitely flexible versioned backend. In fact, not like Plaxo at all.