Fed: Bolso : Web & Interfaces

Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:40:17 GMT

W3C Semantic Tour, Europe 10-24 June. 2 April 2003: W3C holds a series of one day events in Rome, London, Munich, Athens and Brussels from 10-24 June. The W3C Semantic Tour promotes W3C technologies that bring to the Web more effective discovery, automation, integration, and reuse of data. Organizers come from the W3C Italy, UK and Ireland, Germany, Greece and Benelux Offices. All events are open to the public and free of charge. (News archive) [World Wide Web Consortium]

1 april Safari Fool

Wed, 02 Apr 2003 15:47:19 GMT

Safari to Drop Table Support.
The next release of Safari will be fully embracing Web standards by dropping all support for tables. From now on, any pages that use tables will cause Safari to play a very loud raspberry sound and refuse to display the page.

[Surfin' Safari]

E io che mi auguravo che fosse vero...

Weblogs, power laws and content [en]

Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:19:35 GMT

A long article by Clay Shirky about Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality has been creating a great buzz in BlogLand these days (see insteresting reactions by Dave Winer or Mark Pilgrim) While I find interesting the observation about power laws on a wide range of community as BBSs, mail-list, newsgroup and websites compared to weblogs I notice that a real serach for causes of inequality is missing. Clay observes that for the sole reason that a first blogger is linked by a second blogger, a third blogger is inducted in linking the first one. This of course can lead to a sort of "automatic fame" in a pyramidal way but it misses a point: the content of the majoriry of the bloggers' posts is news. News are not in an infinite number every day (even though there are many) so when the well-known bloggers have posted the same news references the game is over, at least for newbies. Lazyness, shyness and other reasons prevent the less-known blogger to say something new, to search for a not-so-referenced news or to create something original, even only by commenting that news. In other words, being a blogger means having something to say and it is not so easy when the blogger world is so largely populated and you are a newcomer. News aggregators are a great tools but often they could transform you in a mere news-firer, not an original content producer. This is why I mean my blog as my personal notebook, for 3, 5 or 3500 readers, it doesn't matter :)

HelloWorld - a complex desktop?

Mon, 03 Feb 2003 00:19:25 GMT

HelloWorld is a project for a Desktop replacement. It looks very interesting (check the screenshots), something I would definetly like to play with. What I'm wondering is how much will it take to move from one visual metaphor to another. In history of computing it has never happened: we moved from command line, which was not visual, to icons, windows, menus and trash cans back in 1984 and we are still here, with just a few more colors and soft shadows behind our windows. [via MacSlash] [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

I tried to forget this news before Paolo's post reminded me of it. I'm afraid I can't avoid to try this new multi-media/multi-source way of looking at my virtual desktop. :-)

Il weblog che fa tutto da solo

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:47:11 GMT

Un'interessante riflessione di Mark Pilgrim

Auto-content. Why does this cite-link-quote ("hit-and-run") style of weblogging need to be a manual process at all? Why can't I just click an "auto-content" button and have my software automatically generate a list of, say, a dozen interesting links and quotes culled from my aggregator subscriptions, "neighboring" sites, sites discussing the hot topics of the day, and mainstream articles reporting on a small hard-coded list of additional topics? (678 words) [dive into mark]

mette in evidenza l'eccesso di automatismo dei meccanismi di weblog: tra notizie, trackback e altre amenità, propone di eliminare del tutto l'intervento umano.

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:32:46 GMT

CSS 2.1 Working Draft Published. 29 January 2003: Answering comments received during Last Call, the CSS Working Group has released an interim Working Draft of Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 Revision 1 (CSS 2.1). Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language used to render structured documents like HTML and XML on screen, on paper, and in speech. The draft brings CSS2 in line with implementations and CSS2 errata, and removes obsolete features. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive) [World Wide Web Consortium]

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:30:54 GMT

VoiceXML 2.0 Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation. 28 January 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 10 April. VoiceXML uses XML to bring synthesized speech, spoken and touch-tone input, digitized audio, recording, telephony, and computer-human conversations to the Web. Read the press release and testimonials. Visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive) [World Wide Web Consortium]

Il Virus che ha rallentato Internet (se ancora non lo sapete)

Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:25:25 GMT

Ecco la rassegna stampa più completa che il mio news aggregator mi ha offerto:

SQL virus reports.
7AM Pacific. Heard a report on NPR that some kind of Internet-wide denial of service attack is underway. They quote Microsoft saying it's serious. If you have more information, esp Web pages I can point to, please post a comment on my Radio weblog. Thanks.

Reports: CNN, BBC, Slashdot, Beta News, Google.

Freedom.Org: "Quick fix is to firewall port 1434/UDP traffic, and reboot the affected SQL servers."

Slashdot: "If you run Microsoft SQL Server, make sure the public Internet can't access it."

Beta News: "The attack used a buffer overflow to execute code on a vulnerable SQL Server, causing that system to randomly seek out other computers to infect and in the process consume massive amounts of bandwidth."

Anne Bradstreet: "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
[Scripting News]

Believe it or not

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:04:04 GMT

Dive into Internet-no-more-free

Premium. Announcing "Dive Into Premium", a subscription-based service to get the most out of "dive into mark" and other sites in the "Dive Into" empire. Click here for more details on this exciting offer. (173 words) [dive into mark]

Reading this full lenght parody is making me really ROTFL! :)

A less standard-compliant Mark

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:09:58 GMT

Parse at all costs. It takes balls to write an article for XML.com demonstrating how to parse an XML-based format without an XML parser. (954 words) [dive into mark]

Requirements for XML Schema 1.1 Published

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:52:52 GMT

Requirements for XML Schema 1.1 Published. 21 January 2003: The XML Schema Working Group has released the first public Working Draft of Requirements for XML Schema 1.1. Schemas are technology for specifying and constraining the structure of XML documents. The draft adds functionality and clarifies the XML Schema Recommendation Part 1 and Part 2. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive) [World Wide Web Consortium]

Knowing who Hixie is

Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:40:22 GMT

Why does it matter?. Jay Allen complains that I don't say who I am. So I added an "About Me" link at the top. Jay also implies that without RSS, computers can't read a site. This rather misses the point, though. XHTML is just as computer readable as RSS, in fact, as others have said in the past, XHTML really should be used instead of RSS. [Hixie's Natural Log] E infatti avevo cercato un link "about me" tutta ieri notte...

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:54:54 GMT

The one I've never tried. I am now using mod_rewrite-based browser sniffing to work around CSS bugs in different browsers. I am aware that this is a complete reversal from my position last week, when I claimed that CSS hackery was the lesser of two evils. To (mis)quote Mae West: "Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." (274 words) [dive into mark]

Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:53:55 GMT

Body IDs. My page logo is identical on all pages (it's patched in with server-side includes), but I've always wanted a way to distinguish it on different pages. But, I don't want to maintain half a dozen different stylesheets either. I finally figured out how to do it. (177 words) [dive into mark]

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:35:41 GMT

W3C Launches Timed Text Working Group. 17 January 2003: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) within the SYMM (Synchronized Multimedia) Activity. The TTWG is chartered to develop an XML based format used to represent streamable text synchronized with timed media like audio or video. Movie captions on the Web are a typical timed text application. Read the group's charter and more about the Synchronized Multimedia Activity. (News archive) [World Wide Web Consortium]

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:38:48 GMT

Sjoerd Visscher: "XHTML, and specifically version 2.0, is a perfect dataformat for weblogs." [Scripting News]