Tuesday 24th Jun 2008, 10:03pm
Posted under Uncategorized
I was a little staggered to find just now, while searching for ‘Firefox’ in Live Search, a whole page of results pointing to Firefox 2. I suppose it’s possible their indexing is just really, really slow (Firefox 3 has been out a week now), but none of the links on the first page were even [...]
I wasn’t that great of a fan of the “Web 2.0″ style trend for the reflection effect (as pioneered by Apple). Too often it’s executed poorly, and just smacks of trying to look cool without putting too much thought into the actual design. (Yes, I realise I’m quite one to talk.) I think, though, that [...]
There are any number of blogs and, more specifically, people around discussing the finer points of web design at all levels, from low-level technical matters to high-level interface interactions. The Web is excellent, largely, at self-analysis, reconceptualisation and experimentation - it could, of course, be better, but it’s true to say that the dominant idioms [...]
I’d like to follow through on my anti-XFN rant with a series of, thankfully, smaller posts on the subject. I’d like to be able to offer some useful discussion as to what indeed can be done for relationship portability on the Web.
For now, though:
XFN defines rel-contact as being applicable to someone whom you “know how [...]
Thursday 3rd Apr 2008, 1:30pm
Posted under Web things that must die, xfn
Tags: identity, microformats, SXSW, xfn
I wanted to write about this subject last October, prior to my recent confidence boost that has enabled me to start putting my words out there properly. At the time, a hunt around the webs didn’t seem to reveal much resistance to XFN - the microformat for relationships that’s been around since 2003 or so [...]