Before the weekend W3C announced that the XHTML2 Working Group would be discontinued. That hardly came as any surprise, and mixed with that feeling of relief and melancholy the death of a terminally ill patient may elicit. To me XHTML2 was the next HTML3, […]
Author: jaxroam
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
This was a comment on a New Scientist piece, Linking genes to geography could revive race myth. The concept of human races that most of us have grown up with has been shown to be at best simplified or misleading and at worst completely […]
Opera Unite: Web Untied
The most revolutionary new feature in Opera 10 is also among the oldest. In this case, while the teaser promising a reinvented Web may have been over the top, the hype is factual. Opera Unite is a revolution, among other wheels in motion. My […]
The 20th century just died after prolonged illness
J. G. Ballard
CSS today, yesterday, and tomorrow
I held a CSS talk at CVUT a week or so ago.
155102: Losing data with Firefox 3 and Opera 10 Alpha
It doesn’t really matter much these days which browser you are using. On the whole I find Opera less annoying to use than Firefox, and Opera additionally has some nice perks like better keyboard access and Opera Link. Once in a while there are […]
From Opera to opera
During the last few months I have gotten myself another permanent residence (especially after they got WiFi), a Chinese restaurant here in Prague. I spend more waking hours there than I do at home. Eating, drinking, socialising, and being on the Internet has occupied […]
The Folly of New Scientist
New Scientist recently published a special issue, The Folly of Growth, ostensibly an expose of flawed economic theory. As you can deduce from this blog and writings elsewhere, New Scientist is my favourite magazine, and I have read practically every issue the last twenty […]
PROWAS time again
For anyone in Prague with an interest in Internet standards, it pays to look up the PROWAS site for the next event. Which happens to be today. The topic is HTML5 is happening, the speaker is Martin Hassman, and the talk will be held […]
Decadance
Some nights ago, at a pub in Žižkov that used to be called U smrku (The Pine), I was chatting with a friend while not listening seriously to the songs being played. I asked her what would be the ten most decadent songs in […]
