I finally got around to watch Der Untergang (or “The fall of the third realm” in the uninspired Czech translation, the English title “Downfall” is considerably better) a few days ago. Set in the fast imploding Nazi universe in the days before the ultimate […]

The otherwise honourable Acid2 test dredged up something I had hoped I wouldn’t see again. Most tests are CSS tests, parsing and layout, but they also threw in an old misfeature from HTML’s past. If you look at the test’s source code you will […]

New member beckfield started two threads on XSLT and Opera, one civil, one less so. That is fairly topical as the recent buzzword AJAX (no relation) includes XSLT and Opera does not. There is no discussion about XSLT on the server side, transformations is […]

[Test post] Top 10 Merriam-Webster word in 2004 by popular demand. øx

Forms handling is among the most important functions in a browser, the HTML 2.0 forms are seriously outdated and news.com.com considers the forms alternatives. As I see it there isn’t a conflict Web Forms 2.0 vs XForms. Web Forms is designed partially XForms compatible. […]

The strange charm of tragedy.

The css Zen Garden has done more than any other site to evangelize that having a simple, expressive markup will allow you to create a great variety of displays. Even so I am struck with how similar most of the designs are, just throwing […]

I’ve spent more time with other media than print lately, but this article on XML.com, Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL, is well worth the read. I have no opinion of XSL-FO as a print formatter, relative to for instance Postscript. What […]

Inspired by the recent probing of Titan, my and others’ opinions on space travel are currently discussed at the Forums.

It was too tempting to stay away from and nobody has been able to. An election where the liberal pro-Europe candidate was predicted the winner by the exit poll, but the incumbent is declared the winner in a process where the election itself got […]