Replying to @ppk
You've also got to love how using GWT to build a static website really makes jil.org hard to use...
October 2009
166 tweets
Trying to think positive thoughts for Irish voters today.
Replying to @arveb
Better than pooping high-pressure liquid poo just as you're changing the diaper!
Replying to @glazou
J'adore le body généré dans le mail quand tu cliques sur contact. Top en accessibilité aussi. Super <meta>s...
I wonder if we should start organising iPhone-burning events. #appleOfDiscord
Ireland: no results before tomorrow evening. How can it take so long to count Yes/No votes?
Five minutes into using xulrunner and already my world is one of silent failure, cryptic errors, and incoherent documentation. Oh joy.
Yay Ireland!
Massive disco ball above Luxembourg park, funky!
Replying to @glazou
Je t'embêterai avec ça à Paris Web!
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Damn, you're catching on aren't you? Or maybe it's just that you're working against us?
Replying to @beaufour
You've been doing Flash too long man, you can't get your web skills back.
Replying to @beaufour
I didn't have my camera, but some shots are at http://bit.ly/3afYuZ
Replying to @bradneuberg
Not so crazy, I've looked into that. The biggest issue is that the API is mostly crap, especially with anything below CS4.
Replying to @perigrin
What is it based on? How does it work? OSS?
Is there a source of information that will tell me if it rained in Paris two weeks ago, and how much?
Replying to @barbaraneves
Thanks, but it doesn't give me the rain, only n/a :)
Replying to @barbaraneves
Heh, thanks! I also thought that it must exist somewhere, but I can't seem to find it... Strange!
Replying to @barbaraneves
Got it! It was one click away, at http://bit.ly/11FylE
Wrote ingoing and outcoming — I probably need a rest of some sort...
Lisant @Maitre_Eolas je me dis qu'un pétoncle c'est une pétante qui en aurait deux — d'où l'on devine que c'est un bivalve. #jesuisfatigué
Replying to @beaufour
And none of those pics does it justice — it was bloody huge! Shame I hadn't taken my camera with me.
Replying to @perigrin
Ah, markdown. I think I'll stick to my HTML5+Perl+XSLT+rsync implementation ;-)
On m'informe qu'il y a souvent eu des fraudes à la carte bleue sur des CBs ayant servi à payer sur idtgv.com. Pas si étonnant...
Looking at ladistribution.net, wondering not for the first time if standardising a templating language would be useful.
Ruby gems hogging all CPU and taking ages to rebuild its index. Couldn't they just get it right by reusing CPAN?
MDR RT @glazou L'Elysée pris la main dans le sac de droits d'auteurs !!!! http://is.gd/41VCe
Hmmmm. Homemade cheeseburger FTW.
Replying to @Maitre_Eolas
Le jour où la presse fr aura les dents pour défendre des positions franches et s'attaquer aux nonistes, qqch aura fort changé!
Replying to @null and @ndw
Variable shackling?
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! The KINDLE now available WORLDWIDE. I'm EXCITED! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Kindle pre-ordered. I don't think I've ever pre-ordered anything before. Certainly not electronics.
Replying to @beaufour
And mine will work in 100 countries :)
Nicole's talk was cancelled, listening to chaals showing browser penetration stats very different by country. #parisweb
Correction: Nicole's talk isn't cancelled, just deferred.
Wondering if it's worth shelling out the $20 for the 280atlas beta programme.
OH: "That night really bonded us as friends for life; you, me, Libby, and that guy who's name we can't remember because he was an idiot."
Dear Vaclav Klaus, please stop being an arse, #kthxbai
http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-uri/ is now at Last Call. Fire at will!
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Replying to @kaihendry
Suspending isn't hard, it's just that you're using Linux.
Replying to @thommay
What we care about are those lovely invites you're gonna be tossing our way :)
Replying to @kaihendry
There are archives, they're just impossible to find and always 24h behind.
I heard Czechs had a history of using defenestration as a major political tool — what's wrong with doing the same with Vaclav Klaus?
Does anyone know how one acquires karaoke rights?
Phone currently out of order (just went black after weird behaviour), trying to resume communications.
http://voyages-sncf.mobi/ est pire que le .com, des âneries hallucinantes dans le source et un service amplement inutile. #SNCF #FAIL
Turns out the SNCF website had somehow sucked my iPhone's battery dry inside of ten minutes. Impressive for such a tech-challenged company.
Replying to @null and @ndw
Have you documented the process you use to measure test coverage? I'd be interested.
Sitting 2m away from Airport station, getting only two bars of signal — what's wrong?
Replying to @null and @karlpro
Je préfère prendre mes racines dans l'houmous et m'épanouir dans le canapé.
Why is it that when you have time no one writes, and the second you're busy all hell sets loose?
In the French Revolutionary Calendar, the World Standards Day (tomorrow) is also Turnip Day http://bit.ly/63QZT
Looking into kindergarten insurrection control techniques.
I strongly suspect that the new version of w3.org is about to go live... Correct guess?
Packing box after box of books. I can't wait for the Kindle to take over.
Wondering if the surfer girl on the new w3.org is someone's daughter or just stock photography.
Replying to @arveb
Tried sugar?
Replying to @null and @marcosc
It's not poor contrast Mister Teenage Testosterone Intoxication, it's blue-themed to match the page!
Replying to @w3c
I knew it! Not telling who?
Replying to @arveb
Sugar is supposed to dry the wound and somehow help it heal — I don't know the details though.
Replying to @roessler and @rigow
Comic Sans FTW!
Replying to @georgebina and @vojtechtoman
I gave Balsamiq a shot and wasn't impressed, I found it rather slow and weird but YMMV. Paper design FTW.
How to be misinformed and denigrating: Kurt Cagle on HTML5 http://bit.ly/6PEHO
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Cagle's. It's wrong, and it's insulting. What flaws there are in the HTML5 process aren't in his article.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Fair enough, but that's not enough to kill the tech, and no reason to cast aspersions about race, etc.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Based on the feedback from people at conferences, the only confusion seems to be about the scope of what "HTML5" covers.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
I find my viewpoint is generally tolerated. And snark for snark doesn't make anyone smarter.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
I'm not saying that there are zero issues — simply that I don't think that the way of solving them lies in pointing fingers.
Whoa. Is it just me or is #gwave really not ready for prime time? Unresponsive, cryptic, and failed interactions. Plus lots of broken Flash.
Replying to @glazou
T'es sûr que c'est pas Glazoueau?
Am I the only one who finds the reformatted W3C Recommendations broken in too many ways to be released? e.g. http://bit.ly/10keCu
And also that while it's nice to test live, W3C shouldn't be testing on Recommendations, but rather on less final/important documents.
Replying to @rigow
I logged more details on chairs@ and site-comments@ :)
Replying to @glazou
Funny, I don't actually care about the graphic details — just that the Recs look completely broken now :(
Replying to @kurt_cagle
So if you're not "involved in the process" it's okay to cast aspersions based on gender, nationality, race, and income?
Replying to @kurt_cagle
It was never possible to roundtrip between all DOMs and XML — nothing changes, people just notice now.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
XML was never composable, and yet we lived. I doubt being a bit less composable will make a huge difference.
We should also make MPEG as obsolete in usage as it is in mentality.
Replying to @hsivonen
IIRC using CVS. It normally works (everything uses it).
Giving a Lightning Talk about ReSpec.js at TPAC. http://www.w3.org/2009/11/TPAC/PlenaryAgenda
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Cool, you should make me a feature list of the test-related stuff you want in it!
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
In the real world that's already the case. You have to remove DOCTYPE, copy internal subset entities, etc. XHTML doesn't help
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Oh I won't have time to implement before TPAC, but I can put that on the "Upcoming Features" slide :)
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Wrong. You need to move over the internal subset, which tools like Illustrator will almost always create.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
And speaking of things that always confuse users, DOCTYPE is a very good candidate.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Not sure what you mean. Typical Illustrator example, how do you cut'n'paste without changes? http://bit.ly/2Wja0
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Illustrator outputs SVG, you can read it (see the link). And it's used *a lot* by designers, *far* more than Inkscape.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
WF XML, yes; copy and paste, not so trivial with an internal subset. It's a well-known XML issue.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Massive amounts of web content are made with Illustrator in the production pipeline. Inkscape is tiny in comparison.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Precisely. Illustrator is typical. HTML is typical. Inkscape and RDF aren't (no matter whether I'd like them to be or not)
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
You have numbers? All SVG projects I've worked on over the past 10y were with Illustrator or hand-made SVG. No Inkscape.
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
Yeah, interactive maps, user interfaces, that sort of thing. Real web content and web apps :)
Replying to @codedread
Having in the past done stats on OpenClipart, I'm not very confident that it's representative :(
Pour les deux mois qui viennent, résident du Vè, Rive Gauche donc. Profitez-en, c'est pas souvent.
Mail.app decided it wasn't going to filter messages today. I so wish I could find a good mail client.
Kindle: 04:43:28 AM | Campbellsville KY US | Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit. Woot!
Saw this through @libbymiller: http://tinyurl.com/yzj5gxd . As a former Joost widgetarian, I'm between giggling and speechless.
Replying to @jwatt
Yeah, you'd think someone would've made a nice Mail UA by now. Anyone tried Postbox?
Replying to @codedread
No, I mean OCAL wasn't representative when I tried to use it as a stats source for XBC. But could be worth a shot anyway!
Replying to @null and @ndw, @karlpro
I sort of get that the Web is big, but I still think that when a decision has to be made, it should break the smaller part.
Replying to @null and @karlpro
Of course, and those minorities can. Updating Inkscape to output SVG-in-HTML5 ought to be trivial — and easier than fixing browsers
Replying to @ScislaC
No, they were content *for* the web — it's got to be created at some point :)
Replying to @joncruz
True, but last I looked Inkscape wasn't much better. SVG generally needs clean up when produced by a tool.
Replying to @codedread
Antoine Quint has code for that, thought it's limited. I can ask if you want.
Replying to @null and @ndw
In principle, of course! In this case, I'm reasonably certain that Illustrator has greater reach than Inkscape — despite how cool it is
#postbox imports accounts but not passwords; doesn't seem to notice disabled accounts.
#postbox now open, no email showing, I have no clue what to look for. Did the import fail?
#postbox Cluttered, sluggish, unclear — some options looked promising but not ready for prime time; giving up on it already.
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Well, it's not as if we have much of a choice. There isn't a Mail client that doesn't completely blow...
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Nothing wrong with liking bad UI so long as you don't force others to use it too :)
Replying to @null and @karlpro
It's not just customisation, Mail.app is horridly slow and has all sorts of random bugs. Plus Spotlight isn't all that good UI-wise
Replying to @gormer
Thunderbird lost my data, undeleted thousands of my deleted mail, and has random UI changes — I can't trust it.
Replying to @gormer
M2 failed to import previous mail, then segfaulted. Then started in some form of zombie state I could never recover from.
Replying to @gormer
Gnus is for Emacs — no thanks.
Replying to @null and @karlpro
Déjà lu! C'est un pas en avant, mais ça reste dans Mail.app...
Replying to @gormer
I think I'll just wait for the web platform to improve a tiny little bit more, then write my own client :)
I would give a lot for a cure to the so called "common cold"... Catching up a couple of lost days...
OMG the Microsoft website is so #fail I'm speechless! That's something to come back to!
Replying to @Hixie
Just display the error and give up? Unless you can prompt to auth through proxy à la 401, not much else I can think of.
Replying to @Hixie
Does it matter? If you're getting it from the server, it thinks it's a proxy to something else (which indeed it might be).
Replying to @Hixie
Yes, but if the server quacks like a proxy, why not treat it as such? Or are you saying it means that the user should enable a proxy?
Replying to @Hixie
I reckon just prompting for the proxy credentials — it's what it's asking for. It might actually be proxying.
ROFL RT @Maitre_Eolas Charters: Éric Besson annonce qu'un réfugié a été reconduit de force de la Défense à Neuilly.
Quand est-ce qu'on aura toutes les vidéos pour #parisweb ?
Replying to @thommay
it's USB that doesn't charge on the iPhone outlet to USB adapter though; and I don't want a zillion things hanging off my laptop...
Replying to @thommay
Yeah, I put it to charge on that the first night but nothing happened
Aside from that, I love my #kindle. 300k books isn't that much, but there's stuff to find, and the device is great.
Replying to @null and @smaryka
I haven't yet experimented with that, will try to find out if other options would work.
Last details for TPAC trip finalised, see you there you crazy W3C crowd!
Am I the only one seeing lots of error on the MDC wiki, e.g. http://bit.ly/49Bsy2 ?
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Landing at SJC at 1655 on 20091101, you?
Replying to @m_krasnopolski and @LSR_PL
They know which country it's shipped to, the correct plug for that country would do (just like others do).
Is there any good XUL resource that can be accessed offline? Preferably not overly out of date or self-contradicting.
Replying to @NachoMan
That downloads thousands of pages that I really don't need...
Everyone seems to be missing Geocities — is anyone else still missing mygale.org?
Le Tellier: "On est fier d'être américain et pas d'être français", se désole Eric Besson. Pourtant, moi aussi, je serais fier... (1/2)
...d'être citoyen d'un pays qui n'a pas de ministre de l'identité nationale. (2/2)
Agolagate: 1 an ferme pour Pasqua — w00t!
wordr is brilliant - http://wordr.org/everyone , thanks @libbymiller for bringing it up!
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I wonder if talking of a "strawperson" is taking PC too far :)
Replying to @DeputeTardy
Juste par curiosité, les discussions CSA/TDF sont sur la TNT télé uniquement ou couvrent-elles aussi la TV mobile DVB-H?
Replying to @JeniT
Is there a write-up of your legislation work? I'd be interested in reading about it.
Replying to @JeniT
Well if there ever is, please make sure it's well announced :)
Replying to @ppk
I know the feeling... Question is — are the lazy and ill halfs the same?
Walking down the streets with Ashley in the baby carrier feels like one of those deodorant commercials.
Replying to @glazou
Moz au TPAC ça sera moi. Il faut encore que je trouve la tignasse.
It seems that Facebook gets less useful every single time that they change something.
♺@nickbilton : If Net Neutrality disappears, this is what the web will look like: http://j.mp/2UYL2H
Replying to @max_froumentin and @therealmaxf
Should we all be disabling SSH access?
Y'a-t-il une banque internet qui soit bien, que je pourrais tester pour mon compte pro?
Enfin reconnu à ma juste valeur: http://bit.ly/OIpsU
Replying to @Maitre_Eolas
@Maitre_Eolas, @nk_m Peut-être le ministre tchèque de l'économie numérique l'a-t-il rassuré à ce sujet?
Replying to @null and @wolframkriesing
I'm told gardeners have to deal with even more bugs than developers...
Replying to @nk_m
Une version Kindle de "Tu viens ?" est-elle prévue, ou vaut-il mieux tenter de convertir le ePub?
Replying to @null and @shelleypowers
I'd strip for climate awareness, we'll have to if things keep warming up anyway :)
Is there an easy way to get all the XPCOM IDLs for Mozilla (but only those)? #lazyweb
Replying to @barbaraneves
Oooh, I hope everyone I invited gives me a bottle of port ;-)
Hey, since I distributed quite a few Wave invites, does anyone have a Spotify invite? I'd like to finally give it a shot.
Endorse the Open Declaration on European Public Services! http://www.endorsetheopendeclaration.eu/
Replying to @null and @jerekapyaho
Yes please!