Does anyone know what license Acid3 is under? I suspect open but I can't find anything.
December 2009
121 tweets
Replying to @Authueil
Connaître de tête le protocole sur le rôle des parlements nationaux dans l'UE du traité de Lisbonne?
Replying to @Authueil
Je crains que tu n'aies plus grande confiance que moi, je me limitais à un texte de trois pages!
Replying to @Authueil
À cause de toi j'ai la musique de Highlander dans la tête maintenant. Et un concours de ressemblance à Christophe Lambert?
Replying to @kaihendry
Of course, since the press release BONDI has stopped passing 100% of the tests :)
P2P + Payment, brilliant idea. http://bit.ly/6x25BI Shame that the video industry cannot become as nimble as music is finally becoming.
Je suis le #4089 à signer la pétition de Mediapart contre le débat sur l'identité nationale: http://ur1.ca/h1vl . Et vous?
Replying to @null and @marcosc
The problem is that the movie distribution channels don't work like the music ones, which gets in the way of innovation.
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Nah, the problem is greed of video distributors preventing studios and artists from turning to innovative distribution methods.
"He's lost in the supermarket, except there's no supermarket". I won't tell you who that was about :)
Titania, Reine des Fées (http://bit.ly/6T6ytr) — un très beau spectacle, très chaudement recommandé!
Replying to @cwilso
And even more important, why isn't there a browser-bundling case against Apple for the iPhone, given you can't even add a new one!
Replying to @stubbornella
The iPhone's market share is not negligible, and Apple is very much playing anti-competitive games there.
Replying to @glazou
Je viens de finir de bosser, je m'y colle maintenant!
Replying to @glazou
C'est très chouette! J'espère continuer à te dérouter avec mon coding style :)
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A very good description of why I walked out of website production :) http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
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Replying to @null and @marcosc
I believe it means that ECMA has rubber-sta— err, ratified it.
OH: "you missed the memo? It's HammerTime Markup Language"
Mail.app has a bug in its undo handling that really makes me want to murder an Apple engineer.
Consensus (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/consensus.html
Replying to @bradneuberg
I proposed that when Canvas came out but folks scoffed that SVG was dead back then. Ah well.
Sharing an office with industrial designers, an instant switches from lissome 3D modelling to the chthonic chant of powertools.
Google Docs — putting everything that makes Word a pain to use right there on the Web
Vous vivez en Suisse? Vous pensez y aller bientôt? Construisez votre propre minaret! http://bit.ly/7GlIrH
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Very weird stuff going on with Chrome on my Mac. It looks like it's updating itself when not running, and showing me the steps. Scary. Bad.
Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) is now in CR! http://www.w3.org/TR/exi/ Champagne's on me!
Last Call Working Draft of W3C's Widget Access Request Policy spec published 8-Dec-2009 (http://bit.ly/6CFGO6); comments due 13-Jan-2010
Also seeing non-RT, non-followed people in my timeline. About boring sports stuff no less. The end is nigh.
Hadn't been to MySpace in ages. It so extensively bad, I never quite understood why anyone even bothered with it in the first place.
Feature request from browser vendors: duplicate current tab (in new tab).
"Etre français est-ce que c'est devoir parler français, chanter la Marseillaise, lire la lettre de Guy Môquet? Ca c'est être con!" --Cantona
Source de la citation de Cantona: Le Figaro http://bit.ly/7UZXLl
Replying to @hzr
Ah right, I'd forgotten. Unfortunately, this is not a month during which I'm using Opera. Maybe I'll switch again soon!
Replying to @abcoates
No, that's a feature request from me to them for browsers :)
Replying to @gjokicamusic and @gjolesuns
Brilliant, thanks!
Replying to @null and @sgalineau, @glazou
OSX sucks, it just sucks a little bit less than the alternatives.
Replying to @null and @sgalineau
I criticise OSX all the time. I think that the UI guidelines are a crock of sh*t, as are many of the apps, esp. Mail.app & Finder
Replying to @null and @paulrouget
It's even earlier than draft and under discussion. Comments always welcome! (by email is better than by tweet, too)
Replying to @glazou
Nah, some things don't make sense for non-geeks either. E.g. clicking on a menu separator by mistake vanishes the menu. Stupid!
Transition, Iain M. Banks. Interesting idea, good stuff, but a little too much deus ex machina.
Replying to @laurentwauquiez
Le 21 avril n'était pas une défaite de la gauche, mais une défaite de la France. En effet, ce faux débat nous y ramène.
Wow, FB's "simplified" privacy settings are fantastically incomprehensible. Choice between a suggested setting, and mysterious "old setting"
Whoever works on Facebook's usability team deserves to be shot. Or maybe to be sent to work for MySpace.
People often told me chairing was like parenthood. Now that I have a 5mo daughter, I know it's untrue. Children are easier, and smarter.
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Dear Mail.app, how can there be an unread mail in my Sent folder? No indeed there can't be. So stop.
Replying to @codedread
She can "talk" back alright :) And there are times when drooling is a lot of cogent than speaking it seems.
Replying to @null and @sgalineau
What's your MUA?
Plutôt bon sondage pour la gauche en IDF http://bit.ly/8YD8Lu, l'analyse de @vpecresse semble indûment optimiste. #regionales10
I refuse to donate to Wikipedia so long as they don't do the smart thing and run some text, non-intrusive ads. They don't try, I don't help.
Replying to @max_froumentin and @therealmaxf
Hmmm. "I need time to think", "How big is the stone?", <interruption by violin players>, "Should we sign a pre-nup?" :)
Replying to @hsivonen
France has a National Identity minister, so "Censorship Minister" doesn't sound all that bad in comparison...
Mice have started nesting on the airport and ADSL box. They're warm. Now they're also covered in mouse crap.
Now the proud owner of a flat in the Parc de Belleville!
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Actually the mice are only at work — in the new home we'll see what adventurous biology awaits!
Replying to @CecileDuflot
Faut annoncer tes passages à l'avance, pas le lendemain :)
Quelqu'un peut dire à Mamie Morano que "verlan", c'est du verlan?
Replying to @versac
Si Internet a inventé le copier-coller, ce n'est pas pour que l'on ne s'en serve pas!
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Au rythme actuel on va finir par avoir un meme #lumpmapiller
Replying to @kiphampton
Hey that's funny, I got the exact same joke in French only seconds before yours :)
The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge. A few good bits, but hmpf. Looking for recommendations of smart stuff to read, any topic.
The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2009: http://aneventapart.com/survey2009
Replying to @consttype and @octoberequus
Ah, I'd forgotten I wanted to read Thucydides, thanks! Looking at the other ones too.
Replying to @barbaraneves
Thanks — but how do I decide whether to read it or not?
Replying to @null and @sgalineau
Bah, when did Ridley Scott last make a decent movie?
Google AdWords is insisting on talking to me in Finnish...
Replying to @null and @vojtechtoman
Yeah that's all the Finnish I know too :)
Pour ceux que ça intéresse, @corinnelepage fait du bon compte-rendu temps réel de #cop15
The ictstandardisation.eu closes, pointing to a page on europa.eu that's gone. Sigh. EU institutions need far better information management.
XML Bad Practices — Introduction (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-intro.html The start of a series based on XML Prague 2009.
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XML Bad Practices 2 — Not Using A Namespace (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-no-namespace.html
XML Bad Practices 3 — Using Too Many Namespaces (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-too-many-namespaces.html
XML Bad Practices 4 — Non-HTTP Namespaces (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-non-http-namespaces.html
XML Bad Practices 5 — Processing Namespaces Differently (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-processing-namespaces-differently.html
XML Bad Practices 6 — Not Allowing Foreign Namespaces (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-not-allowing-foreign-namespaces.html
That's all for XML Bad Practices today, and all for namespaces in the series! Next: XML is for Humans. Later: versioning and error handling.
Replying to @ilinsky
I'm not sure what you're trying to get to?
Replying to @ilinsky
You misread it — the article is about people who chose to process namespaces *differently*.
Replying to @ilinsky
Thanks! Can you point me at bits of XMPP you particularly dislike?
Free quatrième opérateur français — l'espoir renait de voir un jour des télécoms innovants en France!
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Jacques Chirac mis en examen dans l'affaire des emplois présumés fictifs à la Mairie de Paris — c'est la journée des bonnes nouvelles!
Replying to @null and @ndw
Tainting? Dualvars? It would be clearer with a bit more code.
XML Bad Practices 7 — Unreadable Names (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-unreadable-names.html
XML Bad Practice 8 — Hard to Memorise Names (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-hard-to-memorise-names.html
XML Bad Practice 9 — Naming Without Context (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-naming-without-context.html
XML Bad Practice 10 — Human-Readable Text in Attributes (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-human-readable-attr-text.html
Replying to @ilinsky
Hehe, no — not creating a schema is the best thing you can do! Schemata are by and large useless compared to good processing rules.
XML Bad Practice 11 — XML for Cyborgs (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-xml-for-cyborgs.html
That's all in XML Bad Practices for today. Next Chapter: Language issues (versioning, error handling). After: Wishful thinking.
Replying to @hsivonen
The original paper has "Naïve Versioning" (i.e. version identifiers) in Wishful Thinking :) I'll fold it into one versioning post.
Replying to @ilinsky
I'd consider that "convenience" for some users rather than the opposite of bad practice.
Replying to @hsivonen
The French Minister for Culture understands the Web as much as a drunk mule understands Fichtean metaphysics.
Replying to @qikipedia
A blizzard of leopards?
Il y a une enquête qualité sur le site de la SNCF pour ceux qui veulent. C'est l'occasion de causer franchement.
Replying to @barbaraneves
I painfully went through the first 200 pages of Atlas Shrugged, not sure I could ever stomach more of that horrid writing!
Making mince meat and ginger bread. Yum.
Replying to @null and @marcosc
Fair enough, but I wonder: what can you say about Ayn Rand's writing apart from "Don't write like that"?
Interesting @visionmobile article on standards: http://bit.ly/7gZVMN Bizarre omission of W3C though.
XML Bad Practices 12 — Inconsistency (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-inconsistency.html
XML Bad Practice 13 — No Lacunae Values (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-no-lacunae-values.html
XML Bad Practice 14 — XML Error Handling (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-xml-error-handling.html
XML Bad Practice 15 — Language Error Handling (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-language-error-handling.html
XML Bad Practice 16 — No Versioning Strategy (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-no-versioning-strategy.html
XML Bad Practice 17 — Naïve Versioning (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-naive-versioning.html
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XML Bad Practice 18 — Overcomplexity (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-overcomplexity.html
XML Bad Practice 19 — Reusing the Useless (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-reusing-the-useless.html
XML Bad Practice 20 — A Schema Will Save You (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-schemata-will-save-you.html
XML Bad Practice 21 — Markup In CDATA Sections (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-markup-in-cdata-sections.html
XML Bad Practice 22 — Excessive Microparsing (blog) http://berjon.com/blog/2009/12/xmlbp-excessive-microparsing.html
The XML Bad Practices series is now finished! (Suggestions for more welcome though.) I've added a ToC of all at http://bit.ly/6KvKk4
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Replying to @null and @marcosc
Glad you like them over coffee :) Nothing keeps you from reading one per day, whether I release one or twenty! Either way, I'm done
Replying to @danbri
That's because this decade closes at the end of next year :)
Replying to @perigrin
You've been invading the Persian empire all the way to India?
Replying to @perigrin
Apparently it doesn't — shame, it looks great :)
Why does jQuery accept to append a link element but not a script? The dismal state of all JS lib is never ceases to disenchant.
There are days like that. jQuery won't work. MacBook Air overheat. TextMate crashes.
You'd think that creating an HTML document from inside HTML would be, you know, a bit simpler.
Off for the holidays — I may be tweeting between now and next year but don't expect much in terms of email replies.
2009: baby, new company, new WG, Vodafone, new blog, and flat owner. Objective 2010: new party, politics in general.