phil ringnalda

Mozilla’s Link Prefetching – perfect for getting people whose internet use at work is monitored in trouble.

Ian Davis’ Open Content Syndication format – I’ve bookmarked this four or five times: it’s past time to actually look at it.

Eric Meyer on CSS: Tricking Browsers and Hiding Styles – it’s sad as can be, but if you’re going to do CSS that does more than look right in your browser, you know you need it.

LiSA LightWeight Syndication API at Internet Alchemy – “LiSA is an attempt to abstract away the details of the various syndication formats such as RSS that now proliferate on the web.” If I’m reading it right, it only really abstracts away the details of the core (title/link/description), but I’m picturing a non-standard implementation for my dream aggregator that does the same sort of thing for non-core stuff: both pubDate and dc:date raise something like metadataKnownValue(‘date’, ‘(whichever format suits me)’), while unknown and unused elements raise metadataUnknownValue() so I can store them away for statistical purposes.

“Now the hype and furor over RSS seems to have died down a little bit, I thought it was time to investigate it myself.” – wow, that’s pretty fine discernement, to notice it dying down!

revjim.net: feedParser – a PHP class to parse 0.9x/2.0 and 1.0 RSS; looks like I might like it better than the stuff I’m using now, GPLed, so I can abuse it at will, and after all “a Reverend can’t be wrong.”

This batch of links brought to you by Phoenix, because the only thing better than tabbed browsing is “bookmark this group of tabs” – I had all these plus another half-dozen open last night, when I realized that I didn’t have enough time to post them all. Couple or three clicks to bookmark my fourteen open tabs, then one click tonight to reopen them all. I’ll even forgive its utterly lame textareas if it keeps doing wonderful things like that for me.