phil ringnalda

Big companies say the W3C is out of touch : small companies and independents say “we can’t afford a membership, so perhaps there’s nobody there but you.”

JavaScript toy keyboards for security? : from the Dept. of Really Bad Ideas.

“If you love your readers, set them free” : oh, so many nice contexts it works out of.

Get a real librarian. And then, for extra brilliance, tell him what you want to know, not where you think you should look. So very, very right.

“If you uninstall Abe Vigoda Status, the functionality it offers will no longer be available.” D’oh, but why do we have such an over-wordy dialog when we mean “Really uninstall Abe Vigoda Status?” And why do we have a dialog, rather than making it reversible up until you restart? And why is this a Short, […]

jwz kicking the Hula puppy. He’s right, of course: something like the WordPress of calendars would be great; something that can support 50,000 simultaneous users I’m not even going to bother looking at.

(MS IE Team) Listening to Customers. The distinction between IE users and MS customers is important to remember, if rather unpalatable. If ten thousand very loud and obnoxious web geeks who buy one computer with Windows preinstalled every few years (for testing only) want one thing (to the extent that “support all of CSS and […]

The real cost of comment spam. I know that’s not spammers, just the real msnbot following (possibly quite stale) links to Chuq’s TrackBack popups, but since he’s got comments shut off, I have no way of knowing if fifty people have already sent him email and IMs telling him that. What a pain.

Mozilla’s IDN Spoofing Strategy. Turn it off. Hope the registrars do their job.

Post headers playing Life in unobtrusive Javascript: a sure winner for best shiny-silly-flashing-toy on a blog in 2005.