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We 2.0.

Web Today

Serendipity

This is based on the concept of network neutrality, where everyone has the same level of access to the web and that all data moving around the web is treated equally.

Before it was hip

What I object to about "Web 2.0" is that it was created to exclude people from the conversation, and by the way, I'm one of those people. They're planning the third Web 2.0 conference, and I haven't gotten an invite to present, and I'm not holding my breath.

The End of an Era

The end came last Friday. That's when Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, proposed "that we eliminate the requirement that semi-protected articles have to announce themselves as such to the general public." The "general public," you see, is now an entity separate and distinct from those who actually control the creation of Wikipedia. As Vaughan-Nichols says, "And the difference between Wikipedia and a conventionally edited publication is what exactly?".

First Step

One day's Essentials

Todd Dominey's Masterpiece

Create as many unique galleries as you need for multiple slide shows with Director's user-friendly drag and drop gallery setup system.

Woefully Inadequate

Instead of complex VM security models applied to general purpose languages, we'd be better off using domain specific languages that are by design limited to provably safe activities. I see a future more about simple and small special purpose languages that can be connected easily, and less about giant bloated do-it-all beasts like C# and Java.

Skinning rabbits

The parellization aspect is also important. By default, both Internet Explorer and Mozilla/Firefox will only download two resources from a single domain at once when using persistent connections (as suggested in the HTTP 1.1 spec, section 8.1.4). This means that while we’re waiting to download those JavaScript files, 2 at a time, we’re not loading image assets - the page our users see during the loading phase will be missing its images.

Require Positioning

What if we use JavaScript to determine when we’ve made a mistake and simply correct it? Instead of looping through all the contained elements, looking for the tallest and setting the containing elements’ height to match, the function would determine the tallest contained element and change its positioning to relative and its siblings to absolute..

Azogue V02

The Good Son

This is a personal post.

Dj Sideral, Aleix Vergès for whom we knew him, died last Friday due to a heart attack while djying unkown reasons while he slept.




Sideral, as a DJ, will be not with us anymore, nor Aleix. His music, but, will remain as solid as Stonehedge. Forever will.

Good luck, wherever you are now, friend.

True Life

We talk, about Microsoft's Expression Web-Site.

Said the web-site didn't work properly. Now it does. Have a visit while you may.

Azogue V01

days before, I noticed about Azogue, a personal web-site done with Word Press.

Enough. NO Way.

Azogue will be oriented as "The Life and Death of a pal...", a multimedia content, flash, quicktime et al product to be stumbled and get fun with it.

I think there is enough blogs in the web, to bring a new one into life. My egoistic ego is big, but not that big.

And a spaniard blog does not deserve your, nor mine, time to waste in it.

Private content will be the matter. Have a look

Right On Line

A submit button

Google was not a success because their homepage was sparse. They were a success because they brought a better technique to solving a real world problem, and didn’t ever go off-message. And partly because it didn’t take much explaining, and partly because they were the scrappy underdog, and partly because they were going against the design trend of the time, their homepage was utterly bereft of any hint of design.

No Best Practices

...since Arrays (the big "A" type) in JavaScript are meant to represent numerically indexed things, using them as an associative array violates the principle of least surprise. Array.length doesn't count properties added in the above manner. so the above example would return 0. The Array constructors also don't allow for string keys, further demonstrating that they are really meant for numeric indexes.

Flexible Framework

If the body tag has an

id

of “blog” and a

class

of “article”, all text should be black.

Stop, In the Name of Love

Causing web developers to buy more software and hardware simply to test seems an unlikely scenario; but somehow, test we must.

Four Trends

One:

Yesterday, first studio sessions, in the studio - a small record label hidden in BCN - getting friendly with proTools software, MiDI, and all that matters. We'll see what happens...

Two:

Re-planning Meet Ramirez, delayed two weeks , due to the need of info design, and a solid CSS structure.

Though it was a not a brilliant idea to write

*{margin:0; padding:0;}

intheh in the code...Ehmmm. Not bad for couple XHTML pages, but for a flashy mini-site?... Well, we better prefer the flow Lust by Bergman got. Keeping it simple. Like in the year 2003.

Three:

Segonquart does not degrade gracefully under Win XP and IE6. Awgh!
The four column disposition of the web is affected by some strange behavior of Explorer under XP's platform, . Better to have this noticed , before we upload the portfolio...

My fault was - yes, my fault - not to test it before under XP. Didn't had the chance, the worst excuse for a bad job done.

Four:

Until that date I'll be busy, so few posts will be done.

Good lick, honey.

From Today

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False Expression

After reading the post about real meaning of CSS for some companies , I have been surprised to notice: Microsoft has a Live Preview of their Expression software tailored to web designers who want to create standards-compliant, CSS-based sites.

Sadly, this is what you obtain as response if you visit Microsoft's Expression Web-Site today:

"We are encountering technical difficulties.

We are working on this problem right now
and hope to have it resolved soon.

Please check back again tomorrow morning PST."

So... might I wonder.. Is this the future of the ever changing web?.

Continue Reading...

Haven't Found It Yet

"From ten years of experience in championing standards and web development inside Microsoft, I think it’s actually critically important that the reasons for supporting standards in our products – particularly IE – be business ones. Business reasons stand the test of time. Pure altruistic “ethical” reasons are hard to defend to shareholders."
Via Chris Wilson.

• Microsoft and Internet Explorer vs. web standards
• What the software industry is missing

Text Files

Tricks and tips for you, honey.

Problems debugging your pages from Safari ?

First, do this: Open a Terminal window in you MAC OS X and type:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Safari's "Debug" menu allows you to turn on the logging of JavaScript errors. Easy, so easy...

Via Design-Nation.

Problems visualizing your pages correctly from IE 5.2 for Mac? This could be due to the improper use of WYSIWYG software.

Here, you'll find NotePad - a missed one - for MAC OS X.

There, you'll find Mac NotePad for MAC OS X and MAC 9.

Hope it has helped you.

ADDENDA: If you know about other excellent software for writting textfiles in MAC, please, do not doubt to hesitate me.

Yours Truly.

Leaves of Spring

Segonquart Studio, has been re-aligned.

More next weeks.

Desktop Speers

Mon Dec 12 19:35:58 PST 2005;

Gnome seems to be developed by interface nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doign (sic) something is not "it's too complicated to do", but "it would confuse users".

Via Linus Torvalds.

Uh,uh...some intelligentsia should read this.

Version 9

Just had a visit to Adobe Labs, and get a pick, installing in my computer Flash Player 9, and its standalone Debugger. Great.

Most interested, however was I in the Spry framework for Ajax, released under BSD license.

For the use with Adobe's Flex framework - not other framewoek,sorry - Spry is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users.

Recommendation: Why not to explore yourself next week-end their Flex_sdk_2_0_beta3, built on the foundation of ActionScript3.0.?

Using only the free Flex SDK, you can commercially deploy Flex applications that connect to XML and SOAP web services with no additional costs or server licensing required.

Bring juice into your glass. Serve it chilled.

CopyWrong

The Copyright Levy AKA Piracy Tax.

An article by Philip Dorrell.

If are not into copies, but you like to read, some chatty articles about basic concepts in algebra might be a peaceful lecture for you.

In the studio

To record something, next Monday.

See ya.

The Sisters of Mercy

First, we take the web-site, then we take the film.

A place to visit.

Scriveners

Brand new article on usability attitudes, formerly known as marketing plus brand, in A List Apart this week.

Mr. Derek Powazek remind us the importance of writing well ; in aclver cleverly and clearly in his quick-to-read article.

At least, I've found a good definition for this, your blog:

"This is not just marketing text (though it’s that, too). It’s interface."

For you, my beloved designer friend.

ADDENDA: Meanwhile find myself still fighting against Word Press, and its -still - darkest way to treat and correct those 404.

Aged Experience

Mr. Nielsen has published his Trends for Usability Professionals on May 8, 2006.

The difference between new and experienced staff ought to be even larger. In the usability field, skill is strongly dependent on experience. University courses rarely teach the details of how to correctly run a usability study. As a result, entry-level staffers typically need extensive mentoring before they can do a good job in practical projects..

Chips on my shoulder...mmmh I'm proudly getting older.

Azogue

Azogue is a part of myself. Currently a newborn blog, initially written in spanish and devoted to the music and life of a pal named Ramírez.

Less than a few pretention to write in this - your blog - about things and focus myself on real notation. From now on, this blog would be oriented more to languages, software and visual themes, deserving music, life and other passions involved in my daylife and nightmares for Azogue.

Don't be sad for the missing , honey, you can always can have a read to practice your spanish. Not my mother-in-tongue language, either.

Lazy Sunday

Busy

Currently developing Meet Ramirez, a brand new site featuring music videos et al. Converting QuickTime movies into Flash Video might be exciting sometimes. ;-)

Besides, teaching ActionScript and Coldfusion courses at Crea Formación, in BCN.

Weekends, enjoying a new position as musical director in a small company. Film Production.

Busy days, these days.

April Skies

April statistics, reflecting OS used by visitors of this - your - blog. Here they are:

On Notation Visitors

Operative Systems	OS	Visitors	Percent
Windows XP	WinXP	171	36.38%
MacOS	MAC OS X	135	28.72%
Unknown	Unknow	112	23.83%
Win2000	Win 2000	40	8.51%
Win98	Win 98	8	1.70%
Linux	Linux	3	0.64%
SunOs	Win NT	1	0.21%