29 June 2008
Internet Explorer has been holding the web back for more than a decade and a half, and here’s yet more evidence to prove it.
When serving HTML as XML (forming XHTML), it opens up a whole range of new embedding possibilities, thanks to XML namespaces. I have created a mockup of embedding an SVG inside an XHTML document, and manipulating the text in the SVG with JavaScript.
Why not check it out? (Works on Firefox 3.0. Would probably look kooky in Firefox 2.0, and Internet Explorer users are totally screwed.)
Don’t bother validating it. It won’t validate, but that’s because it’s even too advanced for W3C’s validator. Take that. 
This would have been possible a long time ago if not for Microsoft crippling Internet Explorer so much so that it is still unable to display properly served XHTML documents. (XHTML was published in 1999, so that means we have been waiting 9 years to be able to do this for the masses, and are still waiting. Anyone know if IE8 will support this?)
Tagged: html, javascript, svg, web | 4 Comments »
22 June 2008
Linux users rejoice! Google no longer blacklists Linux for doing its cool zooming feature when you scroll your mousewheel in Google Maps. About time.
Tagged: Google, Linux | No Comments »
18 June 2008
Just been reading about Zeroconf on Wikipedia, and apparently 224.0.0.251 is a special IP address reserved for multicast DNS. Out of curiosity, I pinged this address, and our Zeroconf-enabled printer (HP PSC 2510) responded to the ping.
jeremy@glenstorm:~$ ping -c 1 224.0.0.251
PING 224.0.0.251 (224.0.0.251) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.33: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=106 ms
--- 224.0.0.251 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 106.604/106.604/106.604/0.000 ms
Was that meant to work? None of our Avahi-running computers responded to the ping, so does that suggest the printer has a broken Zeroconf implementation?
Tagged: networking | No Comments »
16 June 2008
Dear LazyWeb,
Does anybody have any idea how I would redirect the output of an application (say Amarok) to ALSA’s or PulseAudio’s microphone input, so I can record Amarok or something in a program that only listens to the microphone? At first, I thought PulseAudio would make my life easier, but it’s a bit confusing.
Update: Figured this out. In most recording apps, you can select the input device as “Mix” instead of “Microphone”. That way, the app will record what’s playing through your speakers as well as what you’re saying in your microphone.
Tagged: audio, hoosgot, Linux | 1 Comment »
14 June 2008
Just went to download a program from SourceForge, and was pleasantly surprised to see the Internode logo on the download page.
From looking at the mirror list, it appears OptusNet is no longer mirroring SourceForge content — Internode seems to have taken over.
This is almost certainly a change for the better — most of the time, when trying to download something using the OptusNet mirror, the download would either not start, cut out, or would be slow. I never got that problem when using any other mirrors, and my download from Internode just then was fast and snappy.
Tagged: internet, internode | 2 Comments »
