http://smackman.com/feed/atom/smackmanPutting the smack down, one smack at a time2008-02-08T03:10:31Zstevehttp://smackman.comAn Old Ideahttp://smackman.com/2006/06/01/an-old-idea/2006-06-01T00:02:28ZNewsI’ve been giving some thought to parsing microformats lately. A few threads seem to be converging…
The first is that it’s hard to parse microformats. You can hand-write a parser in a little bit of time that’s 80% right. But getting all of the hcard rules, e.g., encoded is tricky. It’s reasonable [...]stevehttp://smackman.comFried pizza, really?http://smackman.com/2006/05/20/fried-pizza-really/2006-05-20T19:58:25ZNewsI’m off to Edinburgh, Scotland today for WWW2006. I have a paper in the tagging workshop. Here’s my presentation (done with S5). I used microtemplates to generate a lot of the tag visualizations.
stevehttp://smackman.comPromoting microtemplateshttp://smackman.com/2006/05/13/promoting-microtemplates/2006-05-13T19:21:02ZNewsIt was cool to see that Elias blogged about microtemplates and got straight to the point: it’s easy.
My goal now is to try take to make this point to a few of the right people, have them get it and say something about it, and then others will pay attention. It’s, honestly, kind of [...]stevehttp://smackman.comhCalendar and timezoneshttp://smackman.com/?p=62006-05-10T15:03:23ZNewsI was thinking that hCalendar might be helpful for helping with timezones. The basic idea, just like, ecmanaut says, is to send the zone information in GMT and let the browser do the conversion. So I’m thinking if we use the microformat for dates, hcalendar, then the date gets formatted as,
<abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-05-01T12:15:03.0Z">5:15am</abbr>
where [...]stevehttp://smackman.comapplication/atom+jsonhttp://smackman.com/?p=42006-05-08T21:33:44ZNewsJSON looks to be an extremely useful data format for Ajax (client-side web) applications because it is javascript, and so it can be parsed efficiently and loaded from any URL (not just the host that served the web page), opening up the door to a new class of applications that do client-side data integration in [...]stevehttp://smackman.comMicrotemplateshttp://smackman.com/?p=32006-05-01T07:22:07ZNewsMicrotemplates are a way of creating templates in HTML that can be evaluated in the browser. More info here: microtemplates.org.