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Archive for April 2009

IE6 Update 

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While the execution is very great, I really think it’s too close to being a scam along the lines of those fake virus protection things. I can’t endorse it, because it just doesn’t feel right. Imitating browser ui seems bad karma, no matter how or why you do it.

(Via For a Beautiful Web.)

Litmus browser testing 

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This looks very interesting, although there by now are quite a lot of browser testing tools.

(Via Matt Haughey.)

Making `time` safe for historians 

Extensive research by Peter-Paul Koch on the complications with HTML5’s draft spec for the time element on the subject of historical dates.

Of course, HTML5 actually has a solution for this: don’t. They are very specific about time not being available for pre-Gregorian dates, but ppk’s proposal is interesting nonetheless, and I believe it is well worth considering adding the calendar attribute to time, and being somewhat flexible about the input. The problem with flexible input is of course that people misuse it.

T. S. Eliot And 'Animal Farm': Reasons For Rejection 

Can you imagine a Westerner today disregarding a writing because of its Trotskyite views not being convincing?

(Via Brent Simmons.)

This is Simply Jonathan, a blog written by Jonathan Holst. It's mostly about technical topics (and mainly the Web at that), but an occasional post on clothing, sports, and general personal life topics can be found.

Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.