27th
March
2000
“MEME: (pron. ‘meem’) A contagious information pattern that replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with ‘gene.’) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic.”
posted in Communications | Permalink |
27th
March
2000
“This small cluster of articles takes you through the creation of a simple animation and is aimed at people very new to Flash. When you’ve finished reading, you’ll have a basic understanding of how the program works and how to use its principal functions. You’ll also be able to test your movie and mount it on a Web page.”
posted in Flash | Permalink |
27th
March
2000
MSIE 5 makes me want Opera for the Mac. “Invitation for testing groups has been closed since December. We are expecting an alpha version of Opera for Mac by the end of January, and hopefully a beta version by the end of February. Four to six weeks after the beta, you can expect a stable release. We will be releasing a 68K version as well as a PPC version.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
27th
March
2000
“Web site developers face the dilemma of balancing the most appealing online content with the most widely used technology.”
posted in Web development | Permalink |
27th
March
2000
“One common use of XML is to provide data for template-based web pages created with XSLT. However, XML can be used to model the actual structure of a web site too. Portable Site Information is a project to develop an XML abstraction for template-based web sites, to allow their migration between site development frameworks such as NetObjects or Cocoon.”
posted in XML/XSLT | Permalink |
27th
March
2000
An interview with well-known XML wizard, Simon St. Laurent. “How is XML related to usability? Or more generally, how is XML related to web site design? Usability is a pretty broad topic, and I’d rather not get into a debate with Jakob Nielsen’s fans, but I think XML may eventually blow the doors off usability as it’s currently discussed. Basically, XML makes it possible for Web designers to send information in a form completely separate from the presentation of that information. This means that Web site designers can present the same information in several different forms, customized to the needs of particular readers.”
posted in XML/XSLT | Permalink |
