Hixie brainbuster for what happens with various HTML markup incantations when they are represented through the DOM. Notable for the comment thread. Also the "It's amazing that the pile of shit that is the Web platform survives." comment. So true.

ahh, global scope pollution rears its ugly head in interesting ways.

I see these types of post ("write popular service X in language/framework/tool Y over the weekend") rather frequently and I often wonder whether I'm just being a cranky old man or if the various US CS education programs aren't preparing these folks.

live webcam of the famous Abbey Road street crossing.

what little public record there is of the original HTML WG charter discussions is in here.

"No, RDF asked XML for namespaces." Source of the infamous "RDF tax" line of thought I presume

ahh legacy compat.

Stephen Crocker on standards: IETF & RFCs

" It turns out that Mozilla Firefox treats window.sun as a magic LiveConnect property. (I tested with Mozilla Firefox 3.0.6 on Windows.) What's LiveConnect? It was introduced in Netscape 4 to allow plugins to be scripted. Accessing any magic LiveConnect property will start the Java plugin -- even if your code has nothing to do with Java."

Man, I'm loving this info dump on the creation of Python.

Web tech archaeology at its best: Dan Brickley does a history dump on the origins of RDF.

_Early_ draft of event-source

I'm with stupid

Ahh, memories. Andy and Linus duke it out over Minix/Linux back in 1992