By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: July 17, 2006
Monday, 17 July 2006
- Joe Clark: To Hell with WCAG 2 ★
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I missed this ALA piece by Joe Clark on the W3C’s updated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines back in May:
The proposed new WCAG 2.0 is the result of five long years’ work by a Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) committee that never quite got its act together. In an effort to be all things to all web content, the fundamentals of WCAG 2 are nearly impossible for a working standards-compliant developer to understand. WCAG 2 backtracks on basics of responsible web development that are well accepted by standardistas. WCAG 2 is not enough of an improvement and was not worth the wait.
- Zeldman on the W3C’s Relevancy ★
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Jeffrey Zeldman:
Some of the best minds working in web standards have been quietly or loudly abandoning the W3C. Bjoern Hoehrmann is the latest. His reasons for leaving make compelling reading (hat tip: Terje Bless). I believe in W3C standards, particularly the ones you and I use every day, but I worry about the direction in which the W3C is headed.
I’ve considered the W3C to be hopelessly out of touch with practical concerns ever since they shipped the first XHTML 2.0 working draft.
- ‘Mac OS X Internals’ Is Thicker Than an iPod ★
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I knew Amit Singh’s magnum opus, Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach, was a big book, but I didn’t know it was this big.
- ‘Next Unread Message’ Script for Apple Mail ★
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This script from Bruce Phillips, with additional help from “Qwerty Denzel”, seems like the best implementation yet of the “Go to Next Unread Message” command Tim Bray wishes for in Apple Mail. If what you want is a keyboard shortcut to go from one unread message to the next, pair this up with Red Sweater’s FastScripts and you should be set.
- Mousesposé 2.0 ★
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Bunch of new features in Boinx Software’s $10 mouse-highlighting utility, including the ability to visually highlight mouse clicks — great idea for presentations and screen-casts.
- Graffletopia ★
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New web site for user-contributed stencils for OmniGraffle. (Fits right in with the recent theme of scriptable/extensible applications.)
- Massive, Massive, Tubes ★
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Techno remix of Senator Ted Stevens’s “The Internet Is Not a Big Truck” speech.
- Oops! ★
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JPG Magazine issue 6 is full of mistakes.
- Open Sourcing Is Not Easy ★
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Bill Bumgarner:
Open sourcing a large body of source that has always been closed is really damned hard.
It takes a monumental amount of effort to do so and, once open, it takes a whole bunch of ongoing effort to keep it open in a productive fashion […].
At the lowest level, pretty much every line of code has to be reviewed to ensure that it isn’t offensive, doesn’t cross any number of lines (licensing, intellectual property, etc..), is formatted reasonably well, and every file must contain the appropriate header.