Sparkicons and the humble hyperlink by Mark Boulton
I really like Mark’s idea of standardised “sparkicons” …for a while there, reading this, I was worried he was going to propose something like Snap Preview. shudder
Tags: perl
Scripting News: Why apps are not the future
Spot. On.
The great thing about the web is linking. I don’t care how ugly it looks and how pretty your app is, if I can’t link in and out of your world, it’s not even close to a replacement for the web. It would be as silly as saying that you don’t need oceans because you have a bathtub.
Karl Dubost - 3 rules of thumb for Web development
- Can I bookmark this information? (stable URIs)
- Can I go from here to there with a click? (hyperlinks)
- Can I save the content locally? (open accessible formats)
Maria Fischer · Portfolio · Traumgedanken
What a brilliant idea! This book on dreams uses physical threads as hyperlinks. The result is a gorgeous object.
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers - NYTimes.com
The New York Times covers Everyblock, Outside.in, and their ilk.
Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web
An excellent overarching article looking at the current state of microformats adoption.
perl.com: Using Ajax from Perl
My fellow Brightonian geek, Dom, has written an article about using Perl and Ajax.