Collecting my thoughts about notation and user interfaces (Interconnected)
HTML sits on a boundary between the machine, the creator, and the reader.
Link tags: notation
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abc to SVG | CSS-Tricks
Aw, this is so nice! Chris points to the way that The Session generates sheet music from abc text:
The SVG conversion is made possible entirely in JavaScript by an open source library. That’s the progressive enhancement part. Store and ship the basic format, and let the browser enhance the experience, if it can (it can).
Here’s another way of thinking of it: I was contacted by a blind user of The Session who hadn’t come across abc notation before. Once they realised how it worked, they said it was like having alt text for sheet music! 🤯
John Resig - Annotated Version of the Original jQuery Release
This is a fascinating bit of web archeology: John has annotated the code from one of the earliest versions of jQuery.
Marginalia | Parallel Transport
A brilliant idea (and implementation) from Kartik. By combing webmentions and fragmentions, it’s possible to allow a kind of distributed marginalia: you post a comment on your site about a specific passage in a post on my site and a smattering of CSS and JavaScript can display it in the right context.
Walter Benjamin’s Aura: Open Bookmarks and the future eBook | booktwo.org
James Bridle propsed Open Bookmarks during a presentation at Tools of Change in Frankfurt today: "Open Bookmarks is not a thing, it’s a proposal, a flag in the ground. We need to agree on a way of sharing and storing annotations and bookmarks, reading attention data and everything around the book: that aura."