Moving

I'm finally taking the plunge and switching to Movable Type. I'm not going to bother importing this weblog, at least not initially. Too much work for too little benefit. My archives can stay here indefinitely.

My new home page and weblog. Feeds are available in RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0, and RSS 2.0 flavors. I'm not going to set up RSS redirects. I don't like Userland's solution because any aggregator that doesn't understand the format will barf on it. HTTP 301 redirects are better supported, but I don't feel like reconfiguring Apache to allow .htaccess files.

For the couple of people that subscribe to my category feeds, I'll get around to re-creating those eventually. Stay subscribed to the current feeds and wait for an update.

4:15:07 PM | Comments: | Topics: movable_type radio 

Rich editing in Mozilla

"Composite is a chrome overlay which enables a streamlined Mozilla Editor for html composition in textareas. To use the editor, hit ctrl-e in a textarea." Unfortunately, seamless inline editing (like WYSIWYG HTML mode in IE/Win) is apparently being held up by an internal flame war among the Mozilla developers. [Dive Into Mark]

The inline flame war is Bug 97284 and has been going on for over a year. To me it has always seemed obvious that they should take a two-pronged approach, creating a "proper" implementation that embeds Composer and providing a wrapper that is compatible with IE's implementation.

I've got one gripe with Composite, aside from it not being inline: it doesn't support pasting of HTML that originates from IE/Win. I think the problem is with Composer, not Composite itself. Composer seems to want the clipboard data as "text/html", while IE supplies "HTML Format". They ought to be compatible with each other, but there's some sort of encoding issue that I haven't been able to figure out...

4:27:38 PM | Comments: | Topics: mozilla 

Blind man sues airline over web site

scubacuda writes "According to Law.com, Robert Gumson, a blind man who uses a program that converts website content into speech, is suing Southwest Airlines (with the help of Miami Beach, FL-based Access Now) for its website being incompatible with his screen-reader program. The case has been filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act under the untested legal theory that ADA provisions on the accessibility of public accommodations to the disabled apply to Internet Web sites just as they do to brick-and-mortar facilities like movie theaters and department stores. [Slashdot]

Dive Into Accessability.

11:57:55 PM | Comments: | Topics: accessibility 

New Look

Back in March, when I first started using Radio, many in the Userland crowd were complaining that switching layouts from tables to CSS was too limiting and difficult. I set out to prove them wrong by converting the default Radio theme to CSS. It was nearly pixel-perfect on all CSS-capable browsers, at the expense of some "CSS purity."

These days everybody loves CSS, even Scoble is doing it!

I've got no attachment to the default Radio look. I started working on a fresh design months ago, and this slow Sunday afternoon seemed like an excellent time to finish it up and roll it out.

So now I've got a new look. It may be ugly, but it's my brand of ugly.

I've archived the old templates, just in case anyone wants them.

4:06:01 PM | Comments: | Topics: css radio 

Mozilla gripes: Can't right-click items in the Bookmarks menu. Middle-clicking in the Bookmarks menu and toolbar doesn't do anything (ought to open a new window/tab).

8:54:18 PM | Comments: