2007 Sep 4, 6:57Netscape's documentation on the non-standard HTTP refresh header.
refresh http http-header netscape reference 2007 Aug 27, 11:26The article is a bit rambling but he makes an excellent point at least in separating the FireFox description of the feature from what it actually does.
firefox security w3c standard via:swannman article 2007 Aug 23, 6:17From the HTML standard, what to do if you find a URI with a non-US-ASCII character.
uri standard reference unicode utf8 encoding ascii iri 2007 Jun 7, 5:29The other day I had the best idea for my Wii remote. Clearly I should use it to control the rotation of Tetris pieces in my
N-dimensional
Tetris game Polytope Tetris. One of the
issues I described with Polytope Tetris is user input. Given a Wii remote the
user could rotate a piece through 3 dimensions in a manner that's much easier to adjust to than particular keys on the keyboard.
Anyway, I did a little
research into how this might work. I knew that the Wii remote used infrared for absolute positioning and
Bluetooth for everything else (LEDs, speaker, accels.) I bought a
Bluetooth adapter for my PC after realizing that none of my
computers had one already. I used
GlovePIE to ensure that my Wii remote could connect and successfully communicate with my computer.
GlovePIE is actually pretty cool -- it provides a simple script layer over the Wii remote to control things like your mouse.
Since Polytope Tetris is in Java I looked for and found a
Java library for operating with the Wii remote and a long
forum thread discussing its use. I then read up on
Bluetooth in Java. Apparently JSR 82 is the name of the standard that describes the API a Bluetooth stack should expose
in Java. That is, to get Bluetooth working in Java one needs an additional package for Java that actually implements the Bluetooth Java API. This package would depend on the system so I suppose I
can't fault Sun for not including it... Where to find such a package? I found a
comparison list of implementations and tried the ones
that support javax.bluetooth.
None of them worked for me because none can address USB devices it seems or they cost money and I couldn't get the trial version working. I also tried
bluesock (not listed on the previous list) which seemed promising and could produce an address for my Wii remote as a connected device but couldn't use
that address.
And I thought that after I found the Wii remote Java library it would be easy... Oh well...
java bluetooth wii technical remote jsr82 tetris polytopetetris wiimote 2007 Apr 17, 1:31The behaviors standard on the w3c.
behavior css w3c extension browser standard 2007 Apr 12, 12:40Early standard for date time formats for MIME messages.
standard date time format internet mime rfc reference 2007 Apr 12, 12:35XML schema describes ISO 8601 date time formats including duractions.
date time xml schema w3c syntax reference standard 2007 Apr 12, 12:27W3C standard on date and time formats.
date time format w3c standard reference 2007 Apr 12, 10:55Uniform Resource Names (URNs) are intended to serve as persistent, location-independent, source identifiers. This document sets forward the canonical syntax for URNs.
urn uri rfc reference internet namespace standard 2007 Apr 8, 3:05Shortcut Tag?
I just saw this on
another user's delicious links:
a link to ESV search that's
tagged with, among other things, "shortcut:esv". When viewed on del.icio.us there's a text box that lets you search using that link. I hadn't seen this before, but it seems pretty cool and I'm
surprised I hadn't seen it previously. A delicious post with such a tag ends up looking like the following:
I tried searching for information on this and I've found
other delicious users doing the same thing,
but nothing about the tag itself. If you know any information especially official information from del.icio.us itself please post links in reply to this post. So without further preface here's what
I've learned about the del.icio.us shortcut tag.
How-to
To get a search box in your del.icio.us links make a post that satisfies the following requirements:
- One of the tags must begin with the text 'shortcut:'. You can have more text following that in the tag if you like but it must at least start with 'shortcut:'.
- The 'url' you post must be a shortcut url rather than an actual URL. It must contain a '%s' with a lowercase 's'. When you enter text into the textbox on the del.icio.us page the text will
replace the '%s' after being percent-encoded. For example 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s' is the shortcut url for Google and if you type 'foo bar' into the textbox the URI you will
navigate to would be 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=foo%20bar'.
Complaints
This is neat but I do have a few complaints:
- The text from the textbox is percent-encoded before replacing the '%s'. Most sites use application/x-www-form-urlencoded
which encodes spaces as '+' rather than '%20'.
- The shortcut url format seems to be taken from Mozilla's Firefox Custom Keywords. Its a shame it wasn't based on something more
adaptable like the OpenSearch URL template syntax.
- A '%s' in the url means technically what you're submitting to del.icio.us isn't a URI as defined by the standard.
- Allowing text after 'shortcut:' means you can't look at all of a user's shortcut using this tag.
The next step is to create a tool to sync my
IE7 search providers with my shortcuts saved to delicious...
technical howto tagging tool tag delicious 2007 Apr 2, 1:31The IANAs list of headers for HTTP and mail.
email http iana internet reference registry rfc standard standards 2007 Mar 15, 10:36A URI scheme named 'geo' that names a geographical location.
geo uri schema reference internet rfc standard ietf 2007 Mar 8, 1:02Defintion of the escape mechanism used in XML.
xml escape encoding reference w3c standard character-entity-reference 2007 Mar 8, 1:01Definition of Quoted-Printable an encoding used in MIME.
mime encoding quoted-printable ietf rfc reference standard 2007 Mar 5, 2:13Scott uses Fiddler to automatically inject a report on HTML errors into webpages as you visit them.
fiddler tool hack html standard software blog article 2007 Feb 27, 12:35The media type defintion for HTML. Includes defintion of its fragment.
uri html fragment rfc ietf reference standard mime 2007 Feb 22, 10:44The standard for URI fragments for identifying portions of an XML document. I've been looking for this...
xml xpointer w3c specification standards xpath uri fragment 2007 Feb 22, 10:15Draft document that would update text/plain to allow for fragments identifying portions of the document.
mime uri fragment text-plain rfc ietf reference standard 2007 Feb 21, 6:30Standard describing the requirements of URNs.
urn standard reference rfc ietf uri
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