whew, talking tacheles about simplified writing for the web, today on henso.com. hannes just set-up a nice little test application to illustrate different methods of creating a hyperlink without any html or wysinwyg.

more about markuplessness: rtx, an easy-to-use markup language for writers and documenters (shake your head), no-tags markup and certainly the wiki text formatting rules and examples.

further reading: writing a bibliography: mla style, online writing center consortium, "this html kills" by jim byrne, "the web is ruined and i ruined it" by david siegel (gulp!), write the web website, jakob nielsen on writing for the web.

the other way around: literate programming, an introduction by chris lee. donald knuth, the grandmaster.

not related to the web but nevertheless interesting in this context: z-write, a word processor for writers.

os news: an interview with carl sassenrath, rebol mastermind. chris lists the most remarkable quotes.

chris langreiter via mail: rebol xml libraries at gavin's temporary homepage

a good history in english about the "best german band of the world" (k. makotter), freiwillige selbstkontrolle (aka fsk). even more at fskweb.

what is kidloco.com?

page templates could solve a serious problem concerning web designers and coders: "once a page has been converted into a template, it is invalid html, making it difficult to work with outside of the application. [...] programmers should not 'hijack' the work of the designers and turn html into software".

a page template remains the dummy it was designed as – at least almost: certainly, some markup has to be included. in this case appropriate xml namespace attributes. however, this concept is smart because it enables designers to get a more realistic impression of a page. it can make layout problems visible that are hidden when using simple replacement tags: just compare e.g. <? include($fname); ?> with a paragraph of 500 words and think of the effect each of the two has on an html table's width...

focalpoint f/8 is "a design and production group for the development of photographic, interactive, digital and democratic journalism on the world wide web".

very nice: piggeldy wollte wissen, was ein weblog ist. normally in the children's tv show, piggeldy follows frederick back home. this seems to be a slightly x-rated version...

two links via ast.antville.org: the ultimate guide to shooting rubber bands and the mirror project: "if you think it's narcissistic, you're missing the point". well, i wouldn't bet on that...

what an amazing, large (and i mean really large) bird's eye view of nyc...