WSUUG

The Web Standards and Usability User Group had its first meeting last night. It went well we've settled on the 1st Monday at 7pm to meet but we haven't quite found a place to meet yet. Our first thought as a local bar that is fairly quiet however it turns out that they aren't open on Mondays. So we will continue the search...

Rel-tag and issues with Blogger

I use Blogger. Sad but true. Well maybe not all that sad. But it has some issues. I was playing around with the 0.8b Operator tool bar by Mike Kaply and I had a problem. Apparently Mike has made the good decision not to allow broken implementations of the rel-tag Microformat to work in the operator tool bar. Fortunately Mike Creuzer has come up with a solution by using php and mod_rewrite.

Now this question is do I convert to WP (or another blog app) or do I stick it out with blogger and follow Mike Creuzer?

Safari 3 and Acid2, Part 2

Another friend of mine has also done some testing with Safari 3 on Windows. Other people have had mixed results. And some have had the same passing results.

Lets home that Apple gets on the ball and fixes all the bugs before we are required to support Safari on Windows.


Fun stuff.

Safari 3 and Acid2

We all know that Safari 3 for Windows has lots of bugs. There are also other questions about Apple's move to put Safari on the Windows platform. I'm not going to get into all that because at this point it doesn't matter much. Safari is here (in Beta but still here) and my managers will want at some point to support it.

Acid2. We all know it and we all hate browsers who can't render it correctly. We also know that Safari for Mac was one of the first major browsers to pass Acid2. So heres where it gets interesting, the version of Safari 3 (3.0.2 (522.13.1) I have installed my Windows XP box passes only when certain conditions are met. The version of Safari 3 (3.0.2 (522.13.1) my friend Zach has installed on his Windows XP box doesn't pass. His results include an orange bandanna. Odd.

Safari 3 at about 800px wide all nice and pretty:



Safari 3 at about 550px wide and Mr. Smiley is losing his top:



Safari 3 at about 350px wide and Mr. Smiley has lost his brains:

Microformats

If you haven't heard about microformats you've been missing out. Simply put Microformats are simple markup that you can use to identify specific kinds of data. I gave a short presentation at work about them last week. It went rather well, though I don't think they will get used much if at all.

I've been working on creating a JavaScript to allow IE users to download an hCard without having to have a toolbar or link to another site. Don't get me wrong I think X2V is great.

Anyways I ran into a few snags. First, since I am trying to use execCommand to save the vCard, Internet Explorer 6 won't encode the file correctly. I'm not sure if this a limitation of IE or the method I'm using it in.

Secondly, Internet Explorer 7 doesn't like execCommand being used with SaveAs. This is an issue cause I can't count on users installing the patch.

So in the end it looks execCommand isn't a feasible solution.

Happy 4th

Happy 4th of July! Whooo!

Val is moving away to Colorado soon so we've been do a lot of stuff together lately. Last night we went to a Norfolk Tides game.



In other news I am working on some javascript to embed into a page to download a vCard from an hCard (go check out Microformats to see what I'm talking about).

Blog Moving

So I moved my blog over to my site. I thought it would be better for SEO and just things in general to have it host it off my server. So ajaswa.blogspot.com will redirect over to here.

I'll be posting more tomorrow at work.

Check out my Technorati Profile because then I can claim my blog.