How many times have you told a friend or colleague "Go to http://example.com/some/doc and search for XXXX" ? I do it a lot actually. Ideally web pages should identify significant sections of a web page with identifiers (id="foo") so that you can link to http://example.com/some/doc/#foo, but the problem is that not everyone follows this practice. In fact, there are a lot of big specification documents where you'd like to point someone to a specific paragraph to save someone time and encourage them to actually visit the link and read it. This becomes increasingly important as the mobile web accelerates and small screens with harder-to-use keyboards become more prevalent. I hope this Firefox extension will help. Read the rest of this entry ...

§402 · October 30, 2007 · Firefox, Opera, Software, Technology, Web, XML · 4 comments · Tags:


I'm working on my first Firefox extension - an attempt to get Firefox to support some version of XPointer that will work on HTML documents. Read the rest of this entry ...

§401 · October 29, 2007 · Firefox, Questions, Software, Technology, Web, XML · 2 comments ·


Lots of talk these days about allowing SVG inline with text/html content. I thought I'd try and put some thoughts down. Read the rest of this entry ...

§400 · October 19, 2007 · Questions, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 4 comments · Tags: ,


So far not one of the plot lines on NBC's Heroes has intrigued me. But Journeyman looks good so far. Read the rest of this entry ...

§399 · October 17, 2007 · Entertainment, Heroes, Lost, Television · 1 comment ·


As an update to yesterday's post I thought I'd elucidate what I've learned about XPointer. Read the rest of this entry ...

§398 · October 10, 2007 · Firefox, Software, Technology, Web, XML · 5 comments ·