That's just the web, right? I mean, we've had the a href tag since literally the beginning of HTML / The Web. It's for linking documents. Documents are a representation of data.

Ha, so true — @veganstraightedge on #rdf #html (source)

Musing on why we only turn to natural language for defining the behaviour of out applications instead of the business logic itself.

Rough ideas: gist.github.com/barnabywalters/6188240

Find of the day: everything2.com

Tomorrow I will open onesecond.designly.com at the beginning of the day and look only at the very end. #bookmark #web #time

Finally, someone’s pushing for a common format for browser extensions: my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2013/07/30/introducing-nex via @brucel

Previously: waterpigs.co.uk/notes/713 waterpigs.co.uk/notes/734

Trying to think of a good reason to make a #js library called bach.js

Build a Crowdfunding Site in 300 Lines of code /cc Brennan Novak @herraBRE via @mozhacks #bookmark #web #node

Pondering the utility of a “draft blog post titles” listing on my homepage, partly as a teaser, partly as a reminder to myself

Laughing at the @twitter docs using “t.co” and “best practices” in the same sentence: dev.twitter.com/docs/tco-url-wrapper/best-practices

One wonderful project which could really use some design work is www.gutenberg.org, especially the distributed proofreaders system — I can’t imagine just how many people want to contribute but are put off by the incomprehensible #ui

I’m thinking the time might have come to write a wrapper around #php DOMDocument which actually makes it usable. Thoughts:

• automatic conversion of various encodings to HTML entities to scoot round encoding issues
• XPath queries still work but querySelector and querySelectorAll are implemented for both the document and individual elements via Symfony XPath → CSS converter and relative XPath queries
• A DOMNodeList which actually implements ArrayAccess instead of acting like a fake array
• Perhaps some javascript-inspired property names like innerText, innerHTML for consistency
• Maybe some jQuery-influenced shortcut goodness for doing things like removing/replacing elements

Problem with PRISM is shitty marketing. NSA should have promoted it as “free cloud backup”. Then geeks would be down with it.

LOL Tom Morris (source) #prism #web #privacy #marketing

Good morning #indiewebcamp! We set up a pre-conference hangout for all those not in the US. Care to join us?

The rise of the IndieWeb /by @pfefferle #bookmark #indieweb

RSS enthusiasts are HTML enthusiasts who haven’t met #microformats 2 yet. microformats.org/wiki/microformats2

Battle for the planet of the APIs by Jeremy Keith — nice piece of writing, it’s worth pointing out that Twitter still includes rel=me links back to homepages, but is increasingly wrapping them with t.co, making them fairly useless.

Whilst I admire RSS as a rallying cry for the openness of data on the web, I don’t like it much, mainly due to it’s DRY violation. microformats2 is the better solution.

Just pushed latest #taproot changes: using htmlpurifier.org to remove any nasties in reply contexts and comments, hopefully with upcoming php-mf2 changes that’ll allow limited HTML comments!

Also using brand new php-mf2-cleaner to parse said reply contexts and comments, find authors, etc. Check it out if you deal with #microformats 2 at all in PHP.

@benwerd loving your work on idno! Just had a look at the source, great that you’re using #microformats 2, I have some suggestions/corrections:

• .h-entry is better off where you’ve got .idno-entry so then the author .h-card can be scoped into the entry
• add .p-author to the .h-card for each .h-entry to explicitly declare authorship
• put .h-as-* on the same element as .h-entry .idno-entry
• put .u-url where you currently have .dt-published, move .dt-published to the time element

Thanks to Aaron Parecki you can see how a page is parsed here, or use my php-mf2 demo sandbox for experimentation by hand.