Halogen Labs Weblog

I saw over on Martin Dulisch’s weblog that sunBow 0.6 is available for download, as well as a new licence.xml that expires on December 31, 2002.

It seems that the AxKit developers think Cocoon is too complex. How does the saying go? Oh yeah: “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say it at all.“

From cocoon-dev:

Currently, Cocoon is not officially considered a ‘project’ under the ASF
bylaws. Cocoon is, in fact, part of the Apache XML Project just like
Xalan Xerces Fop Batik and the others.

What does this mean for Cocoon? Mainly, it will get more attention since it will appear alongside the other “big” ASF projects — HTTPD, Jakarta, PHP, etc. Additionally, the site will change to cocoon.apache.org, along with some other minor changes, such as the project name being changed in CVS to cocoon instead of xml-cocoon2.

Ugo points out that there’s a different “XSP” that has absolutely nothing to do with Cocoon:

XSP technology is a revolutionary innovation from Trilog built to improve both the development and execution of powerful Web applications. As the core technology in FlowBuilder XML Edition, XML Server Pages (XSPs) provide the framework to create dynamic applications that leverage reusable components in a manner that is faster, more intuitive, more flexible, and more easily maintained than JSPs or ASPs.

I finally got off my lazy butt and read up on flow in Cocoon, and the mindbomb is about to go off….

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Whoa.

I saw an odd referrer URL in my log, so I checked it out. It seems that the company specializes in “referrer marketing,” which is nothing more than spam. This troubles me, however:

Q: How many weblogs can you reach?


A: We are currently reaching 55,000 weblogs, more being added every hour.

Gonzo Marketing? Smells more like a new kind of spam to me.

Anyone got a good idea how to combat this? Maybe something like checking the referer and making sure the referring URL actually contains a link to the page requested? Is trackback impervious to this attack?

Vignette Takes Wraps Off New Content-Management System (via Google News)

Oh geez, it’s called “V7.” How extreme. The only extreme thing about it is the price tag. I also love the useless URLS it produces.

Coming from O’ReillyNet, we have a trio of various articles: “XML to PDF? Oh, FOP it“, “Playing Audio and Video Files in FreeBSD“, and “What is XQuery?“.

Reading this article on CNN about two guys who are going to give 1,000,000 discs back to AOL is good and all, but partway into the article, they write this:

Their Web site has brought in about 70,000 CD’s from as far away as Brazil and Africa. In the process, the two are having a lot of fun.

Their homepage shows pictures reportedly sent in by frustrated disc recipients. There’s a snapshot of a room wallpapered with the CDs and another of a dog with a disc clenched in its jaw.

Alright, so what’s the damn web site address? There isn’t a single hyperlink in the entire story. It’s not like they’re printing the news anywhere. The big companies only pretend to understand the web. Most don’t get it at all.

There it is. NoMoreAolCDs.com. Not even linked inside the story. It’s in a sidebar. Terrible, terrible reporting.

Christian Hujer: “Content-Editable as an attribute is not a good idea.” (via The Fishbowl)

This post over on www-html (which dates back to January 2002) echos the main concern I had over contentEditable: “Forms are not the task of HTML anymore.”