2020 Hindsight

DNS Stuff

A very cool tool, found thanks to Anil's Daily Links. Tons of Domain Name tests, all through a web interface. This site is a keeper.

Web Standards, as defined in The Devil's Dictionary

A good find after reading up on this and that and the other web-wise. Oh, and discovered through a comment in response to a great rant on Andrei Herasimchuk's weblog, Design by Fire.

Good resource: Quirksmode

Am doing a bunch of HTML/CSS work. Discovering discrepancies (tho I'm not surprised). Paul Kochk's Quirksmode provides some enlightenment.

CSS for web forms

Scriptygoddess links to some good CSS notes regarding forms; this is one. This'll come in handy for what I'll be working on today.

March on Washington for Web Standards

Meet at 10am on the Mall and March!! (I'm sorry I won't be there)

Clean up the web!

"It's time to take back America, and take back the Web. I'm marching today for both the children and CSS child selectors." --Matt Haughey

What was the first browser-based control panel software?

The type of software is ubiquitous nowadays: the "terminal" to get into some piece of hardware or software is the web browser, with a control panel.

I know of the Cobalt Qube, which is what inspired Dave Winer to change Frontier and morph it into what became Manila. He said that Cobalt was his inspiration.

The entire genre of content management system/weblogging software works through the web browser as a control panel.

Nowadays there are web servers hard wired into all sorts of equipment: Routers, an air station, printers--too many to say.

What I'm trying to figure out is -- who was the first? Was it Cobalt? Someone else? Do you know?

UPDATE: Bless those medical geek-men! Al helps get the question out, and Jason Levine at Q helps answer -- taking it back to Oracle WebServer 1.0, vintage 1995.

Rebecca Blood: 13 ways to save Orkut

Good points, all.

(I haven't signed in to Orkut for days and days since the early days of checking it out. But then again, I've been curtailing lotsa web-based random activity.)

NASA sets the web high-watermark

Bigger than IRS web site during tax season. Bigger than Hurrican Isabel.

due to extremely high public interest in NASA's Mars exploration program, the space agency's Web portal has received more than 6.5 billion hits since early January.

According to NASA officials, this makes the Mars program the most popular federal event in Internet history.

Now.. how many of that is unique visitors and how many repeat visitors?

BTW, Spirit recently passed its mission half-way point. It's Sol 47 out of a 90-sol mission.

Things Google can do with numbers

In addition to being able to provide meaningful search results for UPS, FedEx, patent, airplane and FCC equipment, Google also does results for phone area codes (good for the ever-splitting CA areas), UPC codes, flight numbers, VIN (Vehicle ID numbers), and USPS tracking number status. [via boingBoing]

And, of course, there's the Google calculator.

Colored boxes - one method of building full CSS layouts

File under notes-to-self re: site building. [via dangerousmeta]

Which reminds me, I saw something interesting yesterday worth exploring further: A Moveable Type Intranet.