Anne van Kesteren

Update

Some day I will read posts on my weblog again and wonder what I was doing at that time besides putting random content on the web:

2006-05-08 (Monday)
Arriving, sleeping and catching up with e-mail which I missed by going nine hours back in time during an eleven hour flight (excluding checking in et cetera).
2006-05-09 (Tuesday)
Another XML class. It surprised me the teacher was surprised that attributes don’t inherit the default namespace. I liked the theoretical discussions with him during the break though about creating some kind perfect language that actually gets things right and without five ways to do something. Also discussing the problem field of “overlapping markup.” That’s probably not an actual term. What it means is that if you have two paragraphs marked up using some element and the last sentence of the first paragraph and the first sentence of the second paragraph share some relation you need some way of marking up that overlap. Of course you could make that example much more complex and in general you want some kind of misnesting that is only possible in the IE DOM, but it might be solvable in another way as well. (Basically you get two views of the same data shared in some way.)
Worked on an assignment after class and did some work.
2006-05-10 (Wednesday)
Finished the assignment.
2006-05-11 (Thursday, today more or less)
Joined the last day of the CSS WG meeting (again) and had lots of funny and interesting discussions. I believe I also signed up for some editing work. Silly me. For the record, I’m not officially part of the CSS WG (solely there for pictures and free stickers).
2006-05-12 (Friday, today more or less)
Work, having fun and perhaps starting with some assignment.
2006-05-16 (Tuesday)
Going to university for my weekly XML class and perhaps going to XTech afterwards for some AJAX tutorials. (Except that it’s not really XTech or something like that.)
2006-05-17 (Wednesday)
2006-05-18 (Thursday)
2006-05-19 (Friday)
XTech and perhaps some university party. XTech is probably most about meeting people for me. Not sure I care about the talks that much (I probably do), although the ones from my superiors are obviously very good and well worth going to! Going to XTech together with Jorgen most likely.
2006-05-31 (Wednesday)
Making some test at university and catch a flight to attend reboot8. Don’t ask, Mark dragged me into this. Fair enough though, it was fun last year.

Lets not cover the rest of May or anything after that.

Comments

  1. You forgetting about BarCamp! Drinks on Friday, camping on Saturday and Sunday!

    (And the permalink for this post is broken)

    Posted by Mark Wubben at

  2. Very much bah. Fixed now though.

    Posted by Anne at

  3. It surprised me the teacher was surprised that attributes don’t inherit the default namespace.

    Wait... What? FFS. I better go learn XML properly then.

    Posted by hemebond at

  4. That's a lot of X's in your life. The point about overlapping (wouldn't a better term be "related"?) elements is interesting. You could have a set of paragraphs where certain ones were part of a group. In HTML, you would have to indicate this with a DIV around them (to add a border or background perhaps) or add a class to each paragraph one by one. At least I think this is what you are on about.

    Posted by Chris Hester at

  5. I must be missing something, but why are those dates in 2005?

    As far as I know those dates are not even valid 2005 dates. What gives?

    Posted by Sébastien at

  6. Chris, say you have “foo bar baz.” Now you want to group “foo bar” together but also “bar baz.” That’s the issue I described.

    Sébastien, thanks, fixed that as well. That should learn me not to post around midnight.

    Posted by Anne at 

  7. <p id="foo">foo</p>
<p id="bar">bar</p>
<p id="baz">baz</p>
<group><p ref="foo" /><p ref="bar" /></group>
<group><p ref="bar" /><p ref="baz" /></group>

    Lame, I know. But it is well known that few data actually follows a tree model. But it's easy to work around it with references. Almost every XML format has (needs) references. If you work with HTML a lot it might be tempting to define special syntax for overlapping ranges, but it is just a special case of a graph that is not a tree.

    Posted by Sjoerd Visscher at

  8. XTech and perhaps some university party. XTech is probably most about meeting people for me. Not sure I care about the talks that much (I probably do), although the ones from my superiors are obviously very good and well worth going to! Going to XTech together with Jorgen most likely.

    Well, I enjoyed listening to last year’s talks a lot, and I hope to do the same this year :).

    ~Grauw

    Posted by Laurens Holst at 

  9. <span class="group1">foo</span>
<span class="group1 group2">bar</span>
<span class="group2">baz</span>

    Posted by zcorpan at

  10. Sounds you have had a great time. I am going to the conference as well. I'll call you tomorrow.

    Posted by Jorgen Horstink at

  11. The problem with Sjoerd Visscher's approach is that bar is repeated twice. This could lead to speech browsers and non-CSS users reading the same content twice.

    Posted by Chris Hester at