Project Weblogs

Hal M has an interesting specification for project web logs. Do we extend weblogs to CMS, or vice versa? [via C&C]

Follow-up: the IdeaGraph has a DTD for project meta data. wiki project management.|||
Posted at NaN:NaN, Published in: Blogging Academia

A better back button

Andy Cockburn's work on a better back button has gotten oodles of press. The general idea is questioning the value of tree trimming in the history list. Changing something as heavily used as the back button is always going to be a challange, but it seems likely that it would be a good thing.

I've been known to implement unproven things and this one would seem to be right up my alley. Cockburn, et al. use a wacky overlay from a separate application to get the job done. With Mozilla, I, in theory, could make it happen with a minimum of fuss. Alas, this longstanding bug prevents an elegant solution. I'm tempted to take the idea a step further and file a bug on mozilla for a fully hierarchical back tree... |||
Posted at NaN:NaN, Published in: Mozilla UI

Chiming In

I've watched the blog and mainstream press of the Google-Pyra deal with great interest, especially given my recent forays into blogging software. Anil Dash's humourous coverage was certainly appreciated, but on the serious side of things I haven't seen a lot of coverage of how google might address the shortcomings of Blogger's services. In particular, given Google's take over of UseNet, they might be able to amass some criitical expertise in online conversation -- every blog a usenet group? blog comments via usenet? Clearly, the infrastructure for trackback is firmly in place.

Hopefully, blogs will provide greater diversity of discussion topics and formats than usenet and challenge google to develop more robust threaded conversation browsing. I mean, come on, ASCII art in the world's #1 interface? |||
Posted at NaN:NaN, Published in: Blogging

DHTML Spotting

Jens B pointed out this nifty and highly developed Javascript Drawing Library as we decided to release the Mozilla Gestures 0.3.5 add-on. We'll likely put some drawing routines to work in the help system -- v.0.4 is also slated to have a more extensive user customization framework. |||
Posted at NaN:NaN, Published in: Mozilla Code