Loose thoughts
A set of ideas, some developed, some not more than a single
sentence, for which I haven't found a better place yet. ([fr] =
in French; [nl] = in Dutch)
- DJ-1000 digital camera
- The contents of the two original floppies; and my own C
program for converting the proprierary image format to PPM.
- Tagging classical music
- How I tag classical music in Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.
- vorbiscommentedit
- A little Unix shell script to make it easier to edit Ogg (Ogg
Vorbis) and FLAC comments with a text editor.
- Finding local events
- There are many sites with information and despite that it is
difficult to find what is happening in a given week.
- Matisse, Viallat and some anonymous statues
[fr]
- Some beautiful painting and collages by Matisse, with the
response by the Nice painter Viallat. But the winner is the
exhibition of old statues in the former cathedral.
- Three villages [fr]
- Strange road signs at the city limit of Cagnes-sur-Mer,
unless it is the city limit of Villeneuve-Loubet…
- The school museum in Antibes
- A small museum, driven by a very enthusiastic team.
- Honouring font preferences in browsers
- A setting in browsers that re-maps all font sizes in a page
instead of only the smallest ones might help make pages easier
to read.
- Les chaises et le bagne [fr]
- A small essay on two plays.
- “JavaScript, the worst invention
ever”
- That phrase of mine has been quoted and commented by others
on the Web. Let's add some context: it's about JavaScript
in HTML.
- One trace of Roman Antibes wiped [fr]
- A small part of the remains of the Roman aqueduct of Antibes
has been removed. A pity.
- news.wanadoo.fr
- If news.wanadoo.fr doesn't work, it may be because of
Wanadoo's undocumented DNS trickery.
- Online literature shop
- You can buy music online and download it immediately, but you
can't buy books that way.
- What
is a good standard?
- An essay about rules of thumb for the design of a good
technology for the Web.
- Short thoughts
- A page of ultra-short ideas.
- An API
for WWW Applets
- Documentation for a set of APIs for a browser that is built
completely out of plug-ins. Dates from early 1995, but is still
an elegant architecture.
- Cables and travelling
- The modern business traveller has his methods to keep the
cables he carries untangled.
- Navigation menus
- It is time the LINK element of HTML gets used for what it was
made for: site navigation.
- CSS and
device-independence
- A short "position paper" for a workshop.
- Ideas for ways of linking style sheets to
documents
- Some missing technology on the Web: how to associate style
sheets with document, when you cannot add a link to the
document.
- The paradox of portals
- Portals were invented to concentrate Web traffic, but there
are so many now that they rather help to distribute the load
than concentrate it.
- The "meta-location" HTTP header
- In January 2003, some people proposed an extension to HTTP to
associate meta-data documents with other documents. It's very
simple and therefore worth consideration.
- Installing a USB reader for Compact Flash on
Linux
- I had to patch the kernel source, but it works.
- Le service après vente de
France Télécom [fr]
- Does it exist?
- Web
applications
- An essay on the technology needed for possible “webapps,”
small programs that can be downloaded and executed in a browser
(like Java applets, but easier to make for small applications).
- A
proposal for Webapps
- An essay focusing on the requirements for the technology to
make webapps as easy and as robust as possible.
Bert Bos
Created 17 February 2002