Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

It’s just over a week since my 19 year old son, Kyle M...
As I write we have only a couple of possible sightings a ...
As an HCI academic with an interest in web usability it⠮..
But as a user I am also aware of a certain cognitive ove ...
... is spot

Nothing demonstrates the wildfire spread of online socia... MySpace and Facebook better than the experience 73 Stanf... last fall. They were enrolled in the computer science co...
Most of the apps resemble party games or amusements—Sc ...
It's that k

F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content
Summary:
Eyetracking visualizations show that users often rea ...
F for fast. That's how users read your precious content. ...
... spottier heatmap. This last element forms the F's stem.

This site is intended as a reference for the UTF8-8 enco... characters. You can look up the UTF-8 encoding in variou... hexadecimal, octal, binary, and as literals for use e.g.... and you can test if your browser will display the actual... depending o

Early adopters of Apple's newly released OS X 10.5 Leopa... are unable to work with the latest version of the Java p... language.

Early adopters of Apple's newly released OS X 10.5 Leopa... are unable to work with the latest version of the Java p... language.

Presenting Semantic Web content in a human-readable way ... addressing two issues: specifying what information conta... graph should be presented and how this information shoul... Each RDF browser or visualization tool currently relies ... mechanisms

W3C has launched a new HTML validation site, the Nu Mark... Service. From a Semantic Web point of view it is importa... default setting of the validator validates HTML5 with RD... with microdata, the two simpler syntaxes to add structur... Furthermore

Reification in this context means the expression of some... using the language, so that it becomes treatable by the ... graphs consist of RDF statements. If one wants to look o... RDF graph and reason about it is using RDF tools, then i... least in th

Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) are a new ... complement to URIs [RFC2396]. An IRI is a sequence of ch... Universal Character Set (Unicode/ISO10646). There is a m... to URIs, which means that IRIs can be used instead of UR... appropriate

This section defines the syntax and semantics of all sta...
HTTP/1.1 header fields. For entity-header fields, bot ...
recipient refer to either the client or the server, d ...
sends and who receives the entit

Cool URIs don't change
What makes a cool URI?
A cool URI is one which does not change.
What sorts of URI change?
... f forethought. Here are some reasons you hear out there:

The Resource Description Framework RDF allows users to d... documents and concepts from the real world—people, org... topics, things—in a computer-processable way. Publishi... descriptions on the Web creates the Semantic Web. URIs (... Identifiers

The recommendations in this document are intended to imp... of the Web on mobile devices. While the recommendations ...
As discussed in the Scope document [Scope], One Web mean ...
Some services have a primarily mobile appeal (location b ...
It is likel

5.1.5 rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty
The rdfs:ContainerMembershipProperty class has as instan ...
Given a container C, a triple of the form:
C rdf:_nnn O
... rties may be applied to resources other than containers.

Due to the size and rate of change on the Web, the close... (which states that anything that cannot be inferred is a... false) is inappropriate. However, there are many situati... closed-world information would be useful. Therefore, the... able to sta

WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

This menu system is a combination of two older DHTML men... developed:
* The MouseMenu, which was based upon Microsoft's me ...
* The XWebMenu (old version), a traditional menu system.
Along with combining functionalities, new features have ...

Welcome on Webcron, the automated task service at set ho... Unix or Linux you already heard about the Crontab. Webcr... adaptation of this well known Crontab. But nothing compl...
What is the use of Webcron ?
Webcron allows you to do tasks at set hours

Many of my customers hold data in Excel files. Then, whe...
Since the PHP allows you to create an OLE compatible COM ...
Before we start, let’s introduce input parameters of t ...
* $file – (string) absolute path to the Excel data ...
... 36.}

If you site needs pop-ups to work properly, this little ...
var popWin = window.open("","ptest","width=1,height=1,le ...
if (popWin) {
  popWin.blur();
... }

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* title  : Enchancing dd/mm/yyyy forms with unobtrusive ...
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* story  : Two javascript functions to enchance interact ...
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Drag’n drop generally looks hard-to-apply but it is de... using JavaScript frameworks. Here is, how it is done by ... jQuery UI:

Drag’n drop generally looks hard-to-apply but it is de... using JavaScript frameworks. Here is, how it is done by ... jQuery UI:

websnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any we... visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clic... traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

Sometimes, it is desirable to annotate content with specific machine-readable labels, e.g. to allow generic scripts t... that are customised to the page, or to enable content fr... cooperating authors to be processed by a single script i...
For this pu

Online DataBase Converter (beta)
Online DataBase Converter allows you to convert your fil ...
There are following directions:
Online Database Converter
... * PDB (Palm database) to DBF

WikiCFP is a semantic wiki for Calls For Papers in scien... fields. There are about 50,000 CFPs on WikiCFP. Over 100... use WikiCFP each month.

Creole is a common wiki markup language to be used acros... It's not replacing existing markup but instead enabling ... transfer content seamlessly across wikis, and for novice... contribute more easily. Creole will create a community o... developers

Looking to spur wiki adoption? Want to grow from 10 user... Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts ... growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that mi... - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success.
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