@meiqinyan.bsky.social
adult human being / ovaltine drinker / c++, javascript & xml enthusiast
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It's only too late if you're dead, and you are not dead.
December 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
It's only too late if you're dead, and you are not dead.
(editing html by hand) i wanna have control. i want a perfect <body>
October 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
(editing html by hand) i wanna have control. i want a perfect <body>
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@neocities.org FIX XHTML SUPPORT AND LET US USE XHTML AS INDEX >:3
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@neocities.org FIX XHTML SUPPORT AND LET US USE XHTML AS INDEX >:3
April Fools idea: browser with a validating HTML5 parser. Any syntax error hard-aborts processing like in XML, leaving just an error message.
October 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
April Fools idea: browser with a validating HTML5 parser. Any syntax error hard-aborts processing like in XML, leaving just an error message.
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java applets walked so wasm could walk
October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
java applets walked so wasm could walk
i'm so extremely ambivalent
October 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i'm so extremely ambivalent
what if soapcore supported wsdl 2.0 . what if we lived in a world that made sense
October 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
what if soapcore supported wsdl 2.0 . what if we lived in a world that made sense
I'm COPING AND SEETHING over the new W3C logo what is this?????
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I'm COPING AND SEETHING over the new W3C logo what is this?????
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September 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
RDFa attributes must either be in no namespace, or the XHTML namespace, others aren't valid; so you can't get that brevity of expression if you use the sophisticated XLink attributes like you would otherwise.
Not a showstopper, but definitely unsatisfying.
Not a showstopper, but definitely unsatisfying.
September 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
RDFa attributes must either be in no namespace, or the XHTML namespace, others aren't valid; so you can't get that brevity of expression if you use the sophisticated XLink attributes like you would otherwise.
Not a showstopper, but definitely unsatisfying.
Not a showstopper, but definitely unsatisfying.
An XSL-FO renderer for OpenXPS is one of those things I want to exist but would never want anyone to have to implement.
September 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
An XSL-FO renderer for OpenXPS is one of those things I want to exist but would never want anyone to have to implement.
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People say "learn the fundamentals of web development!" but then act like you're crazy for knowing SGML.
September 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
People say "learn the fundamentals of web development!" but then act like you're crazy for knowing SGML.
I was wondering what if Tim Berners-Lee had chosen a quieter syntax for HTML back then, maybe XML wouldn't be so verbose. Then it occurred to me, has anyone ever tried to define (a subset of) JSON as a concrete syntax of SGML?
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I was wondering what if Tim Berners-Lee had chosen a quieter syntax for HTML back then, maybe XML wouldn't be so verbose. Then it occurred to me, has anyone ever tried to define (a subset of) JSON as a concrete syntax of SGML?
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Maybe it's the year of the ReactOS Desktop
May 25, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Maybe it's the year of the ReactOS Desktop
wasn't trivial, but I'm done with the XSLT stylesheet for my bookmarks! Time to take in the wonders of pure XML uwu
March 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
wasn't trivial, but I'm done with the XSLT stylesheet for my bookmarks! Time to take in the wonders of pure XML uwu
can't say i hate the new pixiv logo
February 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
can't say i hate the new pixiv logo
started from the bottom now we're here
January 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
started from the bottom now we're here
the silverlight logo deserved better
January 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
the silverlight logo deserved better
<cstdbool> will always remain in my thoughts
January 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
<cstdbool> will always remain in my thoughts
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GCC Patches Posted For Half-Century Old ALGOL 68 Programming Language - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-ALGOL-68-Language-Front-End
GCC Patches Posted For Half-Century Old ALGOL 68 Programming Language
Mere hours into 2025 and some news I didn't expect to be writing about... An Oracle engineer has posted a set of patches implementing an ALGOL 68 programming language front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). These are work-in-progress patches for the half century old niche programming language...
www.phoronix.com
January 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
GCC Patches Posted For Half-Century Old ALGOL 68 Programming Language - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-ALGOL-68-Language-Front-End
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January 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
why isn't ' in HTML can someone add that
January 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
why isn't ' in HTML can someone add that