I'm interested in building a list of "Link Dropper" sites and would welcome suggestions if you have any. What do I mean by a Link Dropper? Basically a site that will drop some data into your existing webpage using a scripting language, e.g. Javascript or PHP. My canonical example is the Meerkat Javascript Source flavour … Continue reading Link Droppers →

There's usually more than one way to get something on the net. There are dozens of online bookstores, search engines, new sites, document repositories, etc, etc. And we all have different preferences. Even for sites like Google and Amazon there is room for choice, e.g. different Google mirrors or regional Amazon sites. Yet when we … Continue reading User-Centred Linking →

Rick Jelliffe has been working on Schematron once more, showing how to add support for variables and an implementation of the "abstract patterns" concept which was apparently the central idea behind Schematron's original design. The idea is that there are basic patterns, e.g. head/body, table/row/cells that are common to many different markup vocabularies. The individual … Continue reading Schematron and Architectural Forms →