Category Archives: Techie

XForms for HTML Authors

XForms for HTML Authors
XForms is the new markup language for forms on the Web. This document is a quick introduction to XForms for HTML Forms authors. It shows you how to convert existing forms to their XForms equivalent. It assumes knowledge of HTML Forms, so is not a beginner’s tutorial. Although there is mention of additional facilities of XForms beyond those possible in HTML Forms (marked with an asterisk on the headings), it is not a full tutorial on all features of XForms.

I think it’d be foolish if we didn’t at least read about xforms, I’ve been looking at GUI tookits lately too, like WxWidgets, XUL, XAML, TKinter and a few others- if anyone knows of any other gui toolkits preferably with a gecko widget let me know.

Python Bookmarks

While playing around with Python over the last few days I came up with my online bookmarks. As we use python alot in work, I figure it was time I learn it properly. What i’ve written is a few python classes that parse the firefox bookmarks file (for some reason this file is not xml, not xhtml and not rdf.. just some shitty html, so parsing the file was a bitch), transforms it to xbel (bookmarks storage format) using xslt, Another class uploads the xbel to my server by ftp. The final class takes the xbel file and transforms it yet again (using xslt) to the final xhtml version. It’s a bit rusty still but I’ll give it another while and see if I can create a simple exe and then post it here.

rss2wml

rss2wml logoHave you ever been trying to browse your favourite news sites on your mobile device?

Was at absolute nightmare trying to navigate around and enter urls and usernames and passwords and all sorts?

If you answer yes to the 2 questions above… check out rss2wml (http://rss2wml.com). Admittedly I have just started development and there is nothing to try out but the idea is now up which will hopefully force me to actually develop the project. I have everything set up and ready to go so hopefully development will be smooth with quick releases.

Let me know if you think it is a worthwhile project or if not, why?

ps. I’m not a designer ๐Ÿ™‚