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New comment by _micheee in "Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996)"

_micheee — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:23:44 +0000

I just found out you may - even in current HTML use entity references in attribute values, it’s just you don’t have to anymore, when the ampersand is not ambiguous.

The spec states it as: “Attribute values are a mixture of text and character references, except with the additional restriction that the text cannot contain an ambiguous ampersand.”

Whereas in the the days before HTML5 this has been mandatory.

> HTML 4.01 Specification – Appendix B.2.2 “Ampersands in URI attribute values”

https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2

> Unfortunately, the use of the “&” character to separate form fields interacts with its use in SGML attribute values to delimit character entity references.

New comment by _micheee in "Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996)"

_micheee — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:33:32 +0000

Seems Like the recommendation changed from supporting ; and & to only using &.

Thinking about it, it is a little surprising as, if I remember correctly, in HTML source you should encode & as & right?

New comment by _micheee in "The lost art of XML"

_micheee — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:21:40 +0000

We do XML processing, albeit with XQuery, as a small business.

It is a very niche solution but actually very stable and quite handy for all kinds of data handling; web-based applications and APIs as it nicely integrates with all kinds of text-based formats such as JSON, CSV or XML.

Yet I can easily comprehend how people get lost in all kinds of standards, meta-standards, DTDs, schemas, namespaces, and modeling the whole enterprise in SOAP.

However, you can do simple things simply and small, but in my experience, most tools promised to solve problems with ever-layered complexities.

Little disclaimer, I am probably biased, as I am with BaseX, an open-source XQuery processor :-)

New comment by _micheee in "XMLUI"

_micheee — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:35:26 +0000

This reminds me of XForms and its fully declarative approach. It allowed you to add interactivity to your HTML without writing code.

New comment by _micheee in "Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust"

_micheee — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 06:10:54 +0000

We also use BaseX to write restful backends with RestXQ - https://docs.basex.org/12/RESTXQ - the documentation itself is written in XQuery as well and uses a BaseX database as a source.

New comment by _micheee in "Postbox has been acquired by eM Client"

_micheee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 05:47:45 +0000

> Thank you for signing up for the Postbox Beta. We'll be sure to let you know when the Beta is ready.

Man, I’m getting old: just searched my mail and found this mail from… January 26 2009 :-)

I liked it, but it always felt like it “only” added some quality of life functions to Thunderbird.

New comment by _micheee in "Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?"

_micheee — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:59:15 +0000

Not only software but also infrastructure & protocols: N.T.P.: — https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thor...

I found it quite a good read!

New comment by _micheee in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

_micheee — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:59:32 +0000

The built-in unbound dns server has support for blocklists, maybe you want to give it a try: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/unbound.html

New comment by _micheee in "Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic"

_micheee — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:11:30 +0000

Why so rude?

New comment by _micheee in "XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works"

_micheee — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:45:39 +0000

Why?

New comment by _micheee in "P5.js – A library to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators"

_micheee — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:14:17 +0000

I really enjoy watching his videos, if only just for pure entertainment.

I never really touched processing or p5js, still I like the way Daniel introduces and teaches core programming concepts. Seems to be a great guy!

New comment by _micheee in "A method to promote sleep in crying infants using the transport response [pdf]"

_micheee — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:30:40 +0000

Even a 5-6 month old must feel pretty unloved. Just put yourself in their position: can't walk, can't talk, can't get out of bed, feels tired, feels all alone, cries for help and comfort but is ultimately ignored.

That's the most worst message you can send out to a person of any age.

I often hear people say: but they learn, they manipulate you as if a baby’s personality was naturally hostile and their main reason in life was betraying their parents. :)

New comment by _micheee in "Rocky Linux 9.0"

_micheee — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:18:09 +0000

In case you don't intend distrohopping you use this for being "an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®."

So its actually for people trying to replace CentOS which RedHat decided to drop :)

New comment by _micheee in "A Fun List of Browsers"

_micheee — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:44:21 +0000

Thought of it yesterday! I used it in the mid 90s when I gave about every software I could find a chance. I only remember it being awfully slow, but I did not care to much as our families 28.8 modem was slow as well :)