Michael Day's weblog

The web needs subscriptions, not micropayments

Wed, 30 Jun 2004

During the early years of the web it was often predicted that micropayments would form the basis of a new online economy. That failed to happen

Web applications may fracture the web

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 – Updated: 07 Jun 2004

The web is an application platform like no other. It is available worldwide and can be accessed from an incredible range of devices using open standard protocols

On the web, annotation beats transclusion

Wed, 02 Jun 2004

Like transclusion, annotation is an interesting hypertext technology that has not been widely implemented on the web. However, unlike transclusion, annotation fits well into the web architecture

On the web, blockquote beats transclusion

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 – Updated: 02 Jun 2004

The blockquote element is widely used for good reason: it is more efficient, more reliable, safer and more expressive than transclusion can ever be

The Pleasing Purple Pilcrow Permalink

Mon, 31 May 2004 – Updated: 01 Jun 2004

This monstrous octalthorpe can be replaced with an elegant symbol that actually belongs at the end of a line: the PILCROW SIGN

‘Purple Numbers’ show a need for better linking tools

Sun, 30 May 2004 – Updated: 01 Jun 2004

‘Purple numbers’ as recently praised by Jonas Luster, Chris Dent and Tim Bray are an inelegant solution to the problem of granular linking