Brett Zamir (brettz9)

Brett Zamir Leigh L Klotz Jr

@klotz: You got word of http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/01/indexeddb-in-firefox-4/ already?

Brett Zamir Leigh L Klotz Jr

@klotz: Imagine FF ext and Wikipedia/Wikisource ext to download X/HT/ML doc to IndexedDB for queries by web apps (on or offsite)

Brett Zamir Leigh L Klotz Jr

@klotz: Heck,yes! But hope can also be avail as indep JS lib for browser XProc,SSJS,Ajax (incl x-domain if browsers can b made 2 request)etc

Brett Zamir

For those who believe humanity is a family, every war is a civil war...

Brett Zamir

Encouraging & interesting on Mozilla in Africa: http://somethin-else.org/index.php?post/2010/09/04/Mozilla-in-Africa

Brett Zamir

Very annoyed at the UI-simplicity-at-any-cost race to the bottom in browsers (and even the speed at any cost race seems over-emphasized)

Brett Zamir

"The hearts of all children are of the utmost purity…on account of…weakness, whereas…man becomes pure through his strength." 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Tim Berners-Lee

Google now indexes SVG http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-now-indexes-svg.html #SVG #W3C @W3C

Brett Zamir

It's 2010--Why aren't mainstream repositories also editable/patchable via wiki?

Brett Zamir

Imagine a U.N. convention requiring world citizenship be taught in all schools with monitoring for state-sanctioned hate

Brett Zamir

If our media actually educated people on real life in other countries, we might all get along with each other and not remain so ignorant

Brett Zamir

Biggest barrier to peace: ingrained belief it is impossible/against our nature (despite contrary evidence--tribes uniting into nations)

Brett Zamir

Sorry, realized query could be even shorter, using just XPath: distinct-values(doc()//*/local-name())

Brett Zamir

Get unique XMLelements: for $a in distinct-values(doc()//*/local-name()) return $a. XQuery is very convenient (here to find XUL needing XSL)

Brett Zamir

Should be a campaign for the "rule of law" at the intl level, and its implication for an end to absolute national sovereignty.

Brett Zamir

Anyone like to help implement #XQuery in #JavaScript? http://code.google.com/p/jsxqueryparser/ brettz9 is at Yahoo

Brett Zamir

"U.S.A. joins Netherlands, U.K. and European Union in chorus of condemnation at prison sentences": http://news.bahai.org/story/788

Brett Zamir

'And when you ask 'em, how much should we give, they only answer, "More, more, more!"'

Brett Zamir

God, I love CCR...So many painfully true statements, not a bit less for today...

Brett Zamir

"Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,don't they help themselves? but when the tax man come to the door…house look like a rummage sale"