PrinceXML Is Extremely Impressive —
I didn’t know it was possible to build such nice closed-source programs.
tomayko.com
01:06
Mercury is a new, purely declarative logic programming language. —
What PrinceXML is coded in, apparently. It’s like Prolog for large systems: declarative, strongly typed and type inferencing, module system, closures, currying, lambdas, and with a strong determinism system. Compiles down to C (as a portable assembler).
mercury.cs.mu.oz.au
12:15
Printing a Book with CSS: Boom! —
Bert Bos and Håkon Wium Lie show off some of Prince’s more advanced CSS and HTML features, including styling page size, generating headers/footers, advanced use of the CSS content attribute, page numbering, cross-references, and table of contents.
alistapart.com
07:58
Håkon's Wium Lie —
Ahh, it turns out Håkon’s Wium Lie (Opera CTO and the guy who first proposed CSS) is on YesLogic’s board, makers of PrinceXML. I’m not sure how I missed that.
princexml.com
07:49