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Hypermedia Systems We hope to have convinced you that hypermedia, rather than being a “legacy” technology or a technology only appropriate for “documents” of links, text and pictures, is, in fact, a powerful technology for building applications. In this book you have seen how to build sophisticated user interfaces — for both the web, with htmx, and for mobile applications, using Hyperview — using hypermedia as a core underlying application technology. ...

“xkcd: ISO 8601” by Randall Munroe (xkcd) Public service announcement: Our different ways of writing dates as numbers can lead to online confusion. that’s why in 1988 iso set a global standard numeric date format. ...

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ColorADD — A code for the colour blind Using five simple graphic symbols that represents each of the three Primary Colors (Cyan, Yellow and Magenta), plus Black and White, allows through a logical “mental game”, an overall Color interpretation, for ALL!