to an article that has been making the rounds in a big way in the last ten days or so: How Microsoft Lost the API War by Joel Spolsky. There have been many reaction pieces, but this piece on Daring Fireball by John Gruber adds the most interesting perspective. “…whatfs ironic is that [Microsoft is] losing this war despite the fact that they won the browser war.”
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Patrick Griffiths of HTML Dog
is starting to look at HTML and CSS for Mobiles. If you’re been following the discourse over the use of CSS and standard, mostly-table-less XHTML for any amount of time, you’ve certainly bumped into the argument – one of the strongest, in theory – that future non-laptop/desktop computers accessing sites will benefit from such techniques. Griffiths is putting the proposition to the test.
If you liked the plaintext
version, you’re going to love it in hypertext: Cory Doctorow’s Microsoft Research DRM talk. Courtesy of Anil Dash, and Haughey did yet another version based on Dash’s, but even easier to read.
If you’ve noticed any critiques of this talk on the net, please let me know!
There are pictures from today’s
first non-government-sponsored (aka private) space launch. See them at the Alan’s Mojave Airport Weblog.
Over at Montreal City Weblog
Kate has posted a nice, succinct summary about the demerger referenda that were held yesterday. My only comment was that at work, where many are West Islanders, few understood that we residents of Montreal-proper had no vote, we had nothing to vote for. Not even whether we wanted to demerger them.
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