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Royalty-free MPEG video codec ups the ante for Google's WebM/VP8(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by Isofarro 16y ago|0 comments
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How Poor Execution And Practices Break The Web(farukat.es)
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"I cannot for the life of me understand why any business would sink the foundations of their brand into the sands of the questionably stable Libyan regime." Is that any more risky than a supposedly stable US Department of Justice and Homela
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by Isofarro 16y ago
> sed 's/#!\///g' urls.txt | xargs curl So easy, you've actually got it wrong. Certain special characters after the hash-bang need to be url-encoded, and then that value needs to be added to what's before the #! by including a query str
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"If you want to curl a hashbang URL (or access its content in some other non-Javascript-requiring way), there's a pretty easy way to do it. Just do the same thing Google does and remove the hashbang." Which command line option on curl does
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"And that's the issue here—forcing non-compliant agents to change in order to do what they've always done runs in the face of the Robustness Principle." You nailed it. Hashbang URLs are not backwards compatible with the existing World Wide
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by Isofarro 16y ago
That rings a bell. Commercial support of existing products. http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/08/despite-petiti...
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by Isofarro 16y ago
I have this theory that in London at rush hour, the space available on a busy train will exactly hold the total number of London commuters that are waiting at the platform. Apart from myself, I've never seen a London commuter not get on a t
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by Isofarro 16y ago
[backporting IE9.0 to Windows XP]: "It may be commercially sensible for them to do so, but that depends on many other factors beyond the preferences of the web development community." It's not within Microsoft's strategy of planned obsolesc
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by Isofarro 16y ago
I'm bemused by this: "It's more than a shame Microsoft's not providing IE9 on XP. It's positively criminal. Do you know what it's like to target IE8 with a web app that was built for a modern browser? And XP has 60% of the market!" Consider
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Hash, Bang, Wallop.(blog.benward.me)
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by Isofarro 16y ago
Excellent documentary on YouTube covering the year long open-sourcing of Mozilla, right up to the point of jwz leaving Netscape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig (via codinghorror: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/lived
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by Isofarro 16y ago
Google's proposed kludge doesn't limit URLs to the site root - a path segment is documented. Have a read of it: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/specification.h...
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by Isofarro 16y ago
Hash-bang URLs are not reliable references to content - that's what I am getting at. Curl and WGet are perhaps the most used non-browser user-agents on the web. And both of them are unable to retrieve content at a URL specified by a hash-ba
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by Isofarro 16y ago
1.) Is a limitation of Google's crawlable Ajax proposal. That would probably not have occurred with a proper standards body. What sequence of events would have to happen to have that as an inbound URL? I sense some previous JavaScript would
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by Isofarro 16y ago
Can you not use JavaScript to figure out your URL is a mess and redirect accordingly? JavaScript for redirecting people to the homepage of websites have been available on dynamicdrive.com for at least a decade now. That's one redirect to th
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by Isofarro 16y ago
I tried both curl and wget last night (neither of these are HTML5-ready browsers), and neither of them could get content using the hash-bang URL. They both came back with an empty page skeleton. Also, how do you reassemble the hash-bang URL
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by Isofarro 16y ago
Ran into another interesting shortcoming of hash-bang URLs last night looking through my referrer log. Loads of referring URLs of http://gawker.com/ and http://kotaku.com/ to my blogpost. But no mention at all of my blog-post or a link
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"I wish, unfortunately this is only supported in the very latest browsers (I've literally seen one website do this [1]). You can only change the portion of the address bar following the "#" with javascript, which is why you see URLs like "/
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"The author does his point a disservice by being under-informed, imo." I admit my Google searching turned up no useful results about hash-banging URLs for new websites, only Google's attempt to index sites that ignored progressive enhanceme
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"The author also completely misses the business case: putting a single gateway through which Google can index makes sense for huge content generators." That's called a domain name. www.lifehacker.com is a single gateway to all of lifehacker
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Build your own MAME cabinet - Nanocade(koenigs.dk)
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by Isofarro 16y ago
How does being funded affect your long term goals of lanyrd being a lifestyle business rather than "the next facebook"(tm)? (cf. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/nov/04/lanyrd-twitt... ) Are the two activities mutually inclusive?
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by Isofarro 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_English -- lists loads of options for watching, from online, to terrestrial, cable, to satellite, to Internet TV.
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"Sure, double whatever salary you're offering and I might consider it. Otherwise it would be a big drop in my standard of living - nice big apartment up here for cardboard box down there." I think this gets to the heart of the cultural diff
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"If you have to make cuts, you really want do it once, all at the same time, and then put it behind you." I'm fairly sure that's what Yahoo did at the end of 2008 in their "Get Fit" exercise. We were told that the cuts would be severe so th
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by Isofarro 16y ago
"This website is in the mail. Coincidentally, the same mail that you, dear customer, used to send the payment cheque. I'm sure it will arrive, any day now."
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by Isofarro 16y ago
The point of understanding the fundamentals of DOM means being able to adapt when the library abstraction you are using leaks. We are not in a state where libraries have effectively or completely abstracted DOM and BOM, so sometimes seeing
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by Isofarro 16y ago
Number 1 in the UK, Number 1 in Germany. Big growth in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
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by Isofarro 16y ago
Amazon sold it's DVD rental services in Germany and the UK to Lovefilm for a 48% stake in the company. Today they acquired the outstanding 52%.

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