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by noibl 16y ago
> Google wanted to raise the game by fast-tracking browser innovation and enabling development of next-gen web-apps, and they have. We're not there yet. The underlying promise of the browser as application client is still largely unfulf
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by noibl 16y ago
'There is another theory which states that this has already happened' -- DNA Stross says: 'I have a gut feeling that the reason we're so communicative is that we are, at a very fundamental level, a communication phenomenon' If spamming can
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by noibl 16y ago
Where does Arrington get off, calling for the head of Yahoo's CEO without once disclosing that he's owned by a major competitor? That said, I don't have much issue with the content.
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by noibl 16y ago
Maybe if the security badge hadn't been so gigantic and cartoonish, the results would have been different. The conclusion that 'every site is unique and best practices shouldn't be adopted without doing any testing', while intuitively sensi
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by noibl 16y ago
It might be a more usable quiz if the source pages for a given question were somehow clustered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists
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by noibl 16y ago
The UI from Google was little more than proof-of-concept. The ability to sync arbitrary data, not just chat text, on the fly is what will make Wave useful if it ever sees wide adoption. That really is the core concept and not chat, as man
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by noibl 16y ago
The core concept is: a robust method for automatically merging concurrent changes to a published resource by collaborating users in real-time (OT). It's true that other key components of Wave were seen as essential to its success (in partic
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by noibl 16y ago
Not a direct response -- I wanted to reply to the parent which was just deleted. It mentioned 'legal and ethical reasons'. An obvious legal problem would seem to be demonstrating the segregation of public data from private data under Google
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by noibl 16y ago
One thing that confused me about this was the claim that it might selectively advantage solar electricity production. I can understand that the system might work at small scale, making it available for deployment in preference to photovolta
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by noibl 16y ago
Surely "when I'm tired" is one of the situations in which this tech should not be used. In Australia, for example, where long-distance driving is common, fatigue is one of the biggest contributors to road accident statistics. Apart from the
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by noibl 16y ago
HTML5 was never about designers. It's all about functional interfaces for web applications. http://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/opera.html You won't find anything in there about facilitating graphic designers.
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by noibl 16y ago
> SVG is based on VML. Microsoft proposed it to W3C ( http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML ), and W3C developed it further until it became SVG. Not exactly. When Adobe and Netscape submitted PGML[1] for standardisation, Macromedia and Microsof
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by noibl 16y ago
> Perhaps description of the video makes description of poster redundant? Maybe one can use ARIA? Maybe media framework can extract description from the video file? The plan seems to be that <track kind="descriptions" src="desc.en.s
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by noibl 16y ago
Zapruder's Other Films is a prolific and highly respected publishing house with a history of feature length theatrical releases[1] as per IMDB's original advice[2]. The problem is that they've stated this (a production history) as the onl
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by noibl 16y ago
> According to the answerer, rewriting these libraries would amount to rewriting IE9 as IE8 with a GUI upgrade. I couldn't find this in the discussion. It also seems unlikely given how tangential D2D is to most of the interesting featur
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by noibl 16y ago
There's no such thing as a 'word-wrap: pre element'.
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by noibl 16y ago
The STYLE element has the attribute 'contenteditable' and the CSS style 'display: block'.
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by noibl 16y ago
Do you have any references for Microsoft's invention of HTML tables, CSS* , SSL2 and 'i18n DNS'? * Sure, IE may have had CSS support before Netscape but that hardly makes it their innovation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Css#History hasLa
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by noibl 16y ago
> You're talking about how IE9 itself could have been improved No, I'm talking about how deeply in the product dubious marketing ideas (such as creating up-sell opportunities) have been embedded. The problem is that 'IE9 makes use of fe
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by noibl 16y ago
> Why not just say that IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7, but not in XP. Even better, why not take a leaf out of the books of the four major cross-platform browsers and make opportunistic use of OS features.
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by noibl 16y ago
There's more to Intellectual positioning than signalling one's intelligence, even if the underlying motives are assumed to be more-or-less base. Hipsterism in general is about being ahead of the curve, not necessarily being the smartest in
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by noibl 16y ago
Yeah, I was surprised not to see your sample XML in the article. I really hope this appeal gains some traction. Pinning and jump-lists should be seen as Windows 7 features, not IE9 features (which runs on Vista too).
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by noibl 16y ago
Previous discussion for background: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1704173
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by noibl 16y ago
The external resource can be cached, pre-generated, shared, managed separately from your page templates. The main argument seems to be that the metadata involved here is to do with the site, not the page, whereas <meta> tags should
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by noibl 16y ago
Or is there.. http://sourceforge.net/projects/wincachegrind/
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by noibl 16y ago
Out of sympathy for the Firefox sadface earlier in this thread: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125/ 'Edit textareas using an external editor, because it's all text!'
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by noibl 16y ago
The author links to his wife's blog post of a year ago in which she says a major part of the problem is the lack of an easy, legal way to access the material in question. He later links to a site where he says his work is available for inst
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by noibl 16y ago
Having perused the mailing list discussion it seems clear to me that certain entities within the W3C HTML WG (including Apple[1]) are now seeking to emphasise emerging differences (however slight or hard-won) between the W3C draft of HTML5
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by noibl 16y ago
Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but you can have a box model that includes padding and border in the width using CSS3: box-sizing: border-box with -ms- (IE8), -moz- and -webkit- prefixes. http://www.quirksmode.org/css/
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by noibl 16y ago
Even the way he describes his site design in comparison to others' sounds like he sees himself as the Apple of punditry: 'I don’t care what’s out of place. I care about what’s best.' 'My goal is for not a single wasted word to appear anywhe

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