Yes, that makes it seem like they're going out of their way to avoid using the phrase "standards compliant". People familiar with IE's history of compliance should take this with a grain of salt. Maybe redmond is slowly starting to realize that the web isn't about their browser, it's about standards. Or it's just another case of their usual corporate verbosity.
Agreed. HTML5 is full of crazy stuff, and few realize yet because video, canvas, and the other eye candy has been getting all the attention. Tag soup by default... I'd rather not go back to 1996. The return of some presentational tags (b, i, but not u) now with snazzy new presentational definitions (b really means bold, but we'll throw in big semantic-sounding words to appease the non-visual crowd).
Good thing Hixie's l tag (for line of text, to kill all the natural text flow in block elements) never went anywhere. Did the ping attribute ever get accepted? I sure would like links I click echoed to Google/Facebook/spammers/etc so they can know that much more about my browsing habits. Not.
Canada made it illegal to use BPA in baby bottles, and I think Europe has also.
If you look at the bottom of any plastic bottle or container (usually soft plastic) and the molded-in recycling symbol has the number 2 in it, that plastic has BPA.
He should go over to Pixar and ask the artists, modelers and animators there how they would enjoy having an iPad as a workstation. If he fires everyone that laughs at him, no creative talent will remain there.
Kids today don't have no desire for accomplishment. They don't want to make anything, or do anything, they just want to have stuff. Stuff which requires only a minimum of effort.
First we get Chris Wilson as the chair of the HTML working group, and now Jeff Jaffe as W3C CEO. Tim Berners-Lee is now going to focus on HTML5? He could have focused on XHTML2 and we'd have ended up with a better standard.
How many not-necessarily-desirable people are going to infiltrate the W3C before it becomes completely useless?
One more reason why W3C needs to be absorbed into a body that can stick to its mission.
I agree that Hickson is more of a bane than a boon, but he's not trying to kill all of standards based design, he's just trying to kill the best parts of it. Developers do want XML compliance. If they would just drop the HTML5 tag soup and enforce XHTML5, I would have much less against this mess.
That, and I still believe Chris Wilson is Microsoft's trojan horse.
A person with flawed ethical standards tends to do unethical things.
They also tend to gather people around them who have similar ethics. For everything he has done, who knows what his employees have done, either independently or at his request.
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Your equation is missing a critical element: map known ad hostnames to your hosts file and map them to 0.0.0.0. DNS gets short circuited within localhost and immediately returns nothing. Much less work for Firefox and the aforementioned plugins.
I have ~11,000 of these in my hosts file. I don't see ads. If some new ones sneak through, I add that host. Google seems to be tricky with their analytics stuff (Urchin), have to keep an eye on it.
The company who is nearly single handedly the reason why there is an anti-virus industry wants a tax to pay for malware removal? F#$% off.
We should fine MS $1000 for every infection on systems running their software. IE and Outlook exploits could probably pay off the US national debt in 10 years.
The trend of companies/sites dropping IE6 support seems to be gaining momentum. From various Norwegian sites to Google/YouTube.
A few years ago, the feasibility threshold for supporting FireFox (nee standards) seemed to be about 10%; is the reverse true for dropping IE6? Every outdated browser before it seemed to go away much more quietly. When should the FOSS community help to pull this trigger?
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Yes, that makes it seem like they're going out of their way to avoid using the phrase "standards compliant". People familiar with IE's history of compliance should take this with a grain of salt. Maybe redmond is slowly starting to realize that the web isn't about their browser, it's about standards. Or it's just another case of their usual corporate verbosity.
Agreed. HTML5 is full of crazy stuff, and few realize yet because video, canvas, and the other eye candy has been getting all the attention. Tag soup by default... I'd rather not go back to 1996. The return of some presentational tags (b, i, but not u) now with snazzy new presentational definitions (b really means bold, but we'll throw in big semantic-sounding words to appease the non-visual crowd).
Good thing Hixie's l tag (for line of text, to kill all the natural text flow in block elements) never went anywhere. Did the ping attribute ever get accepted? I sure would like links I click echoed to Google/Facebook/spammers/etc so they can know that much more about my browsing habits. Not.
Mostly due to the USD losing 66.6667% of its current value by the time any sizable western-based mining operations can begin.
I read somewhere that China swooped in and got at least ten mines operational during the 90's, and some of them may still be running.
Canada made it illegal to use BPA in baby bottles, and I think Europe has also.
If you look at the bottom of any plastic bottle or container (usually soft plastic) and the molded-in recycling symbol has the number 2 in it, that plastic has BPA.
Then I suppose it's time for CmdrTaco to make a new Borg icon of Steve Jobs, with Commander Data's yellow-ish skin tone.
Within the Transportation Security Administration, the phrase "open source" refers to publicly available versions of various types of documents.
Jobs told Ballmer he'd get seven minutes, but really it'll only be 6.1.
...which disease you have.
He should go over to Pixar and ask the artists, modelers and animators there how they would enjoy having an iPad as a workstation. If he fires everyone that laughs at him, no creative talent will remain there.
Kids today don't have no desire for accomplishment. They don't want to make anything, or do anything, they just want to have stuff. Stuff which requires only a minimum of effort.
Since when is Ted Stevens designing weapons systems for the Navy?
Children aren't taught critical thinking because they might grow up to be... critical thinkers.
Unthinking, uncritical people are easier to control and/or coerce to your will.
This was my first thought also. Why bother keeping the analog hole closed on video that the user owns? HDMI is no person's friend.
First we get Chris Wilson as the chair of the HTML working group, and now Jeff Jaffe as W3C CEO. Tim Berners-Lee is now going to focus on HTML5? He could have focused on XHTML2 and we'd have ended up with a better standard.
How many not-necessarily-desirable people are going to infiltrate the W3C before it becomes completely useless?
One more reason why W3C needs to be absorbed into a body that can stick to its mission.
Exactly, and one malicious vendor's inferior product is not a valid reason to abandon XHTML.
Except XHTML2 is dead, which is a sad thing. It was the better spec, IMO.
I agree that Hickson is more of a bane than a boon, but he's not trying to kill all of standards based design, he's just trying to kill the best parts of it. Developers do want XML compliance. If they would just drop the HTML5 tag soup and enforce XHTML5, I would have much less against this mess.
That, and I still believe Chris Wilson is Microsoft's trojan horse.
They also tend to gather people around them who have similar ethics. For everything he has done, who knows what his employees have done, either independently or at his request.
Your equation is missing a critical element: map known ad hostnames to your hosts file and map them to 0.0.0.0. DNS gets short circuited within localhost and immediately returns nothing. Much less work for Firefox and the aforementioned plugins.
I have ~11,000 of these in my hosts file. I don't see ads. If some new ones sneak through, I add that host. Google seems to be tricky with their analytics stuff (Urchin), have to keep an eye on it.
This is yet another reason why MS' idea of a tax to deal with malware tax is stupid.
The company who is nearly single handedly the reason why there is an anti-virus industry wants a tax to pay for malware removal? F#$% off.
We should fine MS $1000 for every infection on systems running their software. IE and Outlook exploits could probably pay off the US national debt in 10 years.
Material components: golf club. This spell was first created by Daniel Tosh.
The trend of companies/sites dropping IE6 support seems to be gaining momentum. From various Norwegian sites to Google/YouTube.
A few years ago, the feasibility threshold for supporting FireFox (nee standards) seemed to be about 10%; is the reverse true for dropping IE6? Every outdated browser before it seemed to go away much more quietly. When should the FOSS community help to pull this trigger?
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Why PayPal needs to be regulated as a bank, and why I refuse to use it.