Rick Merritt, who wrote the lead article also posted an opinion piece in EE Times lambasting Wintel for their lackluster funding efforts in parallel programming. I thoroughly agree with this guy. To quote:
Wintel should not just tease multiple researchers with a $10 million grant awarded to one institution. They need to significantly up the ante and fund multiple efforts.
Ten million is a drop in the bucket of the R&D budgets at Intel and Microsoft. You have to wonder about who is piloting the ship in Redmond these days when the company can afford a $44 billion bid for Yahoo to try to bolster its position in Web search but only spends $10 million to attack a needed breakthrough to save its core Windows business.
Web developers need to take a cue from software developent and use HTML validation tools to check
the syntax of their work. Such tools can
also check for compatibility with different
browsers and different versions.
This is all the more
important because browsers are lenient in processing
HTML with incorrect syntax. This convention has lowered the bar for letting non-programming folks
write HTML, but has had the lousy side effect of
having inconsistent behavior for rendering HTML in different browsers be the norm and not the exception.
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Rick Merritt, who wrote the lead article also posted an opinion piece in EE Times lambasting Wintel for their lackluster funding efforts in parallel programming. I thoroughly agree with this guy. To quote:
Wintel should not just tease multiple researchers with a $10 million grant awarded to one institution. They need to significantly up the ante and fund multiple efforts. Ten million is a drop in the bucket of the R&D budgets at Intel and Microsoft. You have to wonder about who is piloting the ship in Redmond these days when the company can afford a $44 billion bid for Yahoo to try to bolster its position in Web search but only spends $10 million to attack a needed breakthrough to save its core Windows business.Communicator.
Has to include Stiffler's mom.
"My offer to you is this. Nothing."
Web developers need to take a cue from software developent and use HTML validation tools to check the syntax of their work. Such tools can also check for compatibility with different browsers and different versions.
This is all the more important because browsers are lenient in processing HTML with incorrect syntax. This convention has lowered the bar for letting non-programming folks write HTML, but has had the lousy side effect of having inconsistent behavior for rendering HTML in different browsers be the norm and not the exception.
Syntax checking. It's a good thing.