New DOCTYPE sniffing in upcoming Mozilla releases – I suppose it makes sense to accomodate Transitional sites by rendering image line-heights a la quirks mode, but you have to wonder why this decision didn’t get made for 1.0. Seems a bit strange.
Category: Legacy
That NY Times diet article hit /. yesterday. More disucssion at: boingboing, mefi, plastic
The Internet Debacle -An Alternative View – this article by Janis Ian, makes a compelling argument. I know from personal experience that discovering music via file-sharing has directly led to me purchasing albums (and sometimes, complete catalogues) of dozens of artists that I otherwise would have never heard of.
Oh yeah, the compulsory discussion at /.
From the beginning of June, some interesting conversation on Omniweb and Gecko from Hyatt and Hixie. I certainly hope Omniweb gets better. It’s renderer is the shittiest since ns4 and it pisses me off to no end when I see people touting OmniWeb as some great thing. It’s rare these days for a piece of software to get such a violent reaction from me.
Ha’aretz – A near-death experience
A young female Palestinian terrorist sits in a detention room opposite the Israeli defense minister and cries. “What will happen to me now?” she asks him. “What will become of me? What will my future be? Am I going to rot in prison for 20 years for something I didn’t do?” Benjamin Ben-Eliezer’s
expression reveals nothing.
More humor: The Rotten Dot Com Big Book of Sign Language
Quotes from the Movie JAWS in Which “Shark” is Replaced By “Jimmy Page.”
You see a barracuda, everyone says, ‘Huh? What?’ You yell ‘Jimmy Page,’ we’ve got a panic on our hands on the 4th of July.
These phenomenal portraits were taken at last year’s OSCON. They are of course being served on Open Source software, with an XML/Perl gallery package called Spider Eyeballs.
Forwarding Address: OS X – a blog of experiences of people moving onto os x.
Mac OS X: The Search for OS Canaan is a similar blog. One of the writers Damon Wright is in the Apple ad campaign.