Many wonder why Microsoft doesn't offer nightly builds—or at least something fairly frequent—of Internet Explorers. Ars talks to Microsoft's general manager for Internet Explorer, who says the IE9 development cycle will look much the same as previous versions. We don't think that's a great idea.
- Ryan Parman
Google plans to drag Internet Explorer into the world of modern Web browsing with a new open source plugin that will inject Chrome's renderer and JavaScript engine into Microsoft's browser.
- Ryan Parman
My personal favorite is #5: "Can't decide? Make a preference." I say, make a decision. You may be wrong, and you may have to change it, but that's okay.
- Ryan Parman
"But there's still no hardware support. It doesn't make sense for Apple without it (iPods, iPhones, etc.). Even with that, Google won't support Theora in YouTube because it's still not as efficient as H.264."
- Ryan Parman
"False. The spec doesn't get finalized until multiple vendors support it. That's how the W3C has always worked. That way, the spec stays relevant and in-tune with reality."
- Ryan Parman
A technique that uses a combination of HTML5 <video>, but falls back to Flash, QuickTime, and Windows Media for embedding video without JavaScript.
- Ryan Parman
Fever reads your feeds and picks out the most frequently talked about links from a customizable time period. Unlike traditional aggregators, Fever works better the more feeds you follow.
- Ryan Parman