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CNN article on recent rulings against Grokster by the recording industry giants. While I agree with Mauriat’s assessment that the recording industries are taking their existence for granted (the Pony Express probably did too), to me the big news is that the courts now equate doing nothing to prevent copyright infringement with actively promoting copyright infringement based on how a company markets their product or if they could easily prevent copyright infringement. Click To Read More...

Wow, lots of hullabaloo regarding Microsoft’s recent announcements that they will have deep and broad support for RSS in the next release of Windows (Longhorn) and Internet Explorer 7. My take is that RSS is a good means of communicating a large variety of content to users and Microsoft is right: We have only scratched the surface of syndication as a technology and it is changing the way people use the web, even from a couple years ago. Not that this is any major revelation. Lots of people feel that way, Microsoft is just the first company to blow all this hot air that they are “betting all their chips” on this technology. Click To Read More...

After seeing this on the Scobleizer I decided to do it myself just out of curiosity. On the right there should be a blogmap of the general location where I’m located (you may have to scroll down a bit). Click on Bloggers Nearby if to see who else is around my neck of the woods. I retrieved my general lat/long from this site because I couldn’t figure out a quick way to do it in Google Maps or Mapquest…

The IEBlog posted an item today telling web developers that rounded corners would not be implemented in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 and then linked to a 3-month-old article that would teach us all how to do rounded corners in IE 5/6 today. Um, what? Did I miss something? Is it still 2002? Click To Read More...

Spurred on by Rob reporting Firefox 1.1 Alpha test results on the SVG test suite, I decided to do the same for Opera 8. Opera only claims to support SVG Tiny, so my tests were restricted to the SVG Tiny suite. I ended up being pleasantly surprised. Click To Read More...

The problem I’ve encountered so far when deploying SVG content is that, of the various major configurations of SVG-enabled browsers out there, the most popular configuration (Internet Explorer + Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0) only seems to work nicely with the <embed> tag, but all other implementations (Opera and Mozilla Firefox) work nicely (and sometimes ONLY) with the <object> tag and NONE currently work at all with the <img> tag. What a hairy mess! Let’s come up with a simple solution… Click To Read More...

This weekend’s trip from Chicago to Windsor, Canada was accompanied with the usual brand of pure commuting hell. Click To Read More...