Slashdot on Browser innovation

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Slashdot comments on an article at Mozilla.org on the importance of Browser innovation, particularly the Gecko and Mozilla projects. The article has been written by Mitchell Baker and is titled, “The Big Picture”.

There are also some interesting comments over at Slashdot on the article, particularly related to web standards
http://www.mozilla.org/browser-innovation.html

The article comments that the Chimera browser will now be known as the Camino browser. A name change introduced from the 0.7 release. Camino and Safari are both open-source related browsers which are available on OS X.

The voice & aural properties in CSS2

In Archive by Fredy Ore

A comment by Paperhead in the Signal Vs. Noise blog mentioned a link to a W3School article commenting on CSS2 and the aural properties in stylesheets.

The link to the article reference page is here: www.w3schools.com/css/css_ref_aural.asp and the W3C Aural Stylesheet pages are here
www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/aural.html

Some of the properties of CSS2 allows the ability to control volume, pause, cue, spacial, speech rate, pitch, pronunciation and richness.

Materials used in Formula 1

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Only a few hours till the start of the Australian Melbourne Grand Prix, I was curious of some of the materials which make up the cars of a Formula 1 race. This website split up the materials in a very readable way. The article covers Carbon-Fibre, Petroleum-Air mixtures, Tyre compounds and recyclable car parts.
www.scitech.org.au/speed/techspecs.html

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Loading external data into Flash

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I revisit David Johnson’s tutorial article on loading external data into Flash. The article comments on a way to get around the security restrictions imposed by Macromedia, which disallows data (Variables and Movies) from being loaded from external domains.

David is one of the founding members of Australian INFront and his website, Bio-Mechanical.net is his personal outlet
www.bio-mechanical.net/v5/Article.asp?id=33

The CSIRO’s HAIL seminar

In Archive by Fredy Ore

There is an interesting lecture at Macquarie University from the CSIRO’s HAIL (which stands for HCI, Artificial Intelligence and Language) seminar series.

The upcoming seminars include, The culture of the interface: analysing the web site as textual and cultural practice, a talk by Dr Anne Cranny-Francis from the Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, and will be held on Tuesday 18 March 2003 at 11am.

Here is the link to the HAIL Seminars homepage
www.cmis.csiro.au/conferences-seminars/HAIL

Making the <embed> tag validate correctly

In Archive by Fredy Ore

I went in search today on ways of making the <embed> tag comply to the XHTML 1.0 spec. The <embed> tag is the tag which is commonly used in Flash content, for example it is used by IE to parse the SWF file to the browser. The SWF movie consequently doesn’t “stream” through the content but rather “passes” it.

The dilemma with this situation is that the <embed> tag isn’t correct spec syntax of XHTML and consequently renders all flash movies who use the tag non accessible.

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Michael Galkovsky – Toilets photo gallery

In Gallery, Photography by Fredy Ore

The Morning News comments on the photographic works of Michael Galkovsky. A photographer who likes to works in themes, prolonged themes. His current theme is “toilets” He he he.

This collection of photographs show a sequence of 17 public bathrooms photographed around Austin, Texas, USA during a one winters day. The photo’s are certainly worth checking out and interesting :)

www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/photo_toilets.shtml

Piracy raid on Australian Universities

In Archive by Fredy Ore

The Australian newspaper comments on the Federal police raids of Australia’s ISP’s for alledged pirated music files such as MP3s which value a total of $60 million.
The interesting nature of this article is that, the investigation has occurred when music labels such as Sony and EMI begin Federal legal action against some of Australia’s universities including the University of Sydney, the University of Tasmania and the University of Melbourne for alleged piracy.

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