4Chan on Jeopardy

(Source: 4Chan press page via 4Chan on Twitter)

Internet Explorer 9

(Finally I get to embed Silverlight videos in this blog)







Ok, so Microsoft announced that they're working on Internet Explorer 9, which they only started on 3 weeks ago so it's not very far yet, but already it's faster than Firefox 3.5 (still doesn't beat Chrome 3 in speed though). Best of all though, it already supports all CSS selectors and has support for border radius, and they plan to have this iteration pass the Acid 3 test which means faster javascript and SVG support.

Now all they have to do is support the CSS media queries, transitions, transforms and opacity, the audio and video tags (which they've talked about supporting) and Canvas.

This really made my day.

(Source: Ajaxian)

Google Chrome Frame

I've been waiting for something like this for ages (I'm not alone), and now Google provides it.
There's a lot of talk though, and people don't get the point.

I keep hearing "this is stupid, why would anyone want this, they should just install Chrome instead".

This isn't exactly for users, but more for developers, there are users who either don't know anything about web browsers (i.e. the ones who think that blue "e" means internet), people who can't because they're at work/school, or people who just don't want to because they're afraid to try anything new on a computer, etc...

Internet Explorer has been holding back the web for ages, and this is just a small work around for certain features such as the canvas tag, the audio and video tags, SVG support, faster javascript and faster rendering of websites altogether.

And with future updates to Chrome and WebKit coming such as the O3D plugin built in, Native Client plugin built in, WebGL, and the long overdue updates to Gears (camera support, microphone support, file system access, image manipulation, etc), etc... Chrome Frame will look more and more like an advanced, open standard and open source version of the Flash and Silverlight plugins.

They're not trying to push this as a substitute to using Chrome, they're just trying to keep Internet Explorer (especially IE6) from slowing down adoption of HTML5 and new web technologies.

Which is all apart of Googles plan, gain more supporters of the web as a platform by enabling it everywhere.

(BTW, I added Chrome Frame support to this site just for fun. ^_^)

No IE6

We don't support IE6 on this blog (because it's too much of a hassle to design for) and I hate it alot so to help the hundreds of anti-IE6 sites out there, I'll make a list of stop IE6 campaigns that I know of on the web.

IE6Update
Bring Down IE6
Hey IT
StopIE6
Stop Using Internet Explorer
End6

I'll update this as I go...

Wii getting better community features

"Nintendo has always had a vision on community... The issue is that we define community differently than our competitors... Our consumers do want a sense of community, and we're going to deliver that--but in a way that is unique to Nintendo."

-Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, in an interview with Forbes.com.

For a console like the Wii an update like this is long over due, but no less welcomed. (I could take a guess that this has something to do with channels and alot of optional features)

(Source)

Nerding out for a moment regarding OpenID

Because alot of people have to say something bad about Googles OpenID implementation.


http://oauthgoog.blogspot.com/2008/10/googles-openid-idp-is-now-live-for.html

(If you don't know what OpenID is go here.)