What this sorry story really shows is that closed standards and proprietary formats are the enemy of an Open Web.
Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Impasse on HTML 5 video
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The only reason I can think of for using pixel-based text sizes is a perception that it’s less work. That’s a very short-term view, as the loss in flexibility and robustness is so damaging that you’re creating much more work than putting the effort in to do a good job in the first place.
The Fallacy of Page Zooming — All in the head
It is truly mystifying how an industry which so thrives on transporting people into the fantastic, spends so little on the oldest traditions in the portfolio of the fantastic.
Ga-Fi at Binary Bonsai
That a new information technology could be improvised for this purpose so swiftly is a sign of the times. It reveals in Iran what the Obama campaign revealed in the United States. You cannot stop people any longer. You cannot control them any longer. They can bypass your established media; they can broadcast to one another; they can organize as never before.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
If you have two interfaces that both address user needs, go with the simpler one.
Flow Interactive :: The Think blog. » Three blades to Occam’s Razor
It is not science that is arrogant: science can be defined as ‘humility before the facts’ - it is those who refuse to submit to testing and make unsubstantiated claims that are arrogant. Arrogant and unjust.
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