Friday Links XVII

9 June 2007

Movable Type 4.0 Beta Launches, Platform To Be Open Sourced – I’m very impressed with the direction Moveable Type is taking; it looks like they could well be a credible competitor to WordPress et al again.

First look: Firefox 3 alpha 5 – I’m not massively impressed with anything I’m seeing here – where’s the much needed interface overhaul? Where are the actually innovative features?

Kiss Boring Interfaces Goodbye With Apple’s New Animated OS – I think one of the major new advances we’re going to see on Monday in 10.5 is a fully animated interface, like what we see in the iPhone UI.

YouTube Hosts First Feature Length Film – and so it starts. This + TV shows + AppleTV = the end of TV as we know it. Sorry Joost.

E-mail is not a platform for design – I completely, wholeheartedly disagree with this. If we had thought the same way about web pages, what would have happened? And are you really trying to say that emails wouldn’t benefit from more structure, hierarchy and semantics like titles, blockquotes and the like?

WCAG Samurai Errata published – definitely worth a read, especially if you work with outside contractors and need some backup when trying to get them to use semantic HTML.

GMail down for me – and this is the problem with using a free web service – you get what you pay for regarding uptime. Don’t base your business on it.

Breaking The Trinity – it’s hard to get a true reading on these Xbox 360 failures, as people on the internet always exaggerate things and people without problems don’t make much noise, but I think they may be having serious problems.

WWDC 2007 keynote bingo – fun for all the family!

Thinking About Syncing About My iPhone – it would be really, really great if this is how it worked with the iPhone.

From: Articles

9 June 2007