David Emery OnlineEmbed your data- in HTML 5
This looks very useful – while you can sort of do this already in xhtml using custom namespaces that’s a bit complicated; this looks far easier. Also, it could also be used nicely for microformats and the like (and get rid of that darn abbr pattern).
Visit ➔Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business
I think the concept of streaming and embedable music (that is paid for by either direct advertising or a royalty structure) is definitely the future of music on the web. However, it’s worth noting that I think this is a companion to traditional digital retailers, not a replacement.
Visit ➔Sonific Heading To The Deadpool: Record Labels Blamed
Note to startups: don’t base your entire business model on other peoples content that you don’t have the rights to use.
Visit ➔No CSS Reset
I completely agree – I don’t ever use a CSS reset style sheet. It seems like far too much hard work putting back in all the styling you’ve overridden, not mention that if you’re using a CMS you’re going to have to make sure that you’ve got everything that someone could enter (uls, dls, blockquotes etc) covered.
Visit ➔Grooveshark Launches Awesome Streaming Music Service
You know what? This is actually pretty good, and has one of the best flash-based interfaces I’ve seen in quite a while.
Visit ➔Examining Twinkle for the iPhone
Twinkle is yet another reason to jailbreak your iPhone. At its core it’s a Twitter client, and a very good one at that, but what makes it really interesting is that if you update using Twinkle it can optionally (and by default) save your location whilst you do so, using the iPhone location APIs. You can then see a list of twitters by, say, everyone within a 1 mile radius of you, which is pretty remarkable.
More proof we’re living in the future etc…
Visit ➔Introducing CSS Gradients
WebKit now supports CSS gradients, which is pretty awesome – you can now make fully Web 2.0 compliant designs with rounded corners, gradients and drop shadows fully in CSS in WebKit. If only everyone else (looks in Firefox and IE’s directions) would implement all these features as quickly as the WebKit folks are…
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