Wow, I didn’t see this coming. Zeldman reports that the W3C is not going to renew the XHTML 2 working group’s charter this year. That effectively kills XHTML 2 in favor of devoting the resources to the HTML 5 working group.
This makes sense in that HTML 5 is already gaining traction, and we’ve seen lots of talk in the web community about switching back to HTML, but I never expected to see development halted like this.
“W3C hopes to accelerate the progress of HTML 5 and clarify W3C’s position regarding the future of HTML.”
Nice to know that the W3C is clearly picking a side and throwing their support behind one product, though.
When we started redesigning the Pop Art blog, one of the chief requirements was to integrate everyone’s Twitter feeds into the site. In addition to the Pop Art Twitter feed in the sidebar, we wanted to add individual twitter feeds on the profile pages. The problem is that the javascript code that Twitter provides can only be called once in a single page, or it gets confused.
Since we were switching to Wordpress, I checked out a bunch of Twitter plugins, but ultimately found them all to be unreliable or just missing features. In the end, I hacked together one of my own, based heavily on code by Ryan Barr. His PHP script was very nearly perfect, but I ran into three problems.
This movie was pure insanity. It’s two and a half unrelenting hours of explosions, robots and boobs. I would say it’s equally divided between moments of sheer brilliance, and WTF moments. If you’ve seen the first movie, then you have a good idea of what to expect, but crank it up a notch. This movie makes everything more extreme, both the good and the bad. When I walked out, at first, I wasn’t sure if I really liked it. Overall, I’ve decided I enjoyed it, but wow. Talk about over-the-top.
For another perspective, here’s an excerpt from a review on io9:
Michael Bay understands that summer movies are about two things: male anxiety, and pure id. That’s why he casts Shia LaBoeuf, that supreme avatar of pure male inadequacy, in the lead role. …LaBoeuf, who’s actually a fine actor, is the stand-in for the male viewers’ greatest fears about themselves. No matter how great a loser they might be, they can’t be as losery a loser as Sam Witwicky. And yet, Sam has awesome giant robots stomping around telling him he’s the most important awesome person ever. And he has the hottest girlfriend in the universe, Megan Fox, for whom banality is a huge aphrodisiac.
– io9, “Micheal Bay Finally Made an Art Movie“
“I suppose we could say that the two games are equally fun, and that there’s room in this world for both, but FUCK THAT. History needs to know which is best, so I’m going to award victory who whichever game’s developer sends me the best picture of the other game’s main character wearing a woman’s bra.”
– Zero Punctuation, comparing Infamous and Prototype
“I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks… you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to work with someone who makes them feel beat down all the time, or someone who they simply can’t understand, or someone whose reaction to every issue is to start wailing about the end of the world.”
– Catherine Powell (via 37signals)
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