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"On this page I compare 19 WebKits in order to prove that there is no “WebKit on Mobile” and to figure out which one is the best. My hope is that eventually I’m going to gain some insight in the “family tree” of all WebKits."

"Ascender Corporation, Carter & Cone and The Font Bureau, Inc. announced today that they are working on a project in conjunction with Microsoft to extend the Georgia and Verdana typeface families. This project began more than a year ago, and the first of the new typefaces are expected during the first quarter of 2010."

Useful, if basic, how-to for building web apps for the iPhone, from a forthcoming O'Reilly book. There's a good section on LocalStorage and SessionStorage.

Do I need an Anything Bucket? Probably. But I can't quite convince myself I have time to even think about rethinking my pitiful filing system right now.

A full list of all current HTML5 elements. Guaranteed to be completely up-to-date even as the spec is changing, because it's part of the spec document which comes straight from the WHATWG HTML5 repository (http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps/source)

"Based on nearly eighty hours of conversations with fifteen all-time great programmers and computer scientists, the Q&A interviews in Coders at Work provide a multifaceted view into how great programmers learn to program, how they practice their craft, and what they think about the future of programming."

Nice slideshow on the basics of interface design.

Beautiful infographic showing 50 years of space exploration

Nice graphical view of web browser timelines and genealogy

Another great post, this one on the load/unload event handlers, and how they can prevent pages from going into WebKit's Page Cache.

"The unload event is comparatively mysterious. Whenever the user leaves a page it is “unloaded” and scripts can do some final cleanup.

The mysterious part is that “leaving the page” can mean one of a few things:

1. The user closes the browser tab or window, resulting in the destruction of the visible page.
2. The browser navigates from the old page to a new page, resulting in the destruction of the old visible page.

The Page Cache makes this even more interesting by adding a new navigation possibility:

3. The browser navigates from the old page to a new page, but the old visible page is suspended, hidden, and placed in the Page Cache."

An excellent post on the WebKit Page Cache.

"Note that the Page Cache is an end user feature that makes navigating the web much smoother. It is not a “cache” in the “HTTP sense“. It is not a “cache” in the “disk cache” sense where raw resources are stored on the local disk. And it’s not a “cache” in the traditional “memory cache” sense where WebKit keeps decoded resources around in memory to be shared between multiple web pages.

So… what *exactly* is it?

Quite simply, the Page Cache makes it so when you leave a page we “pause” it and when you come back we press “play.”"

An interesting overview of the Telegraph's technology-driven innovation, and 'Project Victoria'.

"Small, nimble, under the radar, with permission to fail: Will Lewis took a team of just seven, each with different skills and experience, out of Canary Wharf to Victoria and set up a separate unit to experiment with new ways of working. For five months they worked with just a dozen journalists to create the first 4 pages of the newspaper and a dummy website, each and every day. And just about every day they deliberately trialled different ways to deliver it: from different seating arrangements to different processes and responsibilities."

"Like so much Pakistani contemporary art, Ms. Khan’s work is influenced by the country’s often toxic mix of religion and politics. She had long worked on themes of the female body and attire, and was inspired to begin making female armor, she said, when militant Islamic women dressed in black burqas and defiantly wielding long sticks were shown on television as the defenders of a radical mosque, known as Lal Masjid, in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad."

A great example of progressive enhancement, with CSS3 applied liberally to add appealing visual polish to a number of elements. Look out for particularly good use of transparency, rounded corners and rotation.

"I wanted to see how much newspaper content was what Alex Jones calls the iron core of news — reporters going after facts — and how much was “other stuff” — opinion columns, sports, astrology, weather, comics, everything that was neither a hard news story or an ad."

To download and compile the latest Git version, 1.6.2

"You have a pile of Python code. You think, “this could be useful to someone else.” You want to release it as an open-source project. You’ve come to the right place."