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Coolsites.ie Finally Live By Michele Neylon on August 31, 2008 7:04 PM | No Comments I have an annoying habit of grabbing domain names on whim and then promptly forgetting why I bought them. Coolsites.ie was one of those domain names that I grabbed a few months ago, as I knew instinctively that I would find a good use for it, I just wasn't 100% sure what...

After i post about my complaints on this blog, i went to bed and when i woke up this morning, the speed i gained this morning is the normal speed i usually get. It seems that they have located the problem and get it fixed. But, it's weekend and not many people go to office, so probably it was one of the reason it is faster.

As part of the Open Web Advocacy work I’ve started with Dion and others at Google, one of my goals right now is to help increase awareness and support around doing 2-D/vector graphics on the open web.

Logo courtesy of the W3C Remember the furor that erupted on the web and the wmlprogramming Yahoo group over transcoders? Specifically, the ones that Vodafone UK and other carriers implemented with the goal of making non-mobile web pages more usable on mobile handsets?

I for one have been waiting to hear this news. One of the big 2 commercial screen readers will now support WAI-ARIA live regions. Let’s hope that this prompts GWMicro to add support in Window-Eyes. The JAWS version 10 public beta is scheduled for release during the week of August 24, 2008!

Last week I shared the WhereAreYou? application that used the Ajax APIs ClientLocation API to access your location via your IP address. At the same time, we announced support for the Gears Geolocation API that can calculate your address using a GPS device, WiFi info, cell tower ids, and IP address lookups.

Announcing xproc-dev@lists.w3.org, 24 Aug 2008 In W3C and XProc You're invited to join the xproc-dev mailing list, a public discussion forum for implementors and users of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language.… 

I just got finished reading an article over at Ajaxian (great blog) about The Ajax Head Pattern; Unobtrusive Rails App. And had a few comments of my own. While working at Kinetic, especially on our home brew stuff, I’ve made it a point to engineer our applications using what I call “The HTTP Pattern”.

. . . unless existing and new open source font projects gain momentum and critical mass.