Canon 5D Mark II Initial Thoughts - James Duncan Davidson

Canon 5D Mark II Initial Thoughts - James Duncan Davidson: "Canon has finally launched the successor to the EOS 5D. The Canon EOS 5D Mark II brings a 21 megapixel sensor to the game that provides higher ISO performance than its predecessor, a new review screen, live view, and a new 1080p HD movie mode. On paper, there’s much to like about this new camera. But, there are a couple of major points that make this release bittersweet, at least for me."

Clickjacking: new cross-browser exploit

Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for new cross-browser exploit: "Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms — Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash."

Vincent Laforet's high quality video on a budget

Something Very Interesting is coming…both to this blog and to our industry: "I had it in my hands for less than 72 hours before I had to send it back - but the time I did have with a prototype of the Canon EOS 5D MKII will possibly change the path of my career as well as the photography industry to some degree."

See the video from the new camera and a behind the scenes video.

John Resig - BBC Removing Microformat Support

John Resig - BBC Removing Microformat Support

After performing a number of usability studies (both on average users and users with screen readers) the BBC found that using the Microformat convention of ... to denote items like dates negatively impacted usability. This is a huge blow to the Microformats community. While this concern has been discussed for a while this is the first instance of a major corporation reneging on their previous Microformat commitment.

As an alternative the BBC seems to be examining RDFa - one of the leading "competitors" in the "embed machine-readable data in (X)HTML markup" space. Examining the basic RDFa-in-XHTML primer it's obvious that RDFa still has a long ways to go before any sort of practical adoption by developers and designers. Riddled with advanced, or just plain confusing, terminology (XML namespaces, Dublin Core, semantic web, and not to mention the addition of many new attributes - like typeof, about, and property) it appears to be solidly entrenched in the ways that Microformats were able to shake themselves free of, allowing them to achieve widespread adoption.

It's pretty obvious that the Microformats community is going to have to step up and prevent any sort of attrition that will occur in this situation.

Google search finds seafaring solution - Times Online

Google search finds seafaring solution - Times Online: "Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”.

The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore."

This is reminiscent of Radio Goodies.

How the 'Net works: an introduction to peering and transit

Page 1: "The story of how the Internet is structured economically is not so much a story about net neutrality, but rather it's a story about how ISPs actually do use AT&T's pipes for free, and about why AT&T actually wants them to do so. These inter-ISP sharing arrangements are known as 'peering' or 'transit,' and they are the two mechanisms that underlie the interconnection of networks that form the Internet."

Server Name Indication - Support & Test Site Reference

Server Name Indication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

TLS Extension - Server Name Indicator (SNI)

Another Caffeinated Day: "TLS Upgrade is better known as RFC 2817. Indeed, it is not widely supported by browsers. Firefox 2 and IE 7 do not. Firefox 3 will. IE 7 never. Not sure about Safari. But it seems that RFC 3546 has more adherents. FF2, IE7 already support RFC 3546 (Safari again absent), which specifies a Server-Name-Indicator (SNI), not unlike the Host header today in HTTP/1.1."

Google raising newspaper morgues from the dead

Google raising newspaper morgues from the dead | News - Digital Media - CNET News: "Google is making searchable, digital copies of old newspapers available online through partnerships with their publishers, the company said Monday.

Under the ad-supported effort, Google will digitize millions of pages of news archives, including photos, articles, headlines, and advertisements, Google said."

jQuery history/remote - solution for hijaxing links

jQuery history/remote - solution for hijaxing links: "Implement Ajax driven links in a completely unobtrusive and accessible manner (also known as Hijax) with support for the browser's back/forward navigation buttons and bookmarking. Enhance comparable DHTML driven links as well."

reallysimplehistory - Google Code

reallysimplehistory - Google Code: "Really Simple History is a lightweight JavaScript library for the management of bookmarking and browser history in Ajax/DHTML applications. RSH serializes application data in an internal JavaScript cache so that bookmarks and the back button can be used to return your application to an earlier state.

Originally developed by Brad Neuberg in 2005, RSH has won a large user base for its simplicity, ease of use and lack of dependency on any specific Ajax framework. It's written in plain old JavaScript and can be included on any site according to the terms of its BSD license."

Inside Chrome: The Google Browser

The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web: "It's incredible that something as potentially game-changing as a Google browser has stayed under wraps for two years."

Chrome is open source, uses WebKit, faster Javascript, multiprocess architecture and application platform.