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It’s like he missed the headline…

Normally quirksblog is pretty useful reading, but this time it’s like he missed the headline. He opines that Dart will fail miserably because “…(it) will have to be accepted by all other browser vendors.” Perhaps he missed the bit about how Dart can be compiled to JavaScript code for browsers that don’t (and never will) support it natively.

Do I think Dart is a good thing? Probably not, haven’t looked closely enough yet, and I quite like JavaScript. But that’s not really the point. The point is that to call it doomed because it requires vendor buy-in is to mis-read the press release.

Irony

I saw this story on TechCrunch Europe about how Spotify now requires you to have a Facebook account in order to sign up for their service (asinine move). I wanted to chime in on what a stoopid idea that is from the user’s point of view, so I typed in a comment and clicked Reply, only to get a pop-up asking me to sign in…to my Facebook account. (Turns out TechCrunch Europe uses the Facebook Social plug-in for comments on their stories.) Pot? Pot? Where are you Pot?!

I don’t normally go for schadenfreude, but this is a bit funny, surely…
(What with Host-Tracker being an uptime monitoring and outage notification service…)
Update: They’re back but only intermittently, over two hours after I first noticed the outage (no idea how long it was). Poor folks, I feel for them, never fun when this happens.

I don’t normally go for schadenfreude, but this is a bit funny, surely…

(What with Host-Tracker being an uptime monitoring and outage notification service…)

Update: They’re back but only intermittently, over two hours after I first noticed the outage (no idea how long it was). Poor folks, I feel for them, never fun when this happens.

Forget the CSS and (tiny bit of) JavaScript…

…I just like the picture.

Sep 8

GAE Price Changes - Quotes of the Week

I should have known buying into a proprietary system was a bad idea.  It always is.

— Patrick Van Oosterwijck

It’s not only money, its faith, too.

— Will Xu

Sep 7

Interesting take on Scala vs. Java…

if perhaps a bit elitist. If he changed everywhere he talked about people having the innate ability and motivation to code well to talking about people who think mathematically rather than procedurally, I think the message would be more successful.

Sep 7

Cookies

Michal Zalewski has an interesting article, if perhaps almost a rant, on HTTP cookies and some of the issues around them…well worth reading if you rely on cookies on your sites (and who doesn’t?).

Sep 5

A one-molecule electric motor

Yes, really.

Cross-post: Potentially Good News on Software Patents

Very interesting article on saving webOS from QuirksBlog…