Selling a house is always so much work. We’ve been painting window sills and ceilings, cleaning windows and putting way more effort into our lawn than usual.
It’s a shame I can’t just make a backup of the house every couple of years and then restore it.
It should be interesting to see if the Mozilla Foundation can push out a cairo-based Gecko 2.0 engine with SVG and foreignObject support before Microsoft gets XAML out the door with Longhorn. Having SVG+foreignObject available in every browser would open up a lot of new potential for web development without flash.
From what I’ve read, Robert O’Callahan at X-Tech demoed SVG rotating a Cairo-rendered Google homepage. Amazingly, you can still interact with rotated page as you would a normal page. This looks like some of the stuff that has been coming out of the XAML camp over the last little while.
I tried out the Google Web Accelerator today - it’s an interesting product that likely is helping Google as much as those that install it. I’ve seen a number of people discussing how Google can use it to silently spider the web. Interestingly, a packet trace discovers that data flows upward from the user’s computer to Google’s servers - likely sending the data back to Google’s cache.
I wonder if this is similar to the “rsync HTTP cache” idea that was floated a while back. It used a form of delta compression - possibly what this Google Accelerator product does.