The HTML 5 working group is split between supporters of Ogg Theora and H.264. Their inability to find a compromise that is acceptable to all stakeholders has compelled HTML 5 spec editor Ian Hickson to “admit defeat” and give up on the effort to define specific codecs and media formats in the standard itself. This is problematic because the lack of uniform codec availability will make it impossible for content creators to publish their videos in a single format that will be viewable through the HTML 5 video element in all browsers.
Now the makers of the Firefox Web browser plan to adopt a strategy to help block the attacks. The technology, called Content Security Policy CSP, will let a website's owner specify what Internet domains are allowed to host the scripts that run on its pages.
With Opera 10, we are introducing a new technology called Opera Unite, radically extending what you are able to do online. Opera Unite harnesses the power of today’s fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer at a time. Read about how Opera Unite is going to change the way we interact on the Web on labs.opera.com.
In a new craze sweeping the world, iPhone and iPod Touch users are producing extraordinary ‘paintings’ on their Apple devices. All the images were created using an application called Brushes and ‘painted’ freehand using fingers and thumbs
Click Show options in the blue bar (located at the top of the search results page) to see the available filters and views you can apply to your search results. Click Hide options to remove the options panel from view.
If you forget what options are applied to your results, look at the list of links in the blue bar.
To go back to standard unfiltered Google results, click Reset options at the bottom of the panel.
This episode is solely a recording of Kyle Simpson’s discussion of SWFObject – how it works, recent changes, common problems people have using it, and more.
Welcome to the Zend Framework 1.8 Release!
RELEASE INFORMATION
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Zend Framework 1.8 Release (revision 15226).
Released on April 30, 2009
NEW FEATURES
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* Zend_Tool, contributed by Ralph Schindler
* Zend_Application, contributed by Ben Scholzen and Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend_Loader_Autoloader and Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource,
contributed by Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend_Navigation, contributed by Robin Skoglund
* Zend_CodeGenerator, by Ralph Schindler
* Zend_Reflection, Ralph Schindler and Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend Server backend for Zend_Cache, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2, contributed by Jon Whitcraft
* Zend_Service_Amazon_S3, Justin Plock and Stas Malyshev
* Zend_Filter_Encrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Filter_Decrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Filter_LocalizedToNormalized and _NormalizedToLocalized,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Support for file upload progress support in Zend_File_Transfer,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Translation-aware routes, contributed by Ben Scholzen
* Zend_Json expression support, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei and
Oscar Reales
* Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei
* SOAP input and output header support, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for keyword field search using query strings,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for searching across multiple indexes in Zend_Search_Lucene,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Significant improvements for Zend_Search_Lucene search result match
highlighting capabilities, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for page scaling, shifting and skewing in Zend_Pdf,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Zend_Tag_Cloud, contributed by Ben Scholzen
* Locale support in Zend_Validate_Int and Zend_Validate_Float,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Phonecode support in Zend_Locale, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists and _RecordNotExists, contributed by
Ryan Mauger
* Zend_Validate_Iban, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_File_WordCount, contributed by Thomas Weidner
A detailed list of all features and bug fixes in this release may be found at:
http://framework.zend.com/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=11002
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Zend Framework requires PHP 5.2.4 or later. Please see our reference
guide for more detailed system requirements:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/requirements.html
INSTALLATION
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Please see INSTALL.txt.
QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK
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Online documentation can be found at http://framework.zend.com/manual.
Questions that are not addressed in the manual should be directed to the
appropriate mailing list:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/Mailing+Lists
If you find code in this release behaving in an unexpected manner or
contrary to its documented behavior, please create an issue in the Zend
Framework issue tracker at:
http://framework.zend.com/issues
If you would like to be notified of new releases, you can subscribe to
the fw-announce mailing list by sending a blank message to
fw-announce-subscribe@lists.zend.com.
LICENSE
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The files in this archive are released under the Zend Framework license.
You can find a copy of this license in LICENSE.txt.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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The Zend Framework team would like to thank all the contributors to the Zend
Framework project, our corporate sponsor, and you, the Zend Framework user.
Please visit us sometime soon at http://framework.zend.com.
This one was brought to my attention by Jonathan Moore of New Ezra. A great run through of the psychology behind a great user experience.
To be good user experience folks, we need to crack open some psych 101 textbooks, learn what motivates people and then bake these ideas into our designs.
Polaris is a free Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics (Google's statistics tracking tool for web publishers) to your desktop with an attractive look and feel.
O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.
