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Tim-Berners Lee clears the air: HTML5 will include 2D animation and video.

Tim-Berners Lee's views on the HTML Working Group's scope remove the roadblocks put up by Adobe.

Adobe objected to the HTML Canvas 2D API and other useful tags that have to do with 2D animation and video in HTML5. Adobe is against these specifications, stating they were out of the Group's scope. Adobe wants these work projects thrown out or suspended.

Ian Hickson, the author and maintainer of HTML5 specification, announced that the open source codec Ogg Theora is no longer a requirement for <video> and <audio> in HTML5. Ogg Theora was dropped from specification because not all vendors are willing to implement and ship the open source codec. The matter is left as undefined, as is the case for <img>, <embed>, and Web fonts. Each browser will support the video and audio codecs they prefer.

Is your website Web 2.0 yet?

Maybe it's time to Ajaxify your website.

The easy way is using Ajaxify, a jQuery plugin which features (among other cool things):

• Ajax GET and POST requests
• animations
• partial load from the output
• forms, history and bookmarking support

Build a complex Ajax website with one single line:
$('.ajaxify').ajaxify();


jQuery Address brings the deep linking functionality to jQuery.

The jQuery Address plugin provides an API for creating direct links to specific Ajax states and enables the Back and Forward buttons of the browser, one of the most common tasks for JavaScript developers.

jQuery Address is a direct port of the SWFAddress library, the most well-known library used by webmasters to provide deep linking to pages within their Flash or Ajax websites.

SSL certificates are important for establishing an encrypted connection between a client and a server. Only clients that accept a signed SSL certificate will be able to establish an encrypted connection with the server. Encrypted connections are used by webmasters to build secure websites, like e-commerce websites, where extra protection is necessary to prevent eavesdropping.

A SSL certificate is issued by a certification authority, or certificate authority (CA). There are a few types of certification authorities:

Cuil.com rips off Identi.ca's favicon.

In all aspects of today's life, image is the most crucial attribute for survival. We rely on visual cues from our environment to guide our actions. Familiar symbols get imprinted in our subconscious and become a important factor in decision making.

We get bombarded with more and more images everyday. New discoveries and technologies are creating even more ways for displaying images.

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The Acid3 Test, in development since April 2007, has been released today.
It features 100 tests that primarily focus on DOM and JavaScript.
Acid3 was written by Ian Hickson, with contributions made by browser vendors and other webmasters.

Link: http://acid3.acidtests.org

On 23 January 2008, ICANN unanimously votes to abandon the US$ 0.25 exemption during the five day grace period, thus killing the practice of domain tasting.

Link: http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-23jan08.htm