If they were to offer such a feature, I'm guessing they would also give carriers the option to disable it.

I tried a friend's Kindle Fire, and was a bit disappointed with the performance.. I don't know if it was just me, but the interface felt laggy and failed to register presses about 1/4 of the time. Amazon's launcher is garbage, and the rest of the hacks to the OS likely are too. I think performance will improve quite bit once someone gets an AOSP build of Android good and stable for it.

FTA - "All five of these elements are so large and unstable they can be made only in the lab, and they fall apart into other elements very quickly. Not much is known about these elements, since they aren't stable enough to do experiments on and are not found in nature."

Unfortunately, we do not live in some kind of web developer utopia where everyone diligently updates their web browser to take advantage of new and superior standards.

Both of these sites should be replaced with an OCCUPY CRAPPY OUTDATED WEB BROWSERS movement. Well in sentiment at least, I've never been very good at naming things.

Dunno about cloud servers, but my web servers are located at FortressITX in NJ. Looking forward to seeing how they handle the storm.

There has been some really interesting stuff going on for the Droid X (and Droid 2) lately.

With the development of 2nd-init, it's now possible to run stock android, CyanogenMod, and MIUI, totally MOTOBLUR-FREE

More information:
http://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-06-14/2nd-init._what_it_is_and_how_it_works
http://cvpcs.org/blog/2011-08-18/time_for_some_motorola_merging
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=1820
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=2222
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?t=531

It would be nice not to jump through all of these hoops, and maybe soon we won't have to. But for now, this is as good as it gets for your Droid X. I'm partial to MIUI with ADW Launcher, it's a very polished ROM.

IE9 does finally support border-radius, but I know it doesn't support text-shadow.

Here's a comparison between IE versions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(v=vs.85).aspx

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter how well new versions of IE support new standards. The masses won't be using it until they buy a new computer that already has the latest version pre-installed. Most of them are too terrified of breaking their computer to proceed with the upgrade they're prompted with through Windows Update.

I believe most mobile browsers work that way with the URL bar scrolling up off the screen.

In Android 3.0/3.1 the URL bar scrolls off the screen but the tabs remain.. I would definitely prefer to be able to instantly get an address bar by double-tapping the tab instead of having to scroll all the way back to the top of the page to access it.

I'm going to disagree. This is not great, at least for me.

The only thing a decision like this accomplishes is drawing out the time I have to keep supporting old versions. Old versions that even on the day they were released were behind in standards compliance in comparison to their competition.

What would be REALLY GREAT is if Microsoft would at least continue to provide basic updates to the rendering engine for IE8 and IE9 after IE10 is released. Even if they're just fixing and providing support for popular CSS properties.

Why does Microsoft hate web developers/designers? What did we do to deserve this kind of punishment?

Yeah, it sure is awful trying to hook up blu-ray players, video game consoles, and these new-fangled internet devices to my 1982 Zenith television.

Luckily, Amazon still sells those 75-to-300 ohm adapters with the forks on the end that you have to screw down.

I'm not sure what you mean by "table layouts"

The table tag is a tool, and its job is to display tabular data. Using it for anything else (design and layout of a page) is where the shoe-horning happens.

...probably also thinks it's extra cool that they get to be in a Starbucks ad.

It has to be sarcasm. When I was in college, all of the computers in the labs had Iomega Zip drives. They were fast and held a whopping 100mb. By the end of my first semester, everyone I knew was well acquainted with the Click of Death.

Lots of people don't use their computers for doing anything beyond posting on Facebook, tending their FarmVille crops, and watching cute cat video compilations on YouTube.

I can see how ChromeOS would be perfect for many many people.

Winter -> Spring is known as "mud season" here. After the 15 feet of snow melts, it leaves the ground pretty messy.