they add no value to the learning experience

of course they should, and mobile phones as well.

Seems like we have a lot of pot-calling-kettle-blacking going around in this thread. Nowhere in your article does it claim that the breach occurred inside Google's network. For all we know, the external workforce (DART, et al) that works for google outside their networks were victims of the IE6 exploit, had the malware infecting their computers, which had access to other systems in Google HQ. I think that might be unlikely, but still, there is not been any concrete explanation from any source. Seems just to be a lot of conjecture on both sides.

sorry, where in that article does it even mention IE6?

And it's also not surprising that ad services might lag two, three or four years behind where these web technology companies are.

more like 10 years behind. Asking an Ad Vendor to provide me and my fellow developers with valid xhtml code got the response: "We only have iframe and javascript as our current available ad tags."

Brilliant people, these Ad Vendors.

you mean we have to use valid xhtml to get our posts to display correctly? How inconsiderate.

I don't consider a browser to run HTML5 until it utilizes all tags, not just the ones that are carried over from HTML4

hence the "on their computers".

if 50% of college students are mac users, then 50% of them don't care about playing games on their computers.

I agree whole-heartedly. Flash is a resource hog. jQuery FTW!

css line-height property. Seriously, slashdotters are exulting table-based layouts? There is nothing, repeat nothing that you can't do with css and tableless layouts*. *using a standards-compliant browser. Fuck you IE6!

didn't Johnny Lee already do this?

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considering most of these are reporting other site's prank articles, it probably will be a day full of prank articles.

posting on the internet can NEVER be considered a waste of time.