So for me the answer is no. The whole thing reminds me of doing ARM assembler with thumb code mixed in. If you have a very specific usage for it then yes, it would certianly be useful - but it's going to be up to the people who need it to actually use and improve it. Everyone else has no need to care and the average developer shouldn't *need* to care or even be aware of it.

Oh! There was a miscommunication my dear pastafarian friend! Please accept my appologies.

You are absolutely correct in that the S660 is an MR, and in stylish compact package! I don't actually know of a good resource in English but there is plenty of informatino available in Japanese. Basically it's a re-birth of the Beat with some S series touches. The car itself is a compact, just like the Beat. I haven't seen any info on the actual engine but the "S" series naming hints at something nice. What worries me about it from the concept is the center console:
http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims3/GLOB/resize/600x400/http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/159/441/3/S1594413/slug/l/p1160526-1.jpg
This looks dangerously like there may be no real manual option and, even if there is, there isn't much space to shift without feeling up your passenger.

For the love of god man learn to use google. The Carrera GT is in fact an RR layout; you know, kind of like how most (every?) Porsche is. I even found a picture using this awesome thing called "image search": http://www.automild.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Porsche-Carrera-GTS-White-Engine-Diagram.jpg

Most forklifts are RR or at least RMR. This way the engine itself works as part of the counterweight. Having a true MR layout on a forklift would probably not be the best engineering idea unless you had something heavier that needed to be part of the machine anyway.

Accel turns are standard and basic manuvers for technical driving. The rev point at which you pop the clutch will be different by car based on balance and weight but if you were to actually blow a dif at 5k RPM just by popping the clutch you must have a really really poorly made diff or a very heavy and unbalanced vehicle.

Clutch discs are disposable items, like break pads and tires. You should be checking these things like you check your oil and coolant. If you're performing manuvers which put a lot of stress on your components and not checking them regularly you're asking for trouble. In a car like a Porsche you'd better be checking them even if you are just using it on a daily commute.

In the case of our dead celebrity friend there were apparent mechanical issues with the car before they went on their joy ride. Let it be a lesson; keep your machine in check and don't ignore warning signs.

Look it up, it is in fact RR. Forklifts are also RR, and I would not call them "itty" :P

The car can't see the road or predict where you want to go or what direction you want to be facing at any point in a turn. Traction control assumes you want to make safe and mild turns and will steal energy from your wheels to stop you doing manuvers you may intentionally be trying to perform.

As a practical example let's say you enter an intersection in the turning lane such that you will cut across traffic (to the left in the US, the right in Japan). If you are in an FR or an MR and you turn the wheel enough that you would make the turn normally, then depress the clutch, rev up to say 5 or 6 thousand RPM, then pop the clutch, one of the following things will happen:
A. If you have traction control ON you will make the turn normally.
B. If you have traction control OFF the rear wheels will slip and escape to the side and you will perform a "spin turn", wich will result in a very tight U-turn.
If you intended to do a spin turn and you left traction control ON you would not end up makign that U-Turn you wanted to and would end up making a normal turn, also looking like a douchebag as your car sloppily jitters through the intersection.

Don't mean to nitpick but Honda makes MidShips including the upcoming S660. Also even though the above quote states "middle of the car" I'm pretty sure it's RR, not MR.

Side note: Our office car is a Toyota MR-S and it is a blast. Mind you it only has 140~ish BHP, but it's really made me love MR layouts and I am definitely checking out the S660.

Actually APNG is explicitly mentioned as a supported format for the image tag in the HTML5 spec.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#the-img-element
Search for "APNG".

There's a patch for Chrome/Chromium they've promised to accept if they see more widespread usage. Also may I point out that APNG gracefully degrades to PNG - so APNG will not actually break anything you'll just get the first frame on a browser that does not support APNG. In other words no "this site looks best in" required - just be aware that some browsers will only show the first frame.

It would be great to have a widely accepted standard from the get-go but that is something we do not have. APNG is the closest thing to an accepted standard and until we see wider usage we will not see wider adoption. And without better tools to handle it we most certainly will not see wider usage and thus this project. If you're sick of putting up with GIF or having to use JS/CSS hacks for animation would you not agree that APNG would be nice to have?

For one of our stretch goals we were considering implementing a jQuery plugin to dis-assemble and animate APNG images for browsers that do not support APNG. Since we would prefer having people use APNG and browser developers realize the demand and implement it themselves we decided not to include this. After implementing apngasm in CoffeeScript/JavaScript writing something like this would be trivial - would you like us to re-add this as a stretch goal?