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Opera Develops Search Engine For Web Developers 31

Posted by Soulskill from the web-devs-need-love-too dept.
nk497 writes "The Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA) doesn't index content like a standard search engine, but looks at markup, style, scripting and the technology behind pages. Based on those existing MAMA-ed pages, 80.4 per cent of sites use cascading style sheets (CSS), while the average web page has 47 markup errors and 16,400 characters. Should you want to know which country is using the AJAX component XMLHttpRequest the most, MAMA can tell you that it's Norway, with 10.2 per cent of the data set." Additional coverage is available at Computerworld, and a deeper explanation is up at Opera's Dev site.

Comment Re:What is computer science? (Score 1) 431

by JVolkman (#16809574) Attached to: Software Dev Cycle As Part of CS Curriculum?
You are not mistaken. My alma mater does this, and I graduated from the latter (SE). While my computer science peers were taking
Operating Systems and Cryptography, I was taking Software Architecture, Software Engineering Process and Requirements and Specifications. There was overlap, of course, and I took many CS courses. I also took CE courses, Human Factors courses, etc.

SCOTUS To Hear Patentable Thought Case 394

Posted by Zonk from the get-out-of-my-head dept.
skayell writes "The Supreme Court of the United States will hear a landmark patent case involving whether or not thoughts and relationships are patentable. Michael Crichton's essay in the New York Times attempts a thoughtful summary of Metabolite's primary assertion: they not only own the connection between homocysteine levels in the blood and vitamin B12 deficiency, but also any thought connecting the two."

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