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Submission + - In-Depth Look at HTML5 (infoworld.com)

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner offers a four-part series devoted to the new features of HTML5. Each articles examines the evolving spec in-depth, focusing on canvas, video, audio, and graphics for display options, including the <canvas> and <video> tags, Scalable Vector Graphics, and WebGL; local data storage, including Web Storage, Web Database, and other APIs designed to transform Web pages into local applications; data communications, for cross-document messaging, WebSockets, and other HTML5 APIs that improve website and browser interactivity; and forms, for increasing control over data input and validation."

Comment Re:Perl 6 might be great... not. (Score 5, Interesting) 126

Hypocricy? I don't think this word means what you think it means. Could you explain what you think is so hypocritical about this design decision?

From what I understand, the Perl6 operators were chosen according to Huffman compression principles. Frequently used operators became shorter, less frequently used operators became longer.

The bare colon operator turned out to be much more useful elsewhere. The dash-arrow operator was initially borrowed from C++, but these days, most dynamic languages all use dot for the same purpose.

This sound more like pragmatism than anything else.

Comment Another gotcha... (Score 1) 238

The ToGo service requires an updated software to be installed on your DVR box (7.1-x). They expect that the rollout of this software to take several weeks and months, though you can fill out a priority request form with your DVR's service number to get yourself higher in the queue. Until you get this software, you'll have nothing on the ToGo side from the PC.

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