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Comment Flash not blinking out of existance (Score 1) 468

by ndoak on Friday May 07, 2010 @12:37PM (#32128734) Attached to: Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash?

Despite all of the negative press flash has received it is still a viable technology, and will remain so for quite some time. This is because we still have to deal with internet explorer 6, 7, and 8. These browsers will still be around for an unbearably long amount of time, taking up a large enough market share to make marketing types weary of loosing customers. Additionally, there are many flash developers out there who are familiar with the tools and language. Turning one's back on their production abilities is unwise when flash is "good enough". Don't get me wrong, the writing is on the wall for flash, just don't expect html 5 to replace it overnight.

British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online 568

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @01:57PM from the greek-to-me dept.

Peace Corps Library writes "BBC reports that about 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible, the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, have been recovered and put on the Internet. 'The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's greatest written treasures,' says Dr. Scot McKendrick, head of Western manuscripts at the British Library. 'This 1,600-year-old manuscript offers a window into the development of early Christianity and first-hand evidence of how the text of the Bible was transmitted from generation to generation.' The New Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus appears in Koine Greek, the original vernacular language, and the Old Testament in the version, known as the Septuagint, that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians. For 1,500 years, the Codex Sinaiticus lay undisturbed in a Sinai monastery until it was found in 1844 and split between Egypt, Russia, Germany, and Britain. It is thought to have survived because the desert air was ideal for preservation and because the monastery, on a Christian island in a Muslim sea, remained untouched, its walls unconquered. The British Library is marking the online launch of the manuscript with an exhibition which includes a range of historic items and artifacts linked to the document. 'The availability of the virtual manuscript for study by scholars around the world creates opportunities for collaborative research that would not have been possible just a few years ago.'"

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