Its a good read, his point seem pretty valid, or at least nothing that wasn't expected.

I wouldnt be surprised if this is misquoted and it really means the JIT translation that the other browser engines use. But doing it on another core is a nice move, I wonder how well that affects the performance. I'd honestly have expected Apple to do that first, having a good API for doing this kind of thing.

Firefox has a new javascript engine called Jagermonkey that will probably beat it, as it's in part the webkit engine.

looking at the outcome IE comes off the worst with the current algorithm, please keep it that way. Thanks from all the Web Developers.

I hope the page of contents is a list of the 21 top pages of the book.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Culture

Its not exactly most favored nation, if there's no advantage to being so.

The main problems with things like this are that you have to go out and buy an expensive peripheral for an 'extra' in the game, you can play the game perfectly fine without it usually its only to enhance. The reason keyboard and mouse stuck for gaming is because you have them there. I love the innovations that these kinda things do, but I'll probably never get to use it. Plus all my games are downloaded from Steam now.

You'll want to take a look at the Webkit Nightlies to check out their dev tools, eventually they'll move into chrome/safari but its worth the occasional crash for what they bring: http://blog.bogojoker.com/2009/10/improving-the-web-inspector/

Yeah, what's probably happened is they've hooked up a quick database to store users / tweets etc Then all the front end work is just shamelessly taken and they only have to work on making a similar API for it to work with. I wouldn't be surprised to find that a Plurk client would just work with the MSN one if you change the URL. The design is also painfully similar, so I imagine they just threw on the microsoft branding on the front and uploaded some new images and colours in the CSS.

Its front-end web programming (HTML/CSS/Javascript) that was stolen, these are always open to read, they could only obfuscate that if they felt the need. Howeever the backend code would probably have to have been written themselves (especially as its more likely the startup used ruby/php than asp)

That's because in Safari it uses quicktime to render the video element

On OS X this has been available for ages, switchs all youtube videos to HTML5 and is extensible for other placse like Dailymotion. http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/

Psycho-acoustic simulation sounds like a real good pseudo-science. Maybe they can create an agreement in exchange for some platinum covered cables!

This happened to my site and the google webmaster tools were helpful but frustrating, it took 2 weeks of my site being banned in all major browsers before they officially sanctioned it OK. It did give me a list of all the URLS where there was problems, so it wasn't too hard to debug.