By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: November 7, 2005
Monday, 7 November 2005
- mTune-n Cordless Headset for iPod Nanos ★
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Clever design: wireless headset without any actual wireless technology.
- Camino 1.0b1 ★
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Samuel Sidler:
This is by far the finest Camino release ever. It’s so great, we’re calling it our stable release and replacing the download link on the main page with it.
- Rich Siegel on the Yahoo Statue ★
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In light of the Yahoo Mail statue fiasco, Rich Siegel asks how such a stupid idea could see the light of day.
- Yahoo Breaks Godwin’s Law ★
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Yahoo’s executives are apparently monomaniacally focused on “beating Google”, which led someone there to commission a downright embarrassing “statue” and plaque congratulating the Yahoo Mail team while sort of implicitly comparing Gmail to the Nazis.
- Copy Goes Here ★
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Coudal Partners’ amusing short film is done; DVDs and t-shirts are available.
- Windows’s Built-In RSS Parser Will Require Well-Formed XML ★
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This is welcome news — the upshot of this is that all feeds will have to be well-formed XML, because all feeds will need to work with Windows’s built-in parser.
- Improving Tabbed Browsing in Firefox ★
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Ben Goodger reports on some usability research Google conducted regarding tabbed browsing in Firefox. His first suggested change is something Safari has done all along: include a “close this tab” button in each tab. I’m surprised they needed a usability test to figure out that Firefox’s current model of using just one “close this tab” button per window is sub-optimal.
Side question: Does anyone not believe that Google is working on a Google-branded derivative of Firefox?
(Via Khoi Vinh.)