Linked List: October 19, 2007

Friday, 19 October 2007

WebKit Does HTML5 Client-Side Database Storage ★

Surfin’ Safari:

The current working spec for the HTML5 standard has a lot of exciting features we would eventually like to implement in WebKit. One feature we felt was exciting enough to tackle now even though the spec is still in flux is client-side database storage.

This is huge news for web developers.

Glass vs. Hamid ★

Today’s Layer Tennis match is a real humdinger. Great stuff.

About the Footnotes ★

Speaking of that Unicode leftwards-arrow-with-hook glyph, here’s the 2005 article where I described my footnote markup style, and some subsequent criticism and discussion from others, most notably Joe Clark.

I Want My ‘↩’ ★

I love that the glyph appears in the URL. Unicode nerdery at its best.

Google Booming ★

Miguel Helft reporting for The Times on Google’s latest quarterly results:

The results show that Google is growing roughly twice as fast as the overall online advertising market, which itself is booming, and that it is expanding far more quickly than any large Internet company.

Mac OS X Leopard Guided Tour ★

Apple’s video tour of what’s new in Leopard.

The Marble of Doom ★

Aggregated tracker for time lost to Mac OS X’s Spinning Pizza of Death cursor.

Bruji ★

My thanks to Bruji for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. Bruji’s line-up of “Pedia” apps — DVDpedia, Bookpedia, CDpedia, and Gamepedia — let you easily catalog and track your DVDs, CDs, books, and video games. Each features a great UI, iSight barcode scanning, Spotlight integration, a full screen view and more. They’re running a promotion this week where each person who purchases an app is eligible to win a case of wine. (But so where’s the Winepedia app?)