portenkirchner.net » Jeffrey Zeldman http://portenkirchner.net porti's island in the net Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:58:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MischMasch 2009-09-06 http://portenkirchner.net/2009/09/06/mischmasch-2009-09-06/ http://portenkirchner.net/2009/09/06/mischmasch-2009-09-06/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:13:06 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/?p=238 Google App Engine will support XMPP to allow communication in real-time. (Via Google App Engine Blog)

Some readings on HTML5 from last week: Jeremy Keith writes about his thoughts on HTML5, and so does Jeffrey Zeldman in his article Loving HTML5. The HTML5 Super Friends have significant concerns about some aspects of the HTML5 specification.

O’Reilly‘s ETech Conference will be discontinued. (Via Tom Coates on Twitter)

]]> http://portenkirchner.net/2009/09/06/mischmasch-2009-09-06/feed/ 1 MischMasch 2009-08-24 http://portenkirchner.net/2009/08/24/mischmasch-2009-08-24/ http://portenkirchner.net/2009/08/24/mischmasch-2009-08-24/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:29:07 +0000 Georg Portenkirchner http://portenkirchner.net/?p=229 Apple will release Snow Leopard, the latest version of the Mac OS X, on August 28th. Most important seems to be the transition to 64-bit applications. The upgrade will cost only $29 or 29 €.

Jason Santa Maria announced the launch of Typedia, a shared encyclopedia of typefaces. Typedia makes it easy to classify, categorise, and connect typefaces. (Via Jason Santa Maria)

The new edition of Jeffrey Zeldman‘s book Designing with Web Standards can be preordered. The author wrote a blog post about what is new in the third edition of DWWS.

Nokia announced a netbook today. The Nokia Booklet 3G will be Windows based. A first video can be found on YouTube. (Via Fee Beyer on Twitter)

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