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Webapp URLInfo does something pretty simple—grab data from the header files dished out by web servers, usually hidden from browser view—but it is oddly fascinating to peer into the...

Planning to spend some time this weekend, or during one of those mythical "free" weekends, whipping your web site into shape? Open Web Design, a free and frequently-updated collection of site...

Our own Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension makes auto-adding HTML signatures to Gmail messages a breeze, but what if you've got multiple signatures for different types of email? The GeekFG blog has a...

Looking to embed up-to-date headlines into a personal web page, start page, or other HTML-friendly project? Google makes it seriously easy with its code generating tool. Choose a layout style...

When you want to turn that giant spreadsheet into an HTML table without wrangling too many TD's and TR's by hand, you can use a formula to generate the HTML tags for you. The Design Intellection...

If you're one of those folks who handwrites HTML, you know how laborious it can be to type out all the tags and descriptors for a simple but highly-efficient table. Kotatsu, a free AJAX utility,...

Anyone who's tried saving a Word document as a web page knows you get way more than you bargained for in the HTML and CSS department in the result. The Productivity Portfolio blog offers two...

Lifehacker reader and TiddlyWiki enthusiast Fraser has written up a guide that takes the idea of cut-and-paste Outlook Today customizing to the next logical (or at least Lifehacker-friendly)...

Your plain vanilla "Outlook Today" screen could be doing a whole lot more for you, especially if you aren't afraid of a little HTML or can get handy with a free page creator. Even if hand-coding's...

Need to send a line of text too long for an instant message, but don't feel like dashing off an email? Find some text you want access to later while using someone else's computer or a remote...

"...We're not here to solve Microsoft's problems. Microsoft's solution is for web standards developers to carry the burden of its browser failings. That is unacceptable for us, as web standards developers. Web standards development is browser agnostic. For open standard to flourish, we have to be independent of the browser vendors..."

"...'Ogg' is a wrapper that ties together 'Theora' encoded video and 'Vorbis' encoded sound. Together, Ogg Theora+Vorbis give users a way to see movies on your computer. Ogg Vorbis+Theora are not known to be encumbered by any patents (the only applicable patent on Theora’s predecessor, called 'VP3', was licensed for everyone to use in any way they want). Ogg Theora+Vorbis are implementable on nearly all modern computers. There is free software (zero-cost and freely to sharable and modifiable) to make and play Ogg Vorbis+Theora movies. Ogg Vorbis+Theora are a great basis for interoperability and a fine choice to recommend in any standard that uses multimedia files precisely because everyone can use Ogg Theora+Vorbis..."

Government, state and regional agencies, authorities and services may also publish in other formats, but they must always publish in one of these formats. The decree is retroactive, and by 2014 all documents published prior to this decree must have been converted and made available in one of the three formats.

"Nokia and Apple have privately pushed to give Ogg the noose treatment (and so far succeeded) in HTML5. This destroyed all hope of having free (as in freedom) media embedded in HTML5 in an interoperable way..." -- via slashdot http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251&from=rss