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I'm slightly disappointed that this isn't a minecraft clone in 64kb of JavaScript.

Even if what it actually is is much more useful...

mpettitton Australian government likely to standardise on Drupal

From using it on a daily basis, it's not even that great at uni websites. The killer failing as far as I'm concerned is the menu system - compared with WordPress or Drupal or any other content management system, it makes adding pages to menus such a chore...

mpettitton Examining the file requests made by the top 100 Alexa sites

Do the sizes of different types of file have any impact? For example, does a 50kb image have more impact than a 50kb JavaScript file? (I'm guessing yes, since the js file will tend to be compressed for sending, whereas the image is already compressed)

How about the use of cdn for common files? Is there a correlation between, say, the use of Google's jQuery cdn service and faster/slower sites? What about distinct domain lookups for multiple files? Is rakuten loading all those files from a single domain, while Google spread the 10 requests around a pile of specialist static file servers?

It's interesting data though!

mpettitton Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.

That's, hmm, interesting from a competitive and privacy advocate perspective. It means that whilst Prism Break and similar websites are advocating it, the key parts which report back to Google are still in place, since they aren't the bits being replaced.

mpettitton Neither Microsoft, Nokia, nor anyone else should fork Android. It’s unforkable.

Interesting article. I'm intrigued as to how CynaogenMod handles the lack of Google Play APIs - it seems to be skirted around on their website.

mpettitton LaTeX was not built for the web

In terms of pure mathematical typesetting, it's great, and, as they mention, Mathjax does a fantastic job of handling equations in webpages. Yes, TeX takes some learning, but it's a let less verbose than MathML for the same equation, and being distinct isn't necessarily an issue: there is precedent within HTML, such as CSS and Javascript code being embedded within pages. A browser with native support for (a subset of) TeX would allow for a lot of technical papers to be presented in a fully searchable, device agnostic manner, and would avoid the additional learning curve or conversion to MathML.

For layout, though, HTML with CSS is the way to go if your prime target is web.