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Web Open Font Format Gets Backing from Mozilla
Slashdot —
... Blokland had done on embedding a variety of useful font metadata with the font resource compression that Kew had developed. The end result is a format that includes optimized compression that reduces the download time needed to load font resources while incorporating information about the font's origin and licensing. The format doesn't include any encryption or DRM, so it should be universally accepted by browser vendors—this should also qualify it for adoption by the W3C." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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OStatic blogs —
Skype for Linux going (almost) open source. The UI will be open, but not the core.
Open source identity: Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. In this Q&A, he discusses the history of Rails and where it's headed.
5 open source billing systems to watch. AgileBill and others take care of payment processing, invoicing, and more.
Web Open Font Format gets backing from Mozilla. It's an effort to bring advanced typography to the web in a much better way.
Setting up a MySQL cluster for your Linux desktop. It's not so ...
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GigaOM Network —
Skype for Linux going (almost) open source. The UI will be open, but not the core.
Open source identity: Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. In this Q&A, he discusses the history of Rails and where it's headed.
5 open source billing systems to watch. AgileBill and others take care of payment processing, invoicing, and more.
Web Open Font Format gets backing from Mozilla. It's an effort to bring advanced typography to the web in a much better way.
Setting up a MySQL cluster for your Linux desktop. It's not so ...
Chrome and Firefox Get Upgrades [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
This week is a big one for open source browsers, which, as we've pointed out many times, are responsible for most of the innovation going on in the browser arena. The first beta version of Firefox 3.6 is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and you can get it here. Meanwhile, Google has delivered a very fast new beta version of the Chrome browser, and it features bookmark syncing so that you can keep your bookmarks streamlined across multiple computers.
You can watch a video showing the new bookmark syncing in Chrome here. The Google Chrome blog adds:
"Once you've activated Google Chrome bookmark sync on each of your ...
Chrome and Firefox Get Upgrades
OStatic blogs —
This week is a big one for open source browsers, which, as we've pointed out many times, are responsible for most of the innovation going on in the browser arena. The first beta version of Firefox 3.6 is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and you can get it here. Meanwhile, Google has delivered a very fast new beta version of the Chrome browser, and it features bookmark syncing so that you can keep your bookmarks streamlined across multiple computers.
You can watch a video showing the new bookmark syncing in Chrome here. The Google Chrome blog adds:
"Once you've activated Google Chrome bookmark sync on each of ...
