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betanews.com - 10/28/2009

iPhone cannot win the smartphone wars

— betanews.com — By Joe Wilcox , Betanews I'm going to make a bold prediction: Apple's iPhone will lose the... mobile device wars. Such statement will send some iPhone fans howling -- perhaps appropriately so with the full moon days passed and Halloween days away. :) ... (more) iPhone cannot win the smartphone wars

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hardwaresphere.com - 11/4/2009

Get A Mac: “PC Switcher” [Video]

— hardwaresphere.com — Here is fun online ad from Apple’s Get A Mac video series. This time, PC is trying... to stop users from switching to Mac because of Windows 7. Well, PC did capture one switcher and saying: “One down Mac! Thousands and Thousands to go!” Well, if Windows 7 is worth the match, ... (more) Get A Mac: “PC Switcher” [Video]

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ptech.allthingsd.com - 10/29/2009

Operating Systems Offer New Choices in PC Shopping

— ptech.allthingsd.com — Now that both Microsoft and Apple have finally shipped the new versions of their operating systems, Windows... 7 and Snow Leopard , respectively, it’s time for my annual fall computer-buying guide. This guide stresses laptops, which have ... (more) Operating Systems Offer New Choices in PC Shopping

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RT @alexlines: "why do we have & not or ? b/c Andreessen shipped img first" http://bit.ly/4joiFo 7 days ago

"why do we have an element? Why not or ? b/c Marc Andreessen shipped one, and shipping code wins" http://bit.ly/4joiFo 7 days ago

Great post here from Mark Pilgrim about the creation of the tag. I remember those days... http://tinyurl.com/y85pxvu 11 days ago

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Breakfast briefing: File sharing booms, Conficker worm continues to grow
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... • And a treat for digital historians, courtesy of Mark Pilgrim - who dug around the mailing lists from the early days of web development and pulled out the reasons why HTML has an IMG tag. In a nutshell: a number of ideas were proposed by various luminaries, but (as Pilgrim says) Mark Andreessen won out by shipping code that did it the way he thought would work. ...

History of the IMG tag
Boing Boing — Mark Pilgrim traces the history of the humble IMG tag and the heated discussion that ensued when graphics were added to the web: I'd like to propose a new, optional HTML tag: IMG Required argument is SRC="url". This names a bitmap or pixmap file for the browser to attempt to pull over the network and interpret as an image, to be embedded in the text at the point of the tag's occurrence. Why do we have an IMG element? (via Waxy)

Same as it Ever Was: The History of HTML is a Conversation, Not a Spec
Webmonkey — ... Developer Mark Pilgrim has posted a fascinating look at how the HTML img tag came into existence. The history Pilgrim digs up — mailing list conversations between the creators of the first web browsers like Marc Andreessen and the webs early pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee — show that far from being a carefully planned specification, the lingua franca of the web evolved a bit like the early universe — out of a murky chaos. ...