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Monday, 8th October 2007

Native DOMContentLoaded is coming to Safari. I filed this bug over two years ago. They’ve just committed the resulting patch to trunk.

# 1:07 am / browsers, domcontentloaded, javascript, onload, safari, webkit

The larger question is why on earth, in 2007 and ten years after XML came out, we are still using text files that don't label their encoding?

Rick Jelliffe

# 12:27 pm / textfiles, rickjeliffe, encoding, unicode, xml

Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context. Fantastic presentation from Ian Rogers, the head of Yahoo! Music, who has spent 8 years watching DRM cripple the online music industry.

# 9:10 pm / drm, ian-rogers, music, yahoo, yahoomusic