The concept of creating animated images out of the index frame format of a video codec is pretty amusing to me. Just use the video codec if you want video.
This becomes a complicated discussion. In an img tag, a webp can degrade to gif, but that is not true of webm, which is not an image. And webp uses considerably less resources than webm.
It's probably also an easier sell to the more problematic browsers (you know who they are) to support webp than webm.
By degrade in an img tag you mean if the server does sniffing or content negotiation to send gif instead of webp?
> It's probably also an easier sell to the more problematic browsers
The only browser I can think of that does not support webm already but might conceivably add support for webp is Safari. Chrome, Firefox and Edge all support webm, and I don't see IE or Opera Mini adding webp support, since neither one is really in active development.
Maybe you're right that Safari is more likely to support webp than webm. It's hard to say.
If a browser doesn't support that, it's probably not going to support the image format you're trying to negotiate anyway. In that case it's just going to fall back to the enclosed default img which is exactly what you'd want.
At the HOPE conference last month, Stallman said he would on occasion borrow a stranger's smartphone should he be in a public place and need to make a phone call.
He also called people who don't agree with his stance fools, and said that he holds them in contempt. I guess that doesn't extend to refusing, on principle, to get the benefit of contemptible foolishness when he finds it useful to do so.
Personally, I am leery of barrowing anyone's smart phone, but not due to software freedom. From what I have seen, nearly everyone uses their phones while sitting on the toilet. Gross.
> nearly everyone uses their phones while sitting on the toilet. Gross.
That's a common myth. Toilets have virtually no germs. I've seen so many studies that say "ice dispensers have more germs than a toilet", etc.
In a study done on germs on the areas of the body, the area around the nose came in first, the hands second, and the groin near the last. Germs don't come out of your butt.
Speaking as the smartass who made the original comment, your work is much appreciated! If you need additional printed works for examples, I have quite a few.
That comment was perfect. One sentence, and tying things to the real world.
Anyone on the committee(s.........) who reads that, either gets the point immediately, or is irredeemable. (IMHO)
As for how it is scoped and executed... Plentiful committee fodder! ;-)
P.S. I'm just tongue-in-cheek, here. I've no real knowledge of the Unicode specifications world. Just imagining lots of committees and lots of pieces of turf, partially tied back to the geo-political whatevers of the world we all live in. :-)
Though maybe we can add star (and half-star!) ratings to HN comments, moving forward? ;-)
An example where the half star appears in the middle of text would be helpful, e.g. "Die Hard 7 ( 1/2*) is the latest movie..." In most of the examples I have, the stars are kind of on their own rather than in the flow of text, and that makes a difference to the Unicode committee.
If you have good examples, you can email my username @righto.com
Self-driving cars drastically reduce the total number of cars necessary, and, as the article notes, limit the ability of manufacturers to upsell features. If the fleet of cars on the road were largely self-driving, there is no way it would support the present variety of car manufacturers. I would hazard that most would go bankrupt.
>Self-driving cars drastically reduce the total number of cars necessary
The fact that the cars drive themselves really changes nothing. Car pooling reduces the total number of cars necessary. Public transportation reduces the total number of cars necessary. You might try to argue that car pooling will increase as a result of the change, but I don't think that is a given. You'd need to explain away surge pricing to convince me otherwise.
But certainly, if you'd like to sell me your Tesla shares now at half price and get to safety, I'll be a friend and take them off your hands for you :)
Precedent is very much against PhantomAlert. Such data simply isn't copyrightable. See Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991), which involved fictitious entries in a telephone book.
Precedent for general copyright, yes, but according to other news sources and PhantomAlert comments they were in negotiations for data-sharing that fell through. The chances those weren't covered by NDAs as well as likely more stringent contractual obligations is very low, so there's a contractual element. It's very different for me to sue you over data you've scraped than for us to sign contracts covering what you're allowed to do with our data and whether you're allowed to use it at all. In my experience financial data is just about always fenced by contracts, simply trusting the guy's you've been competing to take care of you is pure incompetence.
It's much older than 1963. Erasmus was researching this in the 15th/16th century, but John Wilkins' 1668 book is probably the most well known of the early works[1].
Wilkins' book describes a universal language, which is not at all the same thing as linguistic universals.
Wilkins was trying to derive a language in which each word functioned as an index into a universal ontology of concepts, so that the concept represented by a word could be deduced by breaking apart the structure of the word itself. This is an interesting (if quixotic) experiment, but it's really concerned with building an a priori language.
The study of linguistic universals is the study of properties of natural languages: for example, all languages have pronouns is a linguistic universal, because it is a property that is true of all natural human languages. This is clearly not something that Wilkins was working towards: he was building a new language for the purpose of perfecting and clarifying communication. His Real Character had little—if anything—to do with analysis of the properties of natural language, and therefore also has little to do with the study of linguistic universals.
Until we can write truly robust versions of everyday productivity applications, such as editors or spreadsheets, without resorting to <canvas> underlayment, it simply isn't true that the web is in a good state. Flexbox improves the layout situation (as present CSS is astonishingly terrible at simple layout), but it won't elevate to anywhere near the point of making aforementioned productivity applications.
[1] http://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/fl_awebp/cell_an...