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Proposal for the W3C HTML Working Group to adopt the WHAT Working Group's HTML5 as the starting point for further HTML development. This would be a good thing. HTML development has been stalled for too long. Looks like IP won't be an issue either: "If the group is agreeable to these proposals, Apple, Mozilla and Opera will agree to arrange a non-exclusive copyright assignment to the W3 Consortium for HTML5 specifications."
- jim 4-10-2007 11:16 pm [link] [add a comment]

Daring Fireball attempts to correct the story with some facts about the AAC audio format. I recently drove a thread over at Tom's a bit off topic with similar concerns, although I didn't have all the numbers that John Gruber has put together.
- jim 4-10-2007 8:07 pm [link] [1 ref] [15 comments]

How to write a spelling corrector:

I figured that in less than a plane flight, and in less than a page of code, I could write a spelling corrector that achieves 80 or 90% accuracy at a rate of at least 10 words per second. And in fact, here, in 20 lines of Python 2.5 code, is the complete spelling corrector....
(via HTP)
- jim 4-10-2007 7:17 pm [link] [add a comment]

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