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A Word To (Both Of) Our Subscribers

From time to time, you may receive notice of the posting of a piece that may or may not seem somewhat familiar, and seems to represent an event in the distant past.  Here’s the story:  A few months ago, we had to move to a new server and change software platforms.  That meant migrating several years of blog content from one system to another.  That turned out to be a rather onerous task; so far we have managed to pull over only about a year’s worth while still staying more or less current.  As time allows, we are gradually backfilling with old content, just to keep the historical record intact.  Several more years to go.  Empty-nesting may speed the process a bit.  So, expect to see more old stuff pop up that may or may not continue to be of interest.

All Is Not Lost, Or Is It?

I have mixed feelings about this … musical mediocrity aside, OK Go is a group who has done some entertaining and novel dance and video pieces.  And their latest project is particularly interesting to me, from my Web development perspective, as it exploits HTML5, the “latest and greatest” so-called Web standard.  Trouble is, it isn’t yet really standard, and as OK Go‘s piece shows us, we are still cursed with browser incompatibility.  Try it. And discover that it runs only on Chrome.  Not a big problem for me, as I have five browsers right at hand here on most all of my machines (where I usually spawn an alternate browser from a Firefox display by using one of several “view this in …” Firefox extensions).  But I’ll bet it is an inconvenience or even a show-stopper for many others.  Ten years ago, I said that surely browser wars would subside by now … but they may as bad or even worse now. . At least nobody is using the accursed ten-year-old IE6 still … or are they?  Job security, I guess.

The defanged version here:

While we are at it, let’s revisit an earlier OK Go vid or two.