Protos

Found this post via. delicious and its simply poetry for geeks:

proposed new tag: IMG
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Thu, 25 Feb 93 21:09:02 -0800

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.

An example is:

(IMG SRC=”file://foobar.com/foo/bar/blargh.xbm”\)

(There is no closing tag; this is just a standalone tag.)

This tag can be embedded in an anchor like anything else; when that happens, it becomes an icon that’s sensitive to activation just like a regular text anchor.

Browsers should be afforded flexibility as to which image formats they support. Xbm and Xpm are good ones to support, for example. If a browser cannot interpret a given format, it can do whatever it wants
instead (X Mosaic will pop up a default bitmap as a placeholder).

This is required functionality for X Mosaic; we have this working, and we’ll at least be using it internally. I’m certainly open to suggestions as to how this should be handled within HTML; if you have
a better idea than what I’m presenting now, please let me know. I know this is hazy wrt image format, but I don’t see an alternative than to just say “let the browser do what it can” and wait for the
perfect solution to come along (MIME, someday, maybe).

Let me know what you think………

Cheers,
Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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Well Marc, I think they agree :-)

I found the Youtubeflick below and was quite surprised:

I have a Daft Punk CD and I like it, but I had no clue that the best most catchy parts of their songs are from other people.

Basically some of their best catch lines are rip offs. Now does that actually make the music poorer? I mean it really should not, but somehow, it just seem more stale.

Here I was thinking that they were brilliant musicians and all (and I guess they are to some extend), but somehow I am not so impressed as I would have been (or rather were) – if they had actually made everything themselves…

So I am thinking: Does it matter? Which is more important? to have ideas or to employ them smartly? And then it ties straight into innovation.

For instance the Ipod that everybody loves: Apple did not invent all the components. They were clever at getting the right stuff and combining it the right way (and iterate). That doesen’t matter that much to me, I still think they are clever, but somehow, for the music it felt different.

Anyway ripping content from Barry Manilow rofl.

Anyway here is a goddie:

UPDATE (2-08-2007): Amazing hand action video

via: popsci.com

touchgraph.com

Has the most wonderful in browser Java application for navigating for instance retailer search results from google.

You have to try it yourself to actually feel why its nice. Each node folds and many other nice details.

This looks simply amazing!

via: clipaday.com

EDIT:
Thanks to Pål Heick:

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0607/28233/PS_Overview_MiXED_5M_MBR.asx

via: http://labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html

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