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1st April 2005

Typographic Glass Ceiling

“…the world has such a rich typographic history which has been virtually excluded from the online medium. Even a hundred years ago there were more typefaces from any given printer compared to the selection of usable screen fonts you can practically count on one hand now.”

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1st April 2005

The Little CC license that could, or When Technology is All Busted Up

“Phil Ringnalda points to the new Yahoo Creative Commons search engine and notices that because the engine is relying purely on links to CC licenses to pull out content that is supposedly licensed as CC, there is going to be a lot of confusion related to what is, or is not, CC licensed.”

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1st April 2005

Link Prefetching FAQ

“Link prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished loading the page, it begins silently prefetching specified documents and stores them in its cache. When the user visits one of the prefetched documents, it can be served up quickly out of the browser’s cache.”

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