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in the context of programming, transpernt is a contranym it can either mean that a system is hard to see (like a pane of glass) or easy to see into (like a transparent gameboy). !--more-- these two meanings are pretty much exact opposites, and it's frequently difficult to know which one is being spoken about. FORTH systems often pride themselves...

My Plea to the W3C: Giving a semantic meaning to an "Obsolete" element. !--more-- I'll cut right to the chase, here's my proposal: span style="font-size-adjust:0.7;"The big element can be used to represent the "big idea" of a document or section, ie. text that should still be read when skimming through a document/span Rationale Why do we make...

an incredibly simple protocol for reliably and correctly downloading large immutable files. !--more-- (this is a follow-up and successor to my RTP proposal) Problem Statement Downloading large files is hard. Networks are messy, and while there are plenty of protocols that aim to abstract away this messiness, they all have their own problems....

One protocol to rule them all: refining the ideas behind HTTP, BitTorrent, Gemini, and 9p. !--more-- Goals as simple as possible without sacrificing our other goals (less complex than http) performs well under poor network conditions, even when payloads are large (unlike gemini) performs well under high latency (unlike 9p) good single-source...

Firefox's best-kept secret feature. When you bookmark a page, firefox opens an editor with the following options: Name Location Tags But there's actually a secret fourth field... !--more-- The Other "Edit Bookmark" menu there are two ways of editing a bookmark: going to the bookmarked page and clicking the star icon (this is the same menu that...