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1. Comment - Snip, snip, snip: Three undersea cables cut

   (Dec 19, 2008 - 7:22 PM)

   Most may try to sell products to people in the US, but I have found that the servers used are mainly in China, South Korea, and Brazil.
   
   I have seen a huge drop in spam recently, but I have noticed this before near holidays.

2. Comment - Sun's JavaFX: Is it Java? JavaScript? Or something new?

   (Dec 10, 2008 - 4:38 PM)

   ... "along with JavaScript (which is related in style but not in architecture, and which is essentially a product of Mozilla)."
   
   JavaScript is a product of Mozilla? This assertion would surprise a few people at both Netscape (RIP) and Mozilla.

3. Comment - Firefox captures twenty percent of net; Chrome ties Opera

   (Nov 5, 2008 - 6:49 PM)

   Yes. Just as Mozilla makes its Gecko browser engine (used in Firefox, Seamonkey, etc.) available for other open source products, Apple makes its WebKit engine available (used in Chrome, Safari, Omniweb, etc.).
   
   I do wonder whether V8 will last: all the browser makers are working hard to make JavaScript faster, so there is a lot of duplication of effort, which wastes resources which could be used for other things.

4. Comment - Firefox captures twenty percent of net; Chrome ties Opera

   (Nov 5, 2008 - 4:11 PM)

   Actually, Chrome uses the same browser engine as Safari does, not the engine that Firefox does, so Chrome and Firefox are hardly "closely aligned".

5. Comment - Evidence tabs will get more attention in future Firefox releases

   (Sep 8, 2008 - 10:14 PM)

   The draft HTML 5 spec appears to say that it also defines an XHTML 5 (though possibly not with that name), so XHTML is not dead.