Slashdot informs me of Barrelfish, a new experimental operating system being developed in collaboration between ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research, Cambridge. And all I can think of is, somwhere some hacker is thinking “like shooting fish in a barrel“.
Month: September 2009
iPhone specific pages
I recently learned some tips and tricks for developing webpages for the iPhone. There is really only one major difference that must be there for it to work properly. The viewport-meta.
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=320; user-scalable=true” />
This meta-tag explains to the iPhone what dimensions the page is intended to be viewed in. If this tag is not supplied the iPhone will assume a width of 980 pixels. This way, even if you have made a page with “small” content it would still be scaled unless you also supplied the viewport-command.
If on iPhone, remember viewport!
Open Source Advertising?
In an interesting take on making advertising Slashdot reports of an “open source commercial”. Linux proponent Ken Starks created voice material for radio advertising that can be re-used by anyone who want to make their own Linux-commercial.