Many of these features are ready to implement today.
We don’t have to wait for entire specs to be completed, we can start using some hawtness now.
Well, as long as it’s enough that it works in Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox. If it needs to work in Internet Explorer you will have to wait for Internet Explorer 9 to get some amount of support for these new cool HTML5 features. How long that wait will be is hard to say, IE 9 is currently available as a test drive with no planned release date for the final build.
It also seems like Internet Explorer 9 will not be supported for Windows XP. That means Internet Explorer 8 will be the last version to run on that platform.
The big news today as reported by Tom Evans in the ElCap Report for the 19th of May on his excellent ElCap Report site.
Alex Honnold and Uli Steck teaming up to make a run at the Nose record and National Geographic is there to film it!
The big news of the day was Alex Honnold and Uli Steck teaming up to make a run at the Nose record, set last year by Hans and Yuji at 2:37:05. The two met last night for the first time and were on the route by 8:20am. Alex lead the parts that I could see, wearing a pack no less, as he had done the route several times and Uli climbed second, never having been on the route. National Geographic is filming the event and the local boys are getting the manual labor done. Ropes are strung down the face to the Great Roof for the film crew. Local Mikie Schafer is working on the filming and directing.
Anyway the lads were out for a familiarization run today and looked to have learned a lot of what not to do! They passed a horde of climbers along the way with no difficulties. They threw down an impressive 4:45 for their first climb together. They are going tomorrow for another run and then we will see what their schedule will be.
Be sure to follow the ElCap Report to see how the drama unfolds. This will be exciting!
Me trying to capture the scenery on the top of Åreskutan. Photo: Lars-Göran Andersson
Living in Uppsala I’m not really used to mountains but we do have some a bit up north. It isn’t Gastlosen or the alps, but it’s still pretty damn beautiful!
“The good guys have gone to unprecedented lengths, and have had successes beyond anything they would have thought possible when they started. But a year and a half into the battle, here’s the bottom line:
The worm is winning.”
The Enemy Within – Magazine – The Atlantic
About the Conficker computer worm. Very interesting evening read.
I’m not sure what it is with Japanese culture but I find their mindset fascinating. Just compare Yuji’s thoughts on climbing with what you hear in most climbing movies. Not that there is anything wrong with the other views but for me it’s like Yuji is thinking on another level.
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Especially if you get BigUp to film it!