At the end of last year Microsoft announced details of improvements to IE8’s compatibility view. It’s an announcement that went largely unnoticed until last week when a few rumblings could be heard coming from the web standards community.
To get to the bottom of this we need to understand the history.
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PICOL (otherwise known as Pictorial Communication Language) is a project that provides a series of free and open icons for use on electronic devices. The aim is to find a common pictorial language for electronic communication.
This short video tells the story of the History of the Internet using animated PICOL iconography.
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In the last couple of weeks Twitter has been making a lot of noise in the mainstream – at least here in the UK it has. First of all it was heavily featured on BBC news programmes and on their website. Then there was that interview between @wossy and @stephenfry on the Jonathon Ross show. And since then some of my non-techie offline friends have slowly begun following me on Twitter.
As exciting as it is to see real friends beginning to use Twitter, the excitement is usually short lived when I check them out to find they haven’t posted a single thing yet.
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