{"id":161,"date":"2009-08-06T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/htmlcssjs.wpengine.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2014-10-08T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T20:41:22","slug":"while-twitter-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/web\/while-twitter-is-down\/","title":{"rendered":"While Twitter is Down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d (gently) toss some links at you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nczonline.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/introduction-to-sessionstorage\/\">Introduction to sessionStorage<\/a> a couple of weeks ago. I approve.\n<p>As it stands, I&#8217;m always storing bits of data in globally accessible places (either in the DOM or in a namespaced Data object,) and I always have to document what I&#8217;m doing so having a standard place to park data is great. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that it stretches across an entire session?  I love it. Especially since it&#8217;s so straightforward when compared with cookies. I hate dealing with cookies. It feels like coding through a time machine. sessionStorage is much more modern. Convenience FTW.<\/li>\n<li>Of less interest to me on a practical level was <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohn.org\/blog\/web-workers\/\">Computing with JavaScript Web Workers<\/a>. It&#8217;s <strong>cool<\/strong>, but for the stuff I do? Not immediately useful.\n<p>Of course, now that I&#8217;ve said that, I&#8217;ll get some computationally expensive problem and will end up using them next week or something. <\/li>\n<li>JavaScript is represented strongly on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdesigndev.com\/programming\/30-most-influential-people-in-programming\">30 Most Influential People In Programming<\/a> list. Care to guess at the JS names included?<\/li>\n<li>Interested in the ongoing discussion of web fonts (the embeddable, fancy kind?) one of my co-workers, Colin Henson is working on a great series outlining the whole shebang. check out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awidernet.com\/2009\/07\/22\/web-fonts1\/\">Web Fonts part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awidernet.com\/2009\/08\/05\/web-fonts2\/\">Web Fonts part 2<\/a>.\n<p>We worked together on the redesign of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.CramerOnline.com\/\">CramerOnline.com<\/a> where we used <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.github.com\/sorccu\/cufon\/about\">Cufon<\/a> for headers, so it&#8217;s <strong>very<\/strong> topical around the office.<\/p>\n<p>Quick verdict on Cufon, btw? 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While many IT departments skipped over upgrading to Vista (I know of what I speak, we use XP at work), the lure of Windows  7 might be too much for them to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Which would mean IE8 would get a big bump.<\/p>\n<p>And I would dance a little jig. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d (gently) toss some links at you: I read an Introduction to sessionStorage a couple of weeks ago. I approve. 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