This is great news for those who are swearing every time they are developing a new site and nothing works correctly on IE especially when adopting web 2.0 techniques…

Well according to the general Manager of Microsoft Dean Hachamovitch which he notes :

Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles. Thinking about IE8’s behavior with these principles in mind, interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is a better thing to do.

We think that acting in accordance with principles is important, and IE8’s default is a demonstration of the interoperability principles in action. While we do not believe any current legal requirements would dictate which rendering mode a browser must use, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue. As stated above, we think it’s the better choice.

The rest of this blog post provides context around the different modes, the technical challenge, and what it means going forward.

Ok so basically we are not going to move our heads up and down every time that we make different css files for IE and different css files for other browsers. So it seems that Microsoft actually listened to the developer community and has made a turn towards the greater ways of doing things… Till IE 8 is out we wait and hope that all this is true..
Read on…

Δεν είχα ακούσει για το drop.io μέχρι που πέτυχα ένα post για το service που σου δίνει. Είμαι σίγουρος οτι υπάρχουν πολλές υπηρεσίες στον κυβερνοχώρο που σου δίνουν τη δυνατότητα να αποθηκεύεις τα αρχεία σου Online και να μπορείς να τα κατεβάσεις αργότερα, αλλά μέχρι τώρα δεν έχω ακούσει καμιά υπηρεσία απο όπου μπορείς να πάρεις τηλ ένα νούμερο και να ενεργοποιήσεις το audio recording, απο όπου το κινητό σου θα είναι το μικροφωνό σου! Ότι καταγράψεις αποθηκεύεται αυτόματα στο drop σου (που έχεις ήδη δημιουργήσει απο πριν) και μπορείς να το κατεβάσεις σαν mp3, αργότερα απο τον λογαριασμό σου!! To μοναδικό όριο σου είναι το Limit απο το κινητό σου

Φυσικά παρέχει τη δυνατότητα να είναι password protect αλλά και να μπορούν οι φίλοι/συνεργάτες σου να δουν η να προσθέσουν σχόλια εφόσον το επιθυμεί ο χρήστης !.

κάθε drop έχει url της μορφής http://drop.io/username πχ http://drop.io/ropox

Νομίζω οτι είναι μια χρήσιμη υπηρεσία που ενισχύει το φαινόμενο της εποχής , το social networking, αφού τεχνολογικά δεν είναι κάτι καινούργιο, απλά η δυνατότητα να μπορείς να μοιραστείς στιγμιαία αυτό που θέλεις.

Did you like the idea of OpenID ? well i thought it was great but had some concerns about it as to how this will go over the web and how many will implement the idea. DataPortability architecture is something more than OpenID. its huge!

Imagine your personal data that are scattered everywhere on the web for different services and to be able from all those services to access your data without jumping from one site to the other. The idea is simple :

To put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, vendor and end-user community.

will this work ? i hope so, cause this will be a major milestone for web 5.0 and will initiate a new era for information sharing. Of course there is the question of who will own this data? the answer is again simple: you the user. the data will not be stored in one place but simply on several places and they can be shared from one service to another.. Facebook and Google and Plaxo have already joined the project and Scoble as well

i’ll be watching this space…