With the introduction of HTML5 is the introduction of browser support for the <canvas> element. This is an important introduction because unlike the canvas in Flash and other non-HTML web application frameworks, the drawing here can be accomplished via javascript (or potentially another client side scripting language) and is based on the HTML event model.
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Last November, Sun announced the creation of the OpenJDK project and community, which stemmed from it’s initial claim in May 2006 that it would GPL Java.
From what it looks like, Sun is basically making due on it’s promise. Richard Stallman claims that this is one of the biggest contributions to the Free Software Foundation, ever.
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Revolution OS is a documentary from 2001 that “tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software model and Microsoft to create GNU/Linux and the Open Source movement.” It is available and downloadable from google video.
Revolution OS basically documents the history of free software, open source and Linux. Featured in the […]