Why the italics on "Australian"? It's like saying "In the 2012 Olympics, an *African* won the 100m freestyle".

Just guessing, but owners of blocked content might notice a sudden drop-off in visits and have recourse for review. That is, a guilty-until-proven-innocent system, but still not the end of the world if you have legitimate content blocked.

This is the same billionaire who claimed the CIA was bankrolling the Queensland Green Party...

It's not about the hardware — even the latest builds of the major browsers have very little overlap in the API features and formats which they support. Go check out [areweplayingyet.org] to see the state of your browser with regard to HTML5 Audio.

@PlatinumVengeance, yeah, but if you actually followed the link, you'd see the source of that information is a (the?) Facebook engineer: Facebook engineer Bob Baldwin wrote, "I set the exact limit to something nerdy. Facebook … Face Boo K … hex(FACE) – K … 64206 – 1000 = 63206"

As an example, using one of the features heralded as "flash killing", HTML5 media (audio & video tags) works, but doesn't have cross-browser format support. This means that if you want to make sure that your audience can actually watch your video, or listen to your audio, you must transcode to 2 or more formats, and…

What a pointless and stupid idea. I think it's very narrow sighted of people to claim hate upon Flash. It has done more for the advancement of the web than most people realise. Plus, it is still necessary today, even with modern HTML5 browsers. The lack of cross-browser support for media formats makes it an absolute…

As @Wittyname said, Facebook is also essentially your address book these days — people you *may* want to contact one day, but not all the time. If you want to limit the people who see your stuff and whose stuff you are shown to 100, then make a list and put those people in it. Set your default privacy setting to show…

Can you share the link?

"Gefällt mir", is, translated literally, something like "[This] Pleases me". The equivalent "Unlike" button in German is "Gefällt mir nicht mehr" — "[This] pleases me no more"

Why do they even count the letters in a URL? It's a completely self-imposed arbitrary limit. Yes, i get that it was the length of an SMS, but I doubt that's the primary delivery method these days. Why not just use the power of HTML 1.0 and include hyperlinks with a user-defined label?

@o0RaidR0o - The idea that it is a right of every person to own their own house and land can not scale to anything even close to the world population, and clinging onto it is what causes such urban sprawl, fossil fuel consumption, overcrowded road infrastructure, etc, etc.

In Australia a few years ago, there was a shipping company (sorry, I forget the name), which made a partnership deal with BP. Since there are a ton of BP service stations around the place, they'd ship your goods to your nearest one and contact you so you could go down and pick it up yourself. It was billed as a way to…

I'm appalled that I had to scroll down this far to find one person suggesting *gasp* better public transport, or *double gasp* the notion of not living two hours drive away from your work. Add adequate cycling infrastructure into your comment and I'm with you 100%.

but surely they've had enough of oppressive regimes already?

You are right: this is not a viable means of transport by any measure, but I don't think that was the point of the exercise. If two German blokes with a kite can go across Australia using just wind power, imagine what else you could do if you put your mind to it...

@vinod1978: Even Vista sold 20 million units in the first month. What's your point?

@SewerShark: yeah, because it *worked*.

@saxgod: an interesting idea, but that's still not a solution really, is it?

@anexanhume: it's more like a ferrari which you can't drive if you sit in it.