Its such an irony today, guys/girls around me are more busy in updating their status and adding friends on online Social Networks than actually meeting those friends and saying 'hello' or a 'bear hug' gesture in person!

Gmail started with another of the Online Social Networking stuff called Buzz! which would help people to stay in touch through their Gmail interface.

Aren't there many websites who do it already, Facebook, Orkut, u name it. According to Wikipedia there are about 178 notable and popular such sites! ,List of social networking websites

I have accounts in 3-4 most popular of those Websites. What compels me to write this is a statement of a very good friend of mine who said

Unlike u I'd go to great lengths to meet friends

Thanks for reminding, I'm sorry. And that is not sarcastic.

PS: Such a paradox, this post of mine would be an update in Google Buzz or somewhere else!

It was my first introduction to the HTML and web development, my first hosted page, http://www.geocities.com/ruturaj_v. Which over few years had become something like this

Unfortunately, today I got a mail from Yahoo saying that they just don't love geocities anymore and would be knocking it off on 26 October 2009.

As it goes down, It will take down numerous of other websites that had spawn on its platform, some of which just because they couldn't bear the heavy costs before year 2000.

It was there ... hanging, if Google was getting into the Browser market, now its almost a reality with Google releasing features of its browser in a comic strip.

Baptised as Google Chrome, It has some of these features

Google Chrome Features

• Each tab is a process
• Each plugin has its own addres space
• New JavaScript Engine V8 (Virtualized)
• Tab is the primary UI (so no tabs in browsers, but browsers in tabs)
• better autocomplete in the Address bar !! (Firefox 3 ?)
• Tab page (9 most visited pages, Opera has a similar feature of quick links)
• A Privacy Tab ! (nothing saved back to browser, readonly)
• Sanboxing of Tabs' memory (no reading from other tabs's process, forget writing)
• Google Gears in-built

You can enjoy the comic strip here. Or read more.

In Tim Berners-Lee's Blog entry, Reinventing HTML, It seems W3C failed to implement the new XHTML standard amongst the developers. Thanks to all easy-go browsers, which will not validate tags, attributes, etc...

456bereastreet.com suggests some of the changes required in the new HTML version, I'd say version 5.0. Some of the points mentioned are.

• New attributes that will make forms easier to validate: required for input, textarea, and select elements, maxlength for textarea elements.
• The reappearance of the start and value attributes for ol and li elements respectively.
• Stricter, XHTML-like syntax: make lowercase required for all element and attribute names, make quoted attribute values required, require all end tags that are currently optional.

Changes required for HTML v 5.0

• Browsers shouldn't render anything if there is any major error in Document, or atleast give a warning
• Direct Form validation support: no need of Javascript for trivial validations
• A "TABLE" like tag that works as well as "TABLE" for layout and positioning, Developers are sick of making CSS work for all browsers

Sometime back I'd made a blog entry OS-Browser, Internet… thats all!! on Wordpress.com's blog, about a browser would be all of the OS, rest all the applications would be on the Web!!

Even today some of the standard applications that we have on the desktop are available on the web...

Manchester United get a new website, http://www.manutd.com is now truly the XHTML compatible style..

Too bad, the site's homepage wasn't the same in Firefox !