Bug or feature? There's something about Firefox that's been bugging me for a long time now and, more than being a mere inconvenience, I feel that it is a design decision that Mozilla took that runs counter to the spirit of the web as an open platform. At first sight, the feature I'm talking about seems harmless [...]

Introducing Open Country Codes: easy to use ISO 3166 country codes for your apps. Why are some things just much harder than they need to be? Finding a current, easy-to-use data source for populating a country selection box, for example. Most of the clean country data out on the web is second-hand, having at one point [...]

The SWF format is now totally open. Rejoice! This is big: Adobe is removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specifications as part of their new Open Screen Project 2008. When Mark Doherty emailed me to tell me about his post on Adobe's Open Screen Project 2008, I wasn't expecting such an [...]