As an engineer, I consider it my job to automate myself out of a job. It's a sisyphusian goal, but a healthy way to think about your duty to the company and leads to a good kind of laziness.
This is the perfect example to point people to when they ask why the company shouldn't just maintain an internal fork or write its own version of an open source project.
Actually contributing the code you write is helps _everyone_.
Google has not shown that it is able to competently handle copyright complaints. YouTube copyright take down notices happen all the time for legitimate content, chances are a similar ratio of false positives for site content.
1. Microsoft is in the ad business.
2. With ad and analytics firms claiming its okay to ignore the DNT header from browsers that default it, I can't think of a better way to kill the spec.
Argh!!! This is precisely the problem when you give developers a designers' problems. It is not possible to engineer your way around every problem.
In this specific case, the font is blurry, unattractive, and lacking any character. It looks like someone tried to autotraced a photocopied fax of a carbon copy.
It's an interesting experiment to be sure – but this is not, in anyway, a solution to … anything.
They key part of this research is that newspapers failed to personalize advertising. That, more than anything is why their online ads aren't worth as much.
If there's a workable solution for supporting codecs in gecko via a system license, why not use the same method on the desktop? Why fragment the engine?
The elephant in the room is that this is exactly what Apple is doing with iCloud and Google is moving toward with the fabled gDrive.
Dropbox is never going to have the integration that these two companies can offer on their OS's.
Sure, I can get to my Dropbox files on my iPhone, and I can even use it to sync in some programs, but it's not even close to the synchronization that iCloud offers.
They've had a page like this for a while – I've joked before that this must be the page they give to interns on their first day.
Aside from it's generally bad color scheme, the code is semantically wrong in several places (unescaped `&`, each poster is a `div` with a `ul` inside of it etc…)