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The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) was formed in June 2002 with a mission to "facilitate the international coordination and collaboration necessary for the development and deployment of the tools, systems and organizational structures necessary to enable the international utilization of astronomical archives as an integrated and interoperating virtual observatory." The IVOA now comprises 17 VO projects from Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Membership is open to other national and international projects according to the IVOA Guidelines for Participation.

The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) organises two Interoperability meeting per year. The second meeting of 2009 is being hosted by the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), and will be held in the main building of the the ESO Headquarters, on November 9-12 in Garching bei München, Germany.

The goal is not that all implementations should pass all tests. V8 set out with that intention and we learned the hard way that sometimes you have to be incompatible with the spec to be compatible with the web. Rather, we want Sputnik to be a tool for identifying differences between implementations.

Insult, berate and make fun of any company that offers you something like a “sharing” site that makes you push stuff in that you can’t make copies out of or which you can’t export stuff out of. They will burble about technology issues. They are fucking lying.

Now that the hardware and software have come into sync on the unibody models, Apple's compliance with HDCP -- a necessary but appalling condition of the content companies that deliver the HD movies and TV shows -- is beginning to close out the 'analog hole' and cause real aggravation for laptop owners with legitimate use cases.

It's interesting to see how different browsers handle responses with various status codes. For example, Safari 3.1.2 returns a "kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork" error for status code 100 and Firefox 3.0.1 offers me to download a "Untyped Binary Data" file.

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Recently the company has started to realize the enormity of the mistake it has made in not treating its information with the care and respect it deserves.

It doesn't seem significantly different from the limited interoperability achieved between OpenSim and Second Life last month (there's still no transfer of assets and inventory items), but it's another step towards promoting larger interoperability between Second Life and other virtual worlds.

Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We’ve seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I’ve collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn’t always the culprit for your CSS woes.

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If you’re a site like Amazon, and you’d lose a lot of money when even 1% of the browser market can’t use your site, I can see wanting to code for this case: you’d want to fall back to server-side code for more or less everything. If you’re a smaller-time developer, though, the marginal benefit from spending another hour on server-side code (another branch in the tree) seems pretty tiny.