Monday, February 21, 2005

Music industry sues 83-year-old dead woman

http://tinyurl.com/5mrla

As the EFF put it, "RIAA Sues Dead People" (okay, so if you hadn't heard of the movie The Sixth Sense that might not be so funny...)

"More than a month after Walton was buried in Beckley, a group of record companies named her as the sole defendant in a federal lawsuit, claiming she made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free on the Internet under the screen name 'smittenedkitten.'"

Sunday, February 06, 2005

Interesting Discovery Regarding the Link Header Element

One of those "lightbulb"ish moments...

<link rel="next" href="yourpage.html"> will actually load the "yourpage.html" into the browser cache and send "yourpage.html" as part of the Server Variables along with the script name of the container page. I knew this element used with rel="next" was supposed to speed up the browsing experience for the user and now I know why.

As the documentation states: "User agents may choose to preload the 'next' document, to reduce the perceived load time"

Firefox does recognize this element with the "next" attribute, but Internet Explorer 6 does not.