The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater rehearsing ‘Uptown,’ 2009, New York (© STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)

Media Source Extensions (MSE) is a popular way to provide streaming video on the web.

nikitonsky: Here’s a trick: many fonts have a feature called “tabular figures”. If you enable it, all digits will have the same fixed width. Helps you avoid jumping in cases like this, and align columns in tables (thus “tabular”)

Female pyrrhuloxia perched on cactus plant, Texas (© outtakes/Getty Images)

Remember deep linking? That is, if you’ve ever done computing/science history. Deep linking was a nefarious act and for ultra brief periods (in some places) making a link (like this) was link stealing.

Basically, homepage links were a–ok, but deep links were bad, really bad, because customers skipped the front and arrived at the exact (product) page. Businesses died overnight (the hypo theory).

Deep linking is smartphone marketing lingo now and very much desired. My hunch is that something analogous to taking a screen shot will be the modern equivalent of that unworkable controversy.

nikitonsky: Do not wrap numbers, especially price

Hippopotamus mother and calf, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia (© Nature Picture Library/Alamy)

nikitonsky: Tab order. It’s a thing

This document describes a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes over

Internet communications and applications have both environmental costs and benefits. The IAB ran an online workshop in December 2022