Episode 20 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience).
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- SitePoint Podcast #20: YouTube Deep-sixes IE 6 (MP3, 41.4MB)
Episode Summary
Here are the topics covered in this episode:
YouTube to Drop Support for IE6
- YouTube to Drop Support for IE6 (SitePoint)
- YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye (TechCrunch)
Microsoft Azure Pricing and Availability
The DiggBar Diggs Its Own Grave
- DiggBar Commits Career Suicide, Starts Redirecting To Digg Homepage (TechCrunch)
- This Week In Tech #204: Taste Like Dirt (TWiT)
- DiggBar and Digg Short URLs (Digg)
Web Fonts Roundup
- Type sellers, web fonts, and Typekit (Nice Web Type)
- .webfont Proposal 2 (Tal Leming)
- Why we support the new .webfont proposal (TypeKit)
- Web Fonts — Where Are We? (I Love Web Typography)
HTML 5 is a Mess
- Comment by John Allsopp (Jeffrey Zeldman)
- HTML 5 is a Mess (Bruce Lawson)
- HTML 5 is a Mess: Now What? (Jeffrey Zeldman)
Search Marketing Spending Up, Expectations Down
- Search Spend Expected to Grow Despite Lack of Confidence (SearchEngineWatch)
Host Spotlights
- Patrick: Insurance In Plain English
- Brad: Send your name to Mars
- Stephan: Fever and the Future of Feed Readers
- Kevin: The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack, 1Password, KeePass, PwdHash, MagicPasswordGenerator
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Kevin Yank is an accomplished web developer, speaker, trainer and author of Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL and Co-Author of Simply JavaScript and Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! Kevin loves to share his wealth of knowledge and it didn't stop at books, he's also the course instructor to 3 online courses in web development. Currently Kevin is the Director of Front End Engineering at Culture Amp.