Mozilla Attacks

Faced with dwindling market share, Mozilla have done what any company would: alienating their most loyal users by announcing they would include closed-source digital rights management from Adobe in future versions of the (open source) Firefox. The fear was the browser would become irrelevant if they didn’t add support for DRM-tastic video streams from Netflix and others. Seems like the browser-maker was in a tough spot and made the decision with a heavy heart, if that helps?

As always for topics like this, Cory Doctorow has the best summary of the move, and its implications. The Free Software Foundation are thrilled with the news, as you might expect.

Gifchat

Interesting argument for why group video chat sucks, and why group animated gif chat is better. Speaking of gifs, if you’re having trouble keeping your collection together, try gifwit. Something tells us we’ll regret recommending that.

Bit by 8-Bit

Today in great Grantland writing, an excerpt from a new book about Nintendo and Sega’s 1990s rivalry. This piece takes a look at Nintendo’s evolution from playing card manufacturer to 8-bit sensation, and is a great reminder of the extent to which the company revived a dead industry.

Emulation Stimulation

Speaking of old computers, here’s how you emulate a BBC Micro in JavaScript, since you were wondering. Speaking of JavaScript, here’s a simple way to run JavaScript unit testing. We’ve run out of segues, but here’s a list of static site generators, and here’s a collection of web resources (thanks for the link, Tevko!).

Meanwhile, on SitePoint we looked at form label positioning, we listed the top five accounting tools for freelancers and small businesses and we explained how to build your own custom entities in Drupal.

DOSraki

Dropbox just announced webhooks, a way for apps to receive real-time notifications for changes within a Dropbox folder.

You know who definitely doesn’t use Dropbox? Game of Thrones author/genius/sicko George R.R. Martin. While it’s usually his characters’ questionable actions drawing gasps, he went on Conan O’Brien’s Conan show recently and repeated the well-known, but still shocking fact that he writes his ridiculously long, gripping books using WordStar 4.0 on DOS. No wonder the next book is taking so long.

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