My letter was published in the Financial Times today. Here, for posterity, is the letter in full…
Search neutrality keeps the internet dynamic
Published: Financial Times July 20 2010 02:15
From Mr Adil Allawi
Sir, Google’s Marissa Mayer (“Do not neutralise the web’s endless search”, July 15) is right to say that government regulation will stifle innovation in a [...]
Does anyone find this worrying:
http://www.vimeo.com/9194146
It is a very cute and cool advert for Salsa and it jumps out of your screen. For a while I have been blocking Flash in my browser just because of these take-over-your-screen adverts but that was only because they annoyed me. This advert goes a few steps past annoying to [...]
Last month I reported bug 547654 in Thunderbird where scrolling caused display problems. First a QA engineer passed it to the right group, then the programmer of the affected code asked me to repeat the issue. Now the bug has grown to a full scale blocker and actually assigned to me! I have written a [...]
A while back Apple asked me to improve the Arabic system font in Mac OS X (which is now available in OS X 10.6). The requirements were daunting to say the least. The font had to support the full Unicode Arabic range, presentation forms and all. This meant adding some 1500 glyphs to my font [...]
Al-Jazeera is one of the more popular Arabic web pages, so any browser that claims Arabic support should be able to render it correctly. However, here is what happens on a Mac (click on the picture to see it full size):
Three problems each with a different reason.
1/ Jumping Content: this is the web site’s fault. [...]
I am at Didacta, the big German Education trade fare, this week. having been at shows from Arabia to the UK it is obvious that there are huge opposites. First, the British education market and the German Education market are poles apart. Here, in Didacta, there are stand after stand of educational engineering products on [...]
I have been a Google junkie for some years - never venturing too far from that familiar blue page. But, I was setting up a friends PC and I wanted to install the free version of AVG anti virus software. I had the default Windows XP with the default Windows browser that defaults to Microsoft’s [...]
