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Roger Johansson has posted Doctype Switching for IE8 in which he explores the idea that we should still use doctype switching but require a strict doctype with a full URL for standards mode. Its an idea I like too.

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Keynote to the Greener Gadgets Conference explains that designing for the poorest people in the world and trying to do the right thing led to the greenest laptop in the world - the XO laptop also known as the $100 laptop or the one laptop per child program. Battery (with processing) decomposes into fertilizer, 5% - 10% power consumption, no mercury, cadmium, lead or chromium, recyclable, 2.5 times the typical lifetime. The full length video of her keynote is also available.

PDF Accessiblity tutorial from WebAIM.

There are 50 times more Google searches on iPhones than other mobile handsets according to Vic Gundotra, Google’s head of mobile operations, in the Financial Times. And now I ask everyone out there why web developers are still playing osterich about supporting mobile in their web solutions?

WiseMapping BETA is a tool for mindmapping in the browser - no plug-in required.

The Blakes contribution to the Sound of Colour is pretty good - Magic. Kind of sad though.

Alastair’s Four Levels of PDF Accessibility provides a good overview on how you should be dealing with PDF documents on the web. His article Comparing Tagged PDFs from Office and Acrobat is also valuable reading.

Web Worker Daily has posted about the Emerging Communications Conference taking place from March 12 - 14 in Silicon Valley. More interesting still for today is the 25 minute Web Worker Radio podcast linked to in the article which discusses the revolutionary changes in mobile technologies which are going to change communication technologies. Voice Over IP (VOIP) only enhanced the old paradigm of the phone. New technologies are going to enhance telecommunication by including social networks, context, relationships, etc.