yesterday i implemented something really pretty awesome over at antville.org: international domain names!*
שלום.antville.org سلام.antville.org
(i hope the spellings are ok.)
thanks to punycode and java 6’s built-in java.net.IDN class it was almost too easy.
this way, even (most) special characters do not bother anymore:
te§t.antville.org ♡.antville.org
of course, there are still some details to be worked out – e.g. i have no idea yet why kaˈtʃɨɲski] does not behave** – and it could be that we still will bump into some even nastier bug.
however, it is a feature i have not seen so far at other site hosting services, have you?
* well, to be precise it should be international host names but that does not spoil the fun. ** also antville’s current rendering algorithms may rain on the parade: simply putting the idn’s unicode url here results in incorrectly rendered output, that is why i have to use the punycode url inside a manually entered html link element.
André Igler: Warum der Opel-Deal von Magna völlig irreal ist. (Via Blumenau.)
wtf: punycode for idn break html comments in firefox?!?
carrie fisher and her stunt double tanning under the Tatooine sun.
oh, big trak! i had one when i was a child, but i almost forgot about it. what a cool start to program.
Every time I see you falling I get down on my knees and pray.
A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades.
Und wenn die Welten untergehn, So bleibt die Welle doch bestehn. Das Radio erzählt Euch allen, Was immer Neues vorgefallen. Und funk ich hier ins Mikrophon, Hört man im Weltall jeden Ton. Und bis in die Unendlichkeit, Erfährt man jede Neuigkeit. Wir funken bis zum Untergang Ins Weltall kilometerlang. Kurt Schwitters: Schmidt-Lied (1927/28).
How The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to write better headlines.
«Die Zeitungsbranche brauchte keine 15 Jahre, um ihr 400 Jahre altes Geschäftsmodell zu zerstören. Chronik einer Selbstverstümmelung.» – nzz folio 10/09 (thema: die zeitung).
gab es eigentlich jemals zuvor eine zeit, in der sich medien so obsessiv und verzweifelt mit sich selbst beschäftigt haben?