I’ll admit I have not taken a great deal of direct notice in the development of the HTML5 specification by the WHATWG. I have read over the specification from time to time, that’s about it. It’s not that I’m not interested; it’s been a question of resources and time. However with the W3C HTML working group announcing the opening up the process of the draft development process and the merging of their current effort with the HTML5 spec, this has brought the process back onto my radar again. Okay maybe a little belatedly, since this happened in late March (2007).
I had a play with Second Life when it was still in beta (way back in the pre version 1 days in 2004). At that point it was interesting, a nice concept, you could just build things, do a little scripting, the client was a little flaky at best. But I could see potential, one problem, no residents (users in Second Life), it was hard to find your fellow users. It was seen at that point as little more than a fancy IRC. But business called and I left Second Life behind to focus on my First Life.
Today (4 May 2007) at 13:15 the music died! The last track played out and finished on the Pandora player and it stopped streaming music to my browser. I knew what had happened. I refreshed the page, and I was locked out, simple.
