Let's not forget... Twitter may have made the hashbang infamous, but it was originally championed by Google [1].

[1]: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/10/proposal-...

Page state and uniform resource location, I feel, are utterly different. Hash bang shouldn't be which user's tweets we're looking at, or which article on Gawker.

Google's examples show the hash bang after the query. Twitter put the query after the hash bang.

Good to see Kottke still churning out top posts after so many years.

But... a little disappointed that an announced redesign like this does not include support for responsive/liquid/mobile-first viewport width.

>> I made the reading column wider (640px) ...

Hard-coded pixel widths are not friendly to the proliferation of mobile devices and screen sizes these days.

It's not too bad on an iPhone viewpoint wise, but the fancy font rendering seems to be rendering blank spaces before it downloads the font or whatever it is doing, which is a bit odd.

That’s not fancy, that’s standard Safari behavior. Safari waits until the font is downloaded until it displays text. Some other browsers display text immediately and switch the font later. There are good arguments for both approaches.

He mentioned a mobile version, but I'm not seeing it.

Surprised no one has mentioned FastMail [1] already. Excellent service, reasonable price.

It's good to be a paying customer, so if something goes wrong there is a sense of accountability for the service provider to remedy the situation.

With Gmail and other free service providers, remember that you are not the customer, you are the product -- for advertisers.

1) http://fastmail.fm/

Also available here: https://gist.github.com/1406238

Yes, there's a good chance of such a release considering the history of CyanogenMod [1].

Too bad the update won't be straight from Google this time. One of the key benefits of the Nexus One for nearly 2 years comes to an end.

[1] http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

Discussed previously [1].

[1] https://qht.co/item?id=3026591 (yahoo.com)

What functionality do you require that only a native mobile application can provide?

One option is a mobile-optimized web application, with simple native apps wrapping your URL, one for each supported mobile platform.

Well, I can't tell more about the application but one of the requirements is for it to work offline. Doesn't it cut out the web app option? Otherwise maybe I can set up a local http server on the device?

There is offline local storage in HTML5 [1]. It is supported by recent versions of iOS and Android. A local HTTP server should not be necessary.

[1] http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html

Actually 5mb is not enough for our needs but if we put that aside, still there is a problem of where to load the Web App itself from when the device is not online?

Or this is where the native wrapper comes in?

Discussed previously [1,2].

[1] https://qht.co/item?id=2971971 (gutenberg.org)

[2] https://qht.co/item?id=2974212 (oreilly.com)

Piwik [1] is a great alternative to Google Analytics. It is free, open source software, and it is typically self-hosted.

While I do not think it supports Do-Not-Track at this time, Piwik does have configuration options to respect emerging laws on data protection and user privacy.

[1] http://piwik.org/blog/2011/03/piwik-can-be-used-in-complianc...

This is based on an incorrect assumption: ... no one is storing their frontpage layout data.

The Newseum has this covered for over 800 newspapers. A recent front page of the New York Times, for example:

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=NY_NY...

The NYT also stores their data... see my reply further up: https://qht.co/item?id=2801652