So I may be a bit biased since I was there for most of these events, but I found this image, created by feltron, to be very cool.
It mentions in the post that CNN asked him to create a visual record of the site’s last 13 years. I would love to have a higher resolution version (think poster size) but don’t know if anyone will bother to create it.
TechCrunch already has a story this morning on our numbers from yesterday. I have now participated in 4 Election cycles with CNN.com, each time breaking records. Of course today will likely upset the numbers from yesterday but it is still great to see us do so well.
It is wild to think back on how far we have advanced in covering this event. From the 1996 Election where our results system was a Webmaster huddled over his computer and Election terminal to now where a full team of developers has built and supported a system feeding both TV and the web.
I have the benefit of leading an outstanding team that made this look easy. Kudos to all of them for the hard work and preparation for last night.
Record Traffic Day At CNN.com: 27 Million Uniques, 276 Million Page Views
So will we really still be waiting for HTML 5 to get ratified in 2022? Of course the browsers will be supporting the new version before then and we are starting to see the advancements creep into browsers already. They likely will fully support the spec ahead of its official launch but this means that interpretations and more critically implementations can be slightly different and those left building the websites are stuck doing what we do now, accommodate all the variations in how browsers handle the code.
Ian Hickson, the editor of the HTML 5 specification, recently outlined the time table for HTML 5 and, even assuming browser manufacturers embrace HTML 5 when it reaches the final draft stage, that puts HTML 5’s widespread adoption at 2012. Worse, the final proposed recommendation won’t be released until 2022.
HTML 5 Won’t Be Ready Until 2022. Yes, 2022. – monkey_bites
Today Google released Chrome a new beta browser that puts Google in direct competition with Microsoft and Mozilla.
My first impression (and consistent with other comments and developers) is just how fast it renders web pages. Now it still has its issues and we are working to identify those across all our properties, but man does it seem to out perform my other browsers in my casual tests.
I can’t wait for more testing to appear online.
I came across another blog post on Technology Evangelist that sent me over to Twitterholic and the following graphic:
Interesting mix in the top 100 – with many 1 way conversations mixed in among the more typical conversational users. Also good to see that CNN creeps into the top 10.
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