The machine-readable web has come a step closer thanks to open sourcers in the Drupal community.
Drupal 7 has received sign-off – finally – adding the ability to embed semantic meta-data into sites using the open-source content management system.
That means Drupal 7 is adding native support for the W3C’s RDFa – a set of XHTML attributes that are designed to turn human readable data into data that’s readable by machines. That could be data such as a location’s map coordinates. RDFa is already being used by Google (see here).
In a statement …

Mozilla has pushed out another beta of Firefox 4 – this time one with over 1,000 bug fixes.
Other changes include a simplified bookmark sync set-up, ‘polish’ to the add-ons manager and the usual bout of speed, performance and stability enhancements.

Download @ mozilla.com/firefox/beta/
For those who demand it be installed properly a PPA is also available

WordPress 3.0 RC2 is now available for download; this means that final version could be released any day now. This release will mark a new milestone in WordPress history, with several exciting new features including: multiple sites, custom menus, custom post types and a new default theme.
So what is WordPress?
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not …

Google has announced a new API available for public use. It is currently in the Google Labs. It enables website owners to use custom fonts specified in the Google Font library on their websites using nothing but a Javascript include and a stylesheet.
Google has been working with a number of talented font designers to produce a varied collection of high quality open source fonts for the Google Font Directory. With the Google Font API, using these fonts on your web page is almost as easy as using the standard set …

A company called RevShock has been quietly working on a piece of code that may put an end to the infamous Flash/Adobe vs. iPad/Apple war. The library, called Smokescreen, is written in javascript, and is compatible with most browsers out there, including mobile Safari. Smokescreen works out of the box, without the need to install anything on the iPad.
In a nutshell, the script is able to convert Flash animations into HTML5 and JavaScript. The primary focus of the code was to allow Flash-based ads to work on mobile devices such …

Slippy is a HTML Presentation library written with jQuery, it takes a html file in and plays it in any browser.