The de facto coding scheme of Internet data is still 7-bit ASCII. But Unicode … is increasingly being supported in standards and software. Will English still be the dominant tongue on the Net in five years?

I think this idea is OnLifeSupport until further notice.

Between January and February, Internet Explorer dropped a significant 0.60 percentage points and Firefox slipped 0.18 percentage points. Chrome jumped a sizeable 0.41 percentage points to 5.61 percent of the market while Safari fell 0.06.

Asked to name other developers that we’d see on Steam, Valve’s Newell demurred. But Steam’s popularity means that as Valve goes, so go other gamemakers. Steam on Mac means many more games on Mac.

To say that Steam is important for the viability of OS X as a gaming platform would be an understatement.

The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360.