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The human being if designed by HTML coders is a post from: The Inquisitr

There are a lot of really interesting and fun projects that abound which bring the electronic world of the Web into our real world. Of them this one has to be one of the more cool ones out there.

The idea behind Carpet Art is to allow you to generate patterns made out of ASCII and/or images existing in the Internet and then have a carpet made from that generated code. The process usually takes about a month and use natural wool and/or linen to create the carpet.

Prices depend on the size of the weaved carpet with the standard size 5.5 square meter carpet ringing in at the cash register for approximately $2,841 USD (€1,999 Euros). Shipping costs will run you in the neighborhood of $400 USD outside of Europe and $140 USD in Europe.

photographs courtesy of the Carpet Art Gallery / hat tip to \/\/ork

Can I have that page code as a carpet please? is a post from: The Inquisitr

Just as one thinks that Microsoft has begun to understand the whole idea of listening to its customers and is turning that battleship around it shows that maybe it’s still deaf in one ear.

There’s been a lot buzz on Twitter about a movement to try and get Microsoft to backtrack on its decision to use the Word rendering engine for HTML based email in Outlook. So far some 22,000 plus Twitterers have heeded the call and visited fixoutlook.org to register their vote on this.

The reason for this kind of passion is because in many people’s opinion the Word rendering engine sucks the big one when comes displaying HTML and that it has no place in a modern email client. However Microsoft is fighting this tooth and nail.

As Ed Oswald writes over at The Technologizer

“We’ve made the decision to continue to use Word for creating e-mail messages because we believe it’s the best e-mail authoring experience around, with rich tools that our Word customers have enjoyed for over 25 years. Our customers enjoy using a familiar and powerful tool for creating e-mail, just as they do for creating documents. Word enables Outlook customers to write professional-looking and visually stunning e-mail messages,” said the Outlook team in a blog post Wednesday.

The company also goes on to say there is no standard for HTML in e-mail. It does not address however the evidence that Word rendering is faulty, as shown by Fix Outlook’s comparison of an email in Outlook 2000 and 2010. The rendering in 2010 is frankly horrid.

It would seem that Microsoft has turned a deaf ear but that could turn out to be a big mistake. Anyone remember what happened when they had the same attitude about Internet Explorer? That saw the creation of Firefox which has gone on to be the biggest threat Microsoft has seen to any of their products.

Already Microsoft is facing stiff competition on the email front and this decision to stick to their guns on using the Word rendering engine could end up being another one of those tipping points.

Microsoft shows once again how it doesn’t listen is a post from: The Inquisitr