Announcing “HTML 6”: the new version of the Web

2015-04-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the immediate availability of the new version of the web — HTML 6 — pronounced “HTML Sicks [sic]” with the motto “HTML 6 is sick!”. “We concluded that the previous version of the World Wide Web’s standards suite, HTML5, has exceeded its

Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
(hmm, I see it's April 1st today, but this is not a joke, just a serious post...) In April 14th, in Tel Aviv (Google's building), Avi Kivity - of KVM and OSv fame - will present Seastar, a new C++-based framework for writing super-efficient but highly complex and asynchronous server applications.

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sat, Mar 07, 2015, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about Hebrew in markup: But I could not figure a simple way with any of those to get decent control of bidi. Or specifically: * Make the whole document RTL * Make various paragraphs LTR I guess I need to override some styles. With asciidoc I could

Re: Is Beersheva really becoming a high-tech powerhouse?

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015, Steve Litt wrote about Is Beersheva really becoming a high-tech powerhouse?: Hi all, I read the following article, which says that Beersheva might become a high-tech powerhouse: When I was a kid, the popular belief was that *Haifa* will become the high-tech center in

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html The LRM and RLM characters do not have to be invisible. I agree that when I'm editing markup I prefer to see all the control characters. If your markup interpreter supports HTML entities, then LRM is lrm; and you can guess what the RLM is. Even

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Dotan Cohen wrote about Re: Hebrew in markup: If your markup interpreter supports HTML entities, then LRM is lrm; and you can guess what the RLM is. Even more useful is the Right-To-Left Embedding character which is HTML entity #8235; Very nice! I tried this magic

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Does emacs already support the relatively new UniCode isolate characters LRI, RLI, FSI, PDI? These are perfect for separating markup text direction (which is typically L2R) from the flowing text. Dov On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Wed, Apr 01,

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:49:34 +0300 From: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il 15 years ago, I approached the same problem in pure-text documents (such as emails) by inventing my own conventions (embodied in the bidiv program) which automatically determines each paragraph's direction in

Re: Hebrew in markup

2015-04-01 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:57:13 +0300 From: Dov Grobgeld dov.grobg...@gmail.com Cc: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com, Linux-IL linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Does emacs already support the relatively new UniCode isolate characters LRI, RLI, FSI, PDI? The development version in the Emacs Git

Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il writes: Seastar is an open source (http://www.seastar-project.org/) library. It is based on the concept of futures (like in Node.js, just implemented in a much more efficient way). Part of the talk will also introduce futures, how Seastar implements them

Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il writes: Seastar is an open source (http://www.seastar-project.org/) library. It is based on the concept of futures (like in Node.js, just implemented in a

Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar

2015-04-01 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi Nadav, Will it be video taped? Slides made available? Thanks, --Amos On 2 April 2015 at 05:53, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2015, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about Re: Back to the Future with C++ and Seastar: Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il writes: