The contents of the Recording Industry Association of America’s website was removed from public view over the weekend thanks in part to a link posted on social networking site Reddit.com. Hackers used a SQL exploit that the Reddit link directed them to.

The RIAA, infamous for pursuing music file sharers and calling for tighter controlls was, we assume left somewhat embaressed by the whole affair.

This does not come at a good time. Major record label EMI is pressuring the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) into a merger with the RIAA, as they both have not produced the results expected. Namely successful legal cases against people engaged in file sharing.

The IFPI estimates that the “big four” record labels – EMI, Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner – give approximately £64 million ($141.5 million) each year to itself, the RIAA and other associations.

Firefox Rendering Bug Fixed in Record Time – by Kevin Yank

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/12/03/firefox-rendering-bug-fixed-in-record-time

When Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.10 last Monday, the release notes
made it out to be a relatively minor update correcting, as usual, a
small number of security issues. As it turned out, however, the release
contained a nasty surprise for developers whose sites relied on Canvas.drawImage, a JavaScript feature of recent browsers that lets developers display images with effects like rotation and drop shadows.

Firefox 2.0.0.10 completely broke this feature, causing images to
disappear from sites that relied upon it. JavaScript effects libraries
like instant.js
suddenly stopped working, and developers had no way to fix the problem,
because, as far as Firefox was concerned, everything was working
perfectly.

http://minijoe.com/samples/tutorial/3_1_canvas_drawimage.html

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariJSRef/Classes/Canvas.html

http://canvaspaint.org/

http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot/

http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/

http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/textures.htm

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-canvas