dmerrill wonders, "Isn't the concept of meeting as a physical occurrence an anachronism?"
I don't think it is. A face-to-face meeting is extremely high bandwidth. Text and audio can't compete. Video conferencing is closer, but it's still rare. Online interaction is nice, but it's not as rich as the real thing.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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