Interesting Links for 3-9-2011

• Firefox 9 JavaScript performance will be improved by 20-30%
  (tags: javascript firefox performance)
• Google Correlate- draw a curve and they'll match it to the best fit!
  (tags: Google visualization correlation search)
• When Arthur C. Clarke met C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien
  (tags: CSLewis ArthurCClarke Tolkein space)
• Scottish government launches gay marriage consultation
  (tags: scotland marriage lgbt)
• Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964 … And Kind of Nails It
  (tags: predictions TheFuture ArthurCClarke communication)
• Living, breathing movie stills
  (tags: movies art)
• Outstanding Realistic Tire Sculptures
  (tags: art)

Dear website people, your solutions suck

If you can instantly forward me over to the mobile version of your site
when I access you over my phone then you could just have served me up the
mobile version of it at the same url in the first place.

If you can't manage that then the least you can do is put a link on each
mobile page which redirects back to the desktop version of the site.

Some sites manage this very well (Tumblr just works, for instance).
Frankly, in this day and age your content and your layout should be
entirely separate anyway and you should just be serving different CSS to
me.

It is ridiculous that I should visit a link emailed to me by a friend, be
shuffled over to the mobile site, save it to read later, and then be stuck
reading the mobile site on my desktop with no easy way back.

Worst of all being YouTube, where mobile URLs don't even display the video
if you view them on the desktop.

Please handle this better.

No love,

Andy

Nothing else you see today will be this awesome.

via a_pawson over on G+.