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Old news now. But you can already try and get a running version of Google Chrome OS booting from your USB stick.

You should try it out. Admire, and plan for the eventuality that Google Chrome OS will power lots of low-end and borderline between mobile and laptop devices.

Go Go Go!

The USB booting Google OS image is brought to you by: Hexxeh

I’ve been dealing with some development work lately that surrounds Flash and languages such as Chinese and Japanese.

One thing I’ve had to think about and attempt to tackle is the fact that to embed chinese or japanese fonts. It means embedding a 5mb+ file into Flash.

Even if internet speed is being ramped up by the second, this is still a burden to your average user. It would most likely mean waiting around for 2 minutes or more just to get the fonts downloaded.

So what can be done about this?

We must have a solution one day.

At the moment scouring through the internet yields no result.

There are work-arounds. Like embedding all textual data as images, but it’s not ideal, and it’ll only work to some extent as images are still data intensive. In a site that contains a lot of textual data, this isn’t going to work either.

XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5

Well I guess this will simplify programming for the web in the future with only 1 set of html left