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Is there a way to use HTML 5 to access local system hardware details? I'm looking specifically for attributes about CPU, RAM, Disk space, Video card information, Browsers available and plug-ins (with verson information). Ultimately, I am trying to determine if I can build a tool to check a machine for hardware requirements to run software but do so without needing to actually install anything on the machine. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks! Optimus Prime I don't know if HTML5 can help you but javascript can, more information on these websites. http://ajaxian.com/archives/jpu-javascript

In W3C TTML dfxp standard , a div element can contain begin , end and duration attributes. How to interpret the value of these timing attributes? Example: <div begin="00:00:22.0 end ="00:00:30.0"> <p begin="0s" end="1s">Hi,</p> <p begin="3s" end="5s">Hello</p> <p begin="5s" end="10s">there?</p> </div> When to present p elements? Any pointers to TTML spec/implementation would be helpful. The latest TTML spec is at http://www.w3.org/TR/ttml1/ Many of the timing semantics come from SMIL 2.1 . There are two parts to your answer: first, how do you compute the times for any particular content

I faced with task of building RPM packets from sources of c++ (but it may be any other language) project controlled with Git. And my question is where should I store ".spec" files for this task? Should it be stored independently of project main sources or be included in them? This task is complicated by the condition that I'm participating in different projects and use different version control systems: SVN, Git, Mercurial. So I'm trying to find most common and convenient solution without reference to capabilities of specific version control systems. If you participate in these projects

For instance class files use CESU-8 (sometimes also called MUTF-8), but internally Java first used UCS-2 and now it uses UTF-16. The specification about valid Java source files says that a minimal conforming Java compiler only has to accept ASCII characters. What's the reason for these choices? Wouldn't it make more sense to use the same encoding throughout the Java ecosystem? ASCII for source files is because at the time it wasn't considered reasonable to expect people to have text editors with full Unicode support. Things have improved since, but they still aren't perfect. The whole \uXXXX

After writing code that can be boiled down to the following: var size=-1; var arr=new byte[size]; I was surprised that it threw an OverflowException . The docs for OverflowException state: The exception that is thrown when an arithmetic, casting, or conversion operation in a checked context results in an overflow. I couldn't see how providing a negative size for and array length fits into the description given for this exception, so delved a little deeper and found that this is indeed the specified behaviour: The computed values for the dimension lengths are validated as follows. If one or