The HTML Strict standard does not allow for the target attribute to be applied to a tags. This means that you can no longer force a new window to open with valid strict HTML.

One of the reasonings for this seems to be that “It should be up to the end user, not the web site, to decide if a link should be opened in the same window, a new window or a new tab; web developers shouldn’t force such behavior on people.” (Reference: Robert Nyman)
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I see a lot of paid-for live support tools being released lately, a lot of them supporting ideas I wanted years ago but that didn’t. One of them being able to actually respond and reply to live support using popular instant messaging protocols, such as AIM or MSN.

Using the AIM wimzi library, I have customized my own live support tool to communicate with my AIM screen name. Works decent. Figured it could be expanded to do much more. Naturally, I doubt I could redistribute the AIM wimzi library as open-source but I could use the ideas behind it for AIM.

I like two options the best, flash (sleek, fast, mostly mainstream) and JavaScript (easy to implement, mainstream). If the software detected flash, it would use the flash version, else use the JavaScript version as a fall back. If someone doesn’t run JavaScript nowadays, they are overly scared of security, or they need to update their browser.

The package would also include things I don’t think many live support packages include, such as integrated with a VNC program for screen sharing. It would be nice to have an advanced free and open-source solution out there, but this is a big project and I don’t see myself tackling it soon.

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The website would allow the user to upload a source image (perfect, uncompressed and ideal image) and various other images that are variations of the source. Such variations could be hue, brightness, contrast, compression, editing etc. It would then output some sort of rating or statistics showing how similar it is to the source.

This idea spawns mostly for a means of rating video quality by taking screenshots of of HD uncompressed video and comparing them to the screenshots of the compressed video. This could come in handy for people who record videos using a camera. You could take certain screenshots from the public trailer, and match that frame with your video. Get an idea how good your video is to the real thing.

This code could also be used in my previous idea, Social Image Crawler.

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The idea of this spawns from http://www.tineye.com where a user uploads or linked an image and tineye will search their database with the best match. It then outputs the closest matching images to the one you uploaded. However, this site would be based solely on social websites and places where people can upload art and or images of themselves. The idea behind it is so you can find people using fake pictures, pictures of you, or stolen artwork.

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http://www.onlinestatus.org/ no longer works with MSN, and this stinks. Hopefully, I can make an online status indicator that works with MSN and all the other major IM providers. It would use open source libraries and be similar to how meebo basically connects and checks for online status. Users might have to add a certain MSN to their buddylist until it will work for them, the site wouldn’t be like a “am i blocked” site but more of one for websites to show their users if they are on MSN.

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