In answering a reader question about Flash today, I linked to Adobe’s November press release and I commented: Granted, Adobe says it’s abandoning Flash ‘only for new mobile device browsers while still supporting it for PC browsers.’ This is still a painful statement because [in part] … the distinction between mobile devices and PCs is [...]
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“Mobile” vs. “PC”?
Posted in Apple, Hardware, Microsoft, Opinion & Editorial, Web on 2012-04-24 | 22 Comments »
Reader Q&A: Flash Redux
Posted in Apple, Microsoft, Opinion & Editorial, Reader Q&A, Software Development, Web on 2012-04-24 | 5 Comments »
David Braun asked: @Tom @Herb: What’s so wrong with flash that it should be boycotted? Have I been being abused by it in some way I’m not aware of? Also,does HTML5 have any bearing on the subject? I’m not saying it should be boycotted, only that I avoid it. Here’s what I wrote two years [...]
Talk Video: Welcome to the Jungle
Posted in Concurrency, Hardware, Software Development, Talks & Events, Web on 2012-04-23 | 10 Comments »
Last month in Kansas City I gave a talk on “Welcome to the Jungle,” based on my recent essay of the same name (sequel to “The Free Lunch Is Over”) concerning the turn to mainstream heterogeneous distributed computing and the end of Moore’s Law. Perceptive Software has now made the talk available online [EOA: the talk itself starts six [...]
Links I enjoyed this week: Flash and HTML5
Posted in Friday Thoughts, Opinion & Editorial, Software Development, Web on 2010-05-06 | 1 Comment »
These are the two best links I’ve read in the wake of the Flash and HTML5 brouhaha(s). They discuss other informative points too, but their biggest value lies in discussing three things, to which I’ll offer the answers that make the most sense to me: What is the web, really? “The web” is the cross-linked [...]
“Readability”
Posted in Apple, Opinion & Editorial, Web on 2010-04-10 | 7 Comments »
If you like reading just about anything on the web, including my articles, in a pretty nicely rendered plain format with no ads or other distractions, you might want to try out arc90’s Readability. All you do is drag a bookmarklet to your bookmark bar, and then on any article-like web page you can click [...]
