Adobe’s love affair with its Flash format has come to an end. Oh sure, Adobe said they were just killing development on mobile browser Flash in favor of HTML5, but seriously, do you think, that they’ll keep working on Flash on the desktop for much longer? If you do, I have a nice, lightly-used bridge [...]
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Flash is dead. Long live HTML5.
November 9th, 2011 · Comments Off
Tags: Adobe · Business · Development · Internet · Network · Standards · Web browser
Google removing H.264 from Chrome does nothing to HMTL5
January 13th, 2011 · Comments Off
In some technology circles, you’d think Google was proposing throwing cats into a wood-chipper from the way some people are reacting to Google’s announcement that it was focusing its support on its own open VP8/WebM and Theora video codecs, and dropping support for H.264. This is not a step back for openness; any kind of [...]
Tags: Adobe · Apple · Business · Development · Entertainment · Google · Internet · Legal · Microsoft · Open Source · Standards · Video · Web browser
iPhone vs. Android: Five points of difference
June 29th, 2010 · Comments Off
Wow, the way people are arguing about iPhones vs. Android phones I’m having flash-backs to the grand old tech. flame wars of Macs vs. PCs; OS/2 vs. Windows; or vi vs. EMACS. Now, I don’t have a dog in this fight. I’ve used both iPhones and Android phones, specifically the HTC EVO and Motorola Droid, [...]
Tags: Adobe · Amazon · Business · Infrastructure · Linux · Mac OS X · Open Source · Operating System · SmartPhone
Patching the Patch: Trouble with the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard update
June 16th, 2010 · Comments Off
I was very pleased to see Apple’s new Mac OS X Snow Leopard patch this morning. It fixed numerous minor, but annoying problems with my Mac Mini and my wife’s MacBook Pro. It also cleaned up numerous security problems. That’s the good news. The bad news is it also introduced a serious security bug by [...]
Tags: Adobe · Apple · Applications · Internet · Mac OS X · Multimedia · Operating System
Linux-powered iPad-like tablets can’t come quickly enough
June 10th, 2010 · 4 Comments
Apple has long had a history of being arrogant. But, more often than not, they’ve been able to back it up by the quality of their products. Now, though, with Apple locking out Adobe Flash and Google Ads, not to mention their cute trick of setting up an HTML 5 demo site that only works [...]
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