not_an_alien

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I work with the real world.

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Comment · 16 years ago

I can't wait for sites that jump in your face with unnecessary animation and sound AND render incorrectly depending on browser when doing so.

Comment · 16 years ago

So if people want to post a video of their cat in their blog, they must encode it in 2-3 different formats, and use an HTML5 video player with a fallback to a Flash video player ... as opposed to a single video file and a single Flash player.

Unless those people who own cats are all Richard Stallman impersonators, I don't see how that makes any logical sense.

Comment · 16 years ago

Or maybe a loud and clear signal for people to stop assuming they're doing it just because of their beta HTML player.

Comment · 16 years ago

Interesting that the people whose business model actually rely on video distribution (Hulu, YouTube) have opinions that are the opposite of the common user consensus in Redddit or Hacker News ("Flash is dying", "HTML5 is ready", etc).

Comment · 16 years ago

1) Write something is so unfathomable wrong that prompts people to respond, correcting you. 2) Write about something that appeals to people's ideologies, and be sure to go against the most popular creed. Examples: "HTML5 is bad"; "Apple is Evil"; anything about how some aspect of programming should be done

Comment · 16 years ago

It's still a lie.

Comment · 16 years ago

Adding to that the fact that their clever semantics is making it sound better than it is (claiming '4x more pixels' - which is true, but it's just 2x the resolution)...

It's the best mobile device screen out there, hands down. They really don't need to do that.

Comment · 16 years ago

This article should be renamed "the end of one-design-fits all." Or maybe, we could rename it "double your design staff."

Pretty much spot on. I don't like when people say that one change for a new kind of device will dictate how everything else will be used. Yeah, mobile devices with touchscreen capabilities are here to stay, but that doesn't mean desktops are going away. Designing for the common features between the two only is doing the users a disservice for anything that could benefit from additional UI features.

Comment · 16 years ago

So your point is that lying is OK as long as it goes on par with your agenda?

Apostrophes are hard [PIC] blogcdn.com

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Comment · 16 years ago

No, because Google is not /restricting/ it. They're using the advanced features, not being bouncers deciding who to let into their party or not based on the color of their shirt.

Comment · 16 years ago

From a guy who did many of the examples for chromeexperiments.com and has been a pretty active promoter of HTML5/standards via three.js and other projects:

"I'm happy I rejected doing anything for this apple/html5 page. They should rethink their policy and give credits to the authors."

Source: http://twitter.com/mrdoob/statuses/15417138430

Comment · 16 years ago

Shows the hypocrisy of Apple when they're saying you shouldn't need a plugin, but then force you to download a new browser even if it's not necessary.

Comment · 16 years ago

I think it’s a stretch to say that Jobs is “deciding what content people can view on the iPhone and iPad.”

That made me stop reading the article right away.