EnderMB

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by EnderMB 14y ago
You beat me to it! We've done well to get as far as we have with HTML5, JavaScript and everything else in-between. However, the web is not a suitable platform to develop on. Sure, it's very handy and there are some applications that work we
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Yahoo Graded Browser Support(yuilibrary.com)
1 points by EnderMB 14y ago|0 comments
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by EnderMB 14y ago
The biggest issue holding back Web Development isn't Internet Explorer. It's incompetent developers. I agree entirely with this post. Sure, coding a site to work in IE6 is a pain in the ass, especially when working with JavaScript-powered e
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Why Email is not broken(3sixty.co.uk)
2 points by EnderMB 14y ago|0 comments
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by EnderMB 14y ago
This almost seems like a browser problem for me, rather than a problem that developers should solve. If you use Firebug or the equivalent across the browsers it's very easy to see the "maximised" CSS, but surely a setting to do this when vi
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by EnderMB 14y ago
That's a poor argument when so many people express this opinion. If any developers get satisfaction working on the platform it's because they like the platform; again a personal preference rather than a solid reason for believing Apple's de
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by EnderMB 14y ago
How else do we come to a meaningful conclusion when posed the question "why won't iOS app developers leave the platform if the conditions are so poor" if it's not from assessing the motivations of those that build them?
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I am a developer (web dev by day), and I have developed and published apps that are on the respective marketplaces for Android, Apple and Blackerry. Regardless of my credentials, if you're relying on building apps to feed your family then I
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Are you from the US? If so, you can make money on the Android market quite easily. The idea that iOS is the only platform that can make money is a very dated idea, and one that never really had any merit in the first place. There's a reason
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by EnderMB 14y ago
The fact that so many of the comments replying to yours are quick to defend Apple says it all really. Developers will put up with more crap than they should when platform religion gets in the way. Sure, there are arguments against switching
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Absolutely. Even on my work machine (2.2GhZ, 4GB RAM) it loads within a second.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
YouTube isn't the only Flash video player though. What if you click a Vimeo link? What about a link on the BBC? It would be ideal if there were a good native solution for all videos, but I can imagine this to be quite a hard problem.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
It appears that no one who has commented so far has used Flash on ICS. I use Flash on my Galaxy Nexus, and it runs perfectly fine for everything I want to look at. Sure, it's rubbish for things like games and full-flash websites (the latter
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Those sound like nothing but excuses for being a terrible web developer. "First is cost. Even if it only takes 10 grand to make a site "functional" in x browser, rebuilding an application to fully work with ie7 does not. If it takes 15-20%
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Your computer is barely two years old, and doesn't reflect your internet connection. Most people are on far older, and probably far slower connections.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Statcounter isn't your site. Everyone should look at their own site stats and make the case as to whether legacy browsers should be supported. Regardless, for new projects we still follow the Yahoo Graded Browser Support baseline, like many
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I currently work with a number of large clients in the travel sector, and you'd be very surprised. Yes, it's restricting at times, but any developer worth their salt can write code that works in all browsers fairly easily. I've spent enough
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Don't get me wrong. I love photography on web pages, but the page itself is similar to so many modern web pages. It's full of JS, it crawls on modern machines and just doesn't look nice enough to justify the size of the page. The page barel
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by EnderMB 14y ago
When I see heavy web pages like this it makes me worry about the state of front-end web design. According to YSlow, the site came to 3.5MB, which is quite large when compared to the average home page. The site took at least five seconds to
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I love Chrome on Android, but for some reason it feels more "chunky" than the stock browser, which is completely different to how Chrome feels compared to Firefox and IE on the desktop. I still use the stock browser, mainly for the Flash su
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by EnderMB 14y ago
My mistake. I should have stressed that these forums started out with no user base, and some of them without an original site.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I've worked with a number of large forums with several million users before, and this is often viewed as the best practice thing to do when starting out. Sites like Reddit are more sophisticated than your average vBulletin forum, but I imag
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by EnderMB 14y ago
This comment is so wildly inaccurate that I'm calling bullshit. I've never heard of anyone who is "practically unemployable" because they didn't keep up with mobile or cloud computing and I'm willing to bet that you don't know any Windows d
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I would recommend ASP.NET and C#. The .NET framework is fantastic, Visual Studio is a fantastic IDE and C# is a great language to learn and use. If you don't wish to use ASP.NET then I would highly recommend Python and Django as a platform.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
The biggest stumbling block for me, and I imagine a lot of other users, is simply getting it installed and running. On Ubuntu I was able to do this within ten minutes, but if I choose to develop on Windows it's next to impossible to get a D
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I'm inclined to agree. If I were hiring and I saw this in a pile of CV's and portfolios I would probably ditch it and move on.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I also owned an original Galaxy. It was by far the worst phone I ever owned, and I vowed to never own another Samsung phone again. True to form, when the Galaxy Nexus came out I bought that. It's definitely streets ahead of the original dev
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by EnderMB 14y ago
A lot of developers believe the ICO only went soft because most of the UK governments own websites would not be compliant anywhere near the deadline. The cynic in me would not be surprised to see the ICO crack the whip once the government i
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Absolutely. I'd also be shocked if Jobs had left his post without leaving some handover notes and a couple of potential ideas for the future. Jobs seemed to have a good relationship with some of his employees and I'm sure that there is a lo
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by EnderMB 14y ago
A friend of mine used to work as a lawyer, and many of them used to get involved in mock trials, where they could test themselves on a complicated case and see how the other half does things. Although this isn't much different and an argume

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