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by Qz 17y ago
The mouse is pretty good, but I think in many ways it has been abused as an interface device. Now, it's a slightly different story for Macs since you all went years with only one button, but for the rest of the world there were multiple bu
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by Qz 17y ago
Web Apps do have advantages over traditional desktop software -- what I'm trying to get at is that we can take what we've learned about web apps, and apply that knowledge to 'traditional' software to get desktop apps that don't suck. It do
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by Qz 17y ago
The iPhone illustrates exactly what I mean -- Windows Mobile is an example of trying to port Windows (and all it's associated cruft) onto the phone. It's better than it was, but it's still pretty terrible and a lot of that has to do with i
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by Qz 17y ago
I don't really like the precedent this kind of case sets.
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by Qz 17y ago
You're right, and it's insane that you can't drag a file to the browser dialog on windows. But that doesn't make it less insane that you couldn't drag a file directly to a webpage until just recently. I don't think that it's just browsers
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by Qz 17y ago
It's not about imitating a desktop application, but about having a usable interface with one. For example: Let's say I'm one of those wackos who keeps a zillion files on my desktop. I want to upload a picture to imageshack or whatever. The
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by Qz 17y ago
"...and the WHAT-WG has been busily standardizing, all of these things for quite a number of years now. " Quite a number of years too long. Let's take drag-and-drop -- how long has that been around? Decades? And it's only now that we
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by Qz 17y ago
I wouldn't be surprised that they're bigger as it's generated code. Still, it doesn't seem to me like flash apps are going to eat up all your available app storage space.
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by Qz 17y ago
Again, the Hello World App is entirely irrelevant -- the question is whether a real world Flash iPhone app will be substantially larger than a native iPhone app that does basically the same thing.
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by Qz 17y ago
That's funny -- at one point I attended a boarding school for people with 'behavioral problems', and every person there was incredibly smart. I call shenanigans on this idea that smart people get into less trouble.
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by Qz 17y ago
The language is leaving you behind on that one.
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by Qz 17y ago
I don't know which would be larger/smaller -- I'm saying that the size of a Hello World App is irrelevant.
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by Qz 17y ago
Making Hello World apps is an edge case for commerical software development frameworks. They're not optimized for it and there is no reason for them to be.
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by Qz 17y ago
It's an edge case. No one is going to be deploying a Hello World App to the App Store. Try comparing code size for similar applications and then we might have something to talk about. Otherwise, this is poor argument.
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by Qz 17y ago
They were separate points. Canvas is inherently more computationally expensive than Flash at this stage of the technology. As canvas advances, so does flash -- unless Flash dies off completely, Canvas ads will always suck more CPU cycles
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by Qz 17y ago
I still use fastmail because I don't like Gmail...
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by Qz 17y ago
Can I just say that QT is the most goddamn annoying software? If it wasn't for QT Alternative, I'd swear off the whole thing. Useless shit.
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by Qz 17y ago
>The question is why develop for the web at all if your apps only run in a certain browser? This is a mental block. You're thinking about it from a developer's perspective. He's talking about how to make the web better for users.
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by Qz 17y ago
Sort of but not really -- the entire article is in relation to the Apple vs Adobe debate. But it's about what's driving the conflict rather than the particulars of the current imbroglio. His analysis is pretty dead on.
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by Qz 17y ago
It's not about proving things to apple, it's about how other people perceive Apple.
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by Qz 17y ago
I would love for Apple to win a battle for open web standards. But that's not what they're fighting for, that's just the spin they're putting on it. They're fighting for absolute control over their market share, plain and simple. That th
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by Qz 17y ago
No user benefit. But there's nothing stopping advertisers from making crappy HTML5 canvas ads, and those are guaranteed to burn even more of your CPU cycles. So I call shenanigans on that argument.
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by Qz 17y ago
...and only because it serves Apple's interests for web standards to be open.
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by Qz 17y ago
People seem to get very hung up on the word hypocrisy. The fact is that Apple is calling out Adobe on the exact same things that they themselves do, and acting like they're Jesus for it. If you don't think it's 'hypocrisy' by the letter,
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by Qz 17y ago
Just saw this one: "Stewart tells Jobs: 'Chill, baby'" And above it was a picture of Jon Stewart making a dumb face. This one just defies comprehension. I mean I know what it's talking about because I watched the Daily Show, but otherwise,
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by Qz 17y ago
"The user may be the world's best neurosurgeon, does that mean that they have to learn about filesystems?" There's a bit of a divide as to what 'personal' computers are being used for. The original mainstream use was to create/edit files u
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by Qz 17y ago
What flash ads? Just use AdBlock.
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by Qz 17y ago
This has nothing to do with what's open and what isn't, it's about who controls what. Apple controls iPhoneOS, Adobe controls Flash. It's a prizefight. Don't get caught in a sucker punch just because you were paying attention to the fanc
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by Qz 17y ago
I don't think you understand what 'control the conversation' means...
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by Qz 17y ago
I'm just curious what sites people visit that flash is constantly crashing for them? I visit a fair amount of flash video content sites on a daily basis and I get a flash crash maybe once every two months? Firefox on Vista, latest version

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