not_an_alien

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by not_an_alien 16y ago
You're probably right, but in all honesty, if you didn't know Jakob Nielsen before, you probably have never worked with usability testing.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
I frankly think it's how it should be. He's really good in testing and analysis. Focusing in the solution is almost like an entirely different matter.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Doing that would be acknowledging that there's a problem - and this is something that will never be done. Remember, their devices are magical and Apple can never do anything wrong.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
This may become a problem with the Android market too -- in fact, I already see it happening sometimes, when searching for particularly common application words. I hope that Google/Android system implements some better ranking algorithm in
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Apple is lazy.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Great degradation (meaning that the animation doesn't work in my current latest-but-non-beta FF 3.6.3, but the hard image switching still does).
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Really? http://www.craftymind.com/guimark2/ So less features, slower adoption, and worse performance will kill the Flash Player. Interesting.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
No. They're saying there's a bunch of inane people who think Adobe is against HTML5 and that HTML5 is the death of Flash, while it isn't.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Funny, because you're able to create SWF content using only free, open source software, including their own compiler. I don't believe your point holds. Do you ever do any Flash work?
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GUIMark 2 has been released: Compare HTML5 and Flash performance(craftymind.com)
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
'Similar', but not the same - it's only changing the color and not actually displacing the bitmap. Big difference.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Canvas is by all means a CPU hog and much slower than software-mode Flash. http://vimeo.com/10553088 But hey, Flash is dying, etc
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Any way to tweak the auto-update features for Flash? I want to have the debugger version installed instead, or disable it altogether. :/
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
I guess that's my issue with it. I, for one, am impressed that this can all be done with CSS3, that framerate is pretty good, that image rotating and scaling has great quality, and all that. But with the guy taunting the "no flash!" thing s
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
So after a lot of work, using poorly documented features that are not consistently adopted and by using very specific versions of very specific browsers that should amount to near 10% of the user audience, I'm able to view an animation that
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
I won't blame you for the confusion, as the naming is mixed up, but "Flex SDK" is the command-line Flash (SWF) compiler. It's free and open source. It's used to create SWFs or SWCs. It's the same compiler the Flash IDE has built-in. I creat
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Yeah, that was funny. I'll blame nerd rage.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Hardware decoding of video content has been available since FP version 10, released in October 2008. I'm not making stuff up. I actually have my history of gripes with Adobe, as if I've been working with their software for more than a decad
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
> It is open enough for their purposes. Ok great, so Flash is also "open enough": fully published specs, anyone is allowed to use the format (creating, playing) without royalties. SWF is more open than h264. > He never said it was
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
* If the compiler being open means Objective-C is open, then Flash is open as well: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK * We're talking about mobile applications like games being good enough, not desktop applications
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
If they're based on rollovers only, no. But again -- the argument is bogus because it makes it sound as if EVERY Flash content relies on rollovers alone (they don't - click or dragging is the norm) and that it's a Flash only problem (it's n
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
* Flash websites will have to be rewritten because it relies on 'rollovers', which is not part of Apple's 'revolutionary' touch interface: overblown for two reasons - a) few stuff will have to be rewritten (many videos show desktop Flash co
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
The fact that the repeats the rollover crap makes it sound as if they're really trying hard on rationalizing. Just say it's a business decision, Apple. Stop pretending you have the consumer in mind.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Apple enables hardware-accelerated video decoding, Flash Player beta now has faster video rendering on Macs.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Awesome read. I love the guys at that website, their blog posts are always insightful.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
It's Admob ad traffic, not "web traffic". Very important distinction. Still, hooray for Android! This is just the first of many passes Android will do in the future.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Why would I want to? I bet their bounce rates are through the roof, and their return traffic approaches nil. And because you wouldn't want to, nobody should? There's a reason why Flash, and Flash websites, exist. Think about it pretty h
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
It took them what, 10 years to start proposing what Flash has done in 5. And considering... * The plans for the standard to be completed will still take around 10 years * Flash can move at a much faster pace in development * Flash penetra
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
No, people use Flash because of what it can do as a platform. As "development environment" goes, Adobe's own tools are subpar and easily surpassed by third-party environments, many of them free. Wanting Adobe to create tools that output to
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by not_an_alien 17y ago
It does not validate, but it does negate the whole "I'm forced to use Adobe stuff" point people like to spill around. That has been moot for a while and people continue to press on it.

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