Excellent mini-site on HTML5 features, including a library that makes detection easier Dive into HTML5.
Also… beautiful presentation.
Archive for April, 2010
Steve Jobs’ thoughtful/thought provoking Thoughts on Flash…
Apr 29th, 10
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Here’s a link to an Engadget article explaining in more detail why Apple is not fussed about having Flash on the iPod/iPhone/iPad platform…
Thoughts on Flash.
Of note:
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.
We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool. The third party may not adopt enhancements from one platform unless they are available on all of their supported platforms. Hence developers only have access to the lowest common denominator set of features. Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.
Frankly, it makes sense.
For some balance, here’s some thoughts from Miguel de Icaza on the restrictions on the SDK and a ZDNet article on the same topic.
Handy list of countries in CSV format
Apr 11th, 10
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Need to present a drop-down list of countries for a registration form? Here’s a CSV file of countries for you to enjoy. http://www.floresense.com/resc_center/?art=1360.
New OData publisher for BootFX preview available
Apr 9th, 10
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I’ve been working on some OData components for publishing BootFX entities using the OData standards. Visit BootFX to download it.
Under the hood this uses the WCF components for working with OData messages – what we have here is a custom provider that uses the existing BootFX ORM functionality and produces OData messages.
New iPhone 4.0 SDK bars use of third-party frameworks
Apr 9th, 10
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Mr Fitchett (http://twitter.com/MattFitchett) points out a change in the iPhone 4.0 SDK that bars use of third-party framework layers. The Register has an article on it – iPhone 4.0 SDK bars un-Jobsian code translation. The pertinent bit seems to be this:
“Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited)”
So we already knew there was no Java on iPhone (my view on this is that it makes apps run too slowly and stops the experience fromm using an iPhone from being as gorgeously fast and slick as it is), but does this have an impact on using something like MonoTouch or other iPhone application frameworks?