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Why “open always wins” isn’t the point 19 Aug 2013 | 12:52 pm
I’ve disagreed not infrequently with John Gruber over the last few years, particularly over his constant reflexive, largely evidence-free position that “native is always best” or “web based applicatio...
Constraints and opportunity 6 Aug 2013 | 05:54 am
All engineering is about constraints. Gravity, materials, CPU speed, amount of memory. Modern computing platforms have, in comparison with just a few years ago, let alone a couple of decades ago, alm...
Not Real Programming 5 Aug 2013 | 09:58 am
As I recently reflected, a paper by Tim Berners-Lee about the World Wide Web for HyperText ’91, the then peak HyperText focussed conference in the world, was rejected. Who could be so short sighted? W...
Web design and development meetups in Australia 2 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
In the last decade or so, the number of meetups and groups for Web professionals to connect and learn has increased amazingly. But locating a group we’ve found can be tricky. Some are on meetup.com, o...
Has the marriage of Web and TV finally been consummated? 31 Jul 2013 | 05:01 am
A week or so ago, Google announced (and started shipping) their Chromecast device, a simple $35 Dongle you plug into any HD TV, to give it Web capabilities. It can stream video and audio from the Web....
You keep using that word “performance” 23 Jul 2013 | 07:07 am
Every few months, indeed, it seems with ever increasing frequency, the topic of the performance of web technologies comes up. Most recently, Drew Crawford’s much lauded, detailed piece “Why Mobile We...
Appcache, not so much a douchebag as a complete pain in the #$%^ 19 Jul 2013 | 10:23 am
A little while back, Jake Archibald wrote infamously (and anthropomorphically) that the HTML5 ApplicationCache is a “douchebag“[1]. Mindful that this is a word freighted with troubling significance, i...
20 beautiful examples of “Snowfall” style interactive storytelling 19 Jul 2013 | 06:05 am
Yesterday an article on Medium, Snowfallen, caught my eye. It’s about a technique for presenting longform writing online, by embellishing it with integrated multimedia elements, gorgeous photography, ...
WebRTC now in Chrome Beta for Android 18 Jul 2013 | 06:16 am
Following Blackberry 10’s support for WebRTC, Chrome beta or Android now supports webRTC, as do Firefox, Opera and Chrome for desktop (and Firefox for Android though not as yet Firefox OS it would see...
Not Ready For Primetime? 18 Jul 2013 | 05:25 am
One of the questions we hear about ‘HTML5’ time and again is “is it ready for primetime?”. Technologies are always evolving—last decades’ hot hot thing is last year’s solid enterprise solution, and t...
