Monday, June 7, 2010 11:42:00 AM
html5, flash, adobe, apple
My blog post on Friday about
Apple's "HTML Showcase", which neither used a lot of actual HTML5, nor seemed to promote HTML5 as a cross-browser standard (it even requires QuickTime, apparently), received quite a bit of attention.
Even though the blog post was written as a response to questions about why Opera and other browsers couldn't show the demos, it partially ended up as a discussion about the viability of HTML5 as a cross-browser solution! That was not my intention, nor do I believe that it was Apple's intention to send that message with their "HTML5 Showcase". I am confident that HTML5 is not only future-proof, but also a necessary step in the evolution of the web.
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Monday, November 2, 2009 12:32:26 PM
flash, adobe, standards
The
Open Screen Project isn't new, but it seems to be part of a
pattern of doublespeak from Adobe. I understand why Adobe wants everyone to use Flash, but at least they could be honest about what Flash actually is, and what it is they are promoting.
Do they really think people are this stupid?
Open Web standards are already here, and don't rely on closed, proprietary formats (even if those formats are promised to be open some time in the future). If Adobe was really trying to open up, they would have promoted open Web standards instead.
If only Adobe would stop referring to proprietary, closed, inaccessible and
insecure technologies as "open"...
Sunday, November 1, 2009 6:48:27 PM
flash, government, security, standards
...
Adobe is
pushing for Flash to be used in U.S. Open Government initiatives. How proprietary, closed and inaccessible is supposed to be combined with "open", I don't know. I do know that the government should definitely not be promoting closed, proprietary, inaccessible,
insecure and harmful technologies.
Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:02:22 AM
ec, web, plugins, browsers
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One of the comments on the antitrust complaint against Microsoft I see a lot is: "So what if most people are using IE and aren't aware that there are choices? I'm using Opera/Firefox/Chrome just fine."
Sometimes we may feel that something doesn't really affect us. But does IE's dominance on the Web affect us even though it might not feel that way?
The answer is: Yes, definitely. But the problems with a monoculture on the Web extends beyond browsers! A single point of failure is a bad thing no matter what.
Browser monocultureThe recent
ActiveX security flaws in IE once again show us that a browser monoculture is a bad thing because those looking to infect people's computers will have a single target with a very nice return of investment. And those millions of compromised computers can be used for things like sending spam to the rest of us.
But it goes much further than just IE. One could argue that just about any kind of dominance of the Web is a bad thing.
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Friday, April 13, 2007 6:04:32 PM
flash, opera, adobe, wii
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Update 2009-09-01: A new version of the Internet Channel was
released today, and it has Flash Lite 3.1 (basically Flash 9) support. It looks like Nintendo and Adobe finally heard your calls for an update!
The old text of this blog post was as follows:
So Opera for Wii/the Wii Browser/the Internet Channel is finally out (that's our community manager Espen in the pic, by the way).
Reviews look very good, and people are commenting on how fast it is and how smoothly it operates. (Remember that you can continue to give the development team feedback.)
However, there is one thing a lot of people seem to be asking about:
Why didn't we update the Flash plugin to a more recent version?
The answer is simple: there is no way to do so. It is out of both Opera and Nintendo's hands.
(Update: Even if Adobe was to license a newer version, Nintendo still makes all the decisions. It is up to Nintendo to decide what the Internet Channel supports (or doesn't).)
The latest version of the Flash SDK (Software Development Kit) offered by Adobe is version 7, so that's what anyone who is not a Windows, Linux or Mac PC have to settle with. To support Flash on a phone or device, you have to license the Flash SDK from Adobe, and as long as they do not provide a more recent version, there is nothing you can do.
If Adobe had offered a more recent version, no one would have been more thrilled than us. It would have made more sites work, and that would lead to less frustration to our users.
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