Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Let's call this an "in case you missed it" edition of Browser Bits and Bobs, since I've been disgustingly busy and haven't posted anything in far too long. But for those who have been preoccupied by events outside the tech sector (MLB postseason, impending financial armageddon, talking chihuahuas, etc.): this ...
Tags: ajaxian, chrome, chromium, flash, fluid, google, html5, mozilla, skyfire | 6 Comments »
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
It's not often that I get to repudiate completely my most recent blog post a few days after publishing it. But anyone who is not yet convinced that the answer to the question of whether web apps are an endangered species is an emphatic "no" should run, not walk, to ...
Tags: adobe, apple, cocoa, flash, ria, sproutcore | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Opera Mini 4.1, with a number of bug fixes and tweaks, has been released.
TechCrunch with an article on Mozilla's "stealth data project", which aims to collect statistics on web usage from Firefox's 170 million strong user base. Mozilla CEO John Lilly provides some clarification.
Mozilla joins the LiMo Foundation, which develops ...
Tags: adobe, android, bits and bobs, flash, limo, mozilla, opera | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
If nothing else, Microsoft's prolonged attempt to acquire Yahoo has added some zest to the tech news echo chamber. The ongoing saga has provided seemingly endless fodder for mainstream news outlets and blogs to speculate about the financial merits of the deal, the strategic implications for Microsoft and Yahoo's allergic ...
Tags: adobe, flash, microsoft, silverlight, yahoo | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
A post by my Prism partner in crime Mark Finkle sent me spiraling back in time along an interlocking blogathon of attempts to nail down the term Rich Internet Application. Intense speed-reading of so many mammoth posts can scar the psyche, so let me paraphrase them and save you the ...
Tags: adobe, ajax, flash, flex, microsoft, prism, ria, silverlight, standards | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
With the announcement of the first official release of AIR, all eyes have been on Adobe's ambitions in the Rich Internet Application (RIA) space. But Adobe also has far-reaching plans to add new features to its Flash runtime with big implications for the web, both inside the browser and out.
Content ...
Tags: adobe, drm, flash, open source, p2p, tamarin, voip | 10 Comments »
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Well, actually he didn't. When CNet initially reported on the last Apple shareholder meeting, his comments about Flash on the iPhone, buried in a list of bullet points, seemed innocent enough:
Turning back to the iPhone, don't expect support for Adobe's Flash technology anytime soon. The full-blown PC Flash version "performs ...
Tags: apple, flash, iphone | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
With the official release yesterday of Adobe AIR and Flex 3, it's worth taking another look at the question of what these products mean for the evolution of the web. Criticism of Adobe for the proprietary nature of its technology is hardly novel. A widely read piece by Ted Leung ...
Tags: adobe, air, flash, flex, open web, rants | 19 Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
There's a reason that they call them rumors. The other day, a lot of sources (including Just Browsing) were pointing to a Gear Live article claiming that Flash support for the iPhone web browser is just around the corner. Ryan Stewart, who works for Adobe, doesn't rule out the possibility ...
Tags: flash, iphone | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Support for Adobe Flash is high on the list of iPhone browser improvements I've been yearning for. According to Gear Live, the wait is nearly over. As rumors go, this one is pretty plausible, as is the author's speculation that the launch will be timed to coincide with the release ...
Tags: flash, iphone | 1 Comment »