Category: Commentary

It’s a been a while since I posted. What’s up? I’ve been working on a ton of stuff, and learning 10 new platforms it feels like. There’s a lot of excitement out there in both mobile development and HTML5 spaces. I’ve been deep diving into WordPress, learning CoffeeScript and TypeScript (I even started a Backbone.js …...

Update: Mike Chambers posted an explanation and clarification on where Adobe is headed with Flash and AIR. Update 2: TechCrunch picks up (part of) the narrative. I published an old post with my thoughts on the “Flash is Dead” thing that pops up routinely in media circles after anything happens to shake things up (like …...

Preface: I wrote this one of the last few times the Flash is dead thing made the media rounds, because it seems as though many participants in the discussion are simply missing the bigger picture, that the market for rich interactive work is splitting between app store apps (native applications), and desktop browser-based apps (websites), …...

I was recently asked my opinion on what makes a “native” app, and this was my response: It depends on how you split that hair. I think it depends on what platform level (hardware, OS, etc.) the particular user of the word native thinks that word applies to. It seems many use the word to …...

Warning: RANT ahead Steve Jobs is full of crap. I could actually understand and respect a straightforward admission that the Flash Platform is a threat to Apple’s iOS business model – which is the real reason Jobs won’t let Flash on the iPhone and iPad. That’s not even a very good reason – the App …...

Internet Explorer 6 is approaching its end of life! I did a quick Google search and found an “End of Life” movement calling for developers to abandon support on December 31, 2009 or January 1, 2010, but according to the Internet Explorer’s “Lifecycle Supported Service Packs” , it looks like support officially expires on July …...

In the debate over whether web browser makers should implement .eot font support for Firefox in addition to their support for .ttf files (and .otf), their is an alternative that rarely gets any mention – SVG Glyphs in an html context. This is already supported by Opera 10, Safari 4, and Google Chrome (all prerelease …...

I occasionally come across an argument against the implementation of embedded web fonts in web browsers and I wanted to comment on it. The argument is that embedding fonts in web pages should not be allowed, because either people don’t have the rights to use fonts that way, or because it’s too easy for users …...

Gah! I’d like to apologize to anyone who received a ping of a very early draft version of this post, or had to suffer through that unfinished thought dump or any of the hurried revisions in between. I’ll post the finished article in a little while. I hit the publish button accidentally on my way …...