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I was a little nervous to look at iPhone for Web Developers from the Apple Developer Connection; with a splash as big as the iPhone, it seemed inevitable that they’d cut corners when it came to support for open standards. Surely the Use Standards and Tried-and-True Design Practices heading was a tease. But then… wow… The first surprise was support for the tel: URI scheme
then again, apple does NOT hate the web on the iphone. these are incredibly well done
But on the web, Apple still suck. The new galleries are Korea-sized half-megs of Javascript, designed to look and feel like computer software rather than native to the web.
enthusiastic +1
this is an interesting intermediate step until you can have kml markup directly inside html, and be rendered natively by the browser.
The purpose of the Guild is to further professionalize the front-end programming discipline within the Netherlands (and possibly in other Dutch-speaking regions of the world; but I’m not going to do that without some kind of local initiative. I’m busy enough as it is). The most important (or at least most visible) part of this professionalisation will be our certification. We want to issue certificates to good, standards-aware front-end programmers, so that non-specialists can easily see whether a certain person knows what he’s doing. (That means we have to decide what knowledge and skills a good front-ender needs; more on this below.)
Separating out the bozos of web dev is long overdue.
uhm??
no more WML, CC/PP and other phone nonsense. it took years too long due to incumbents. i fully expect walled gardens to crumble within 2 years
Compared to our sample of servers across the Internet, Microsoft IIS features twice as often (49% vs. 23%) as a malware distributing server.
finally some market share gains for IIS!
about time we killed abominations like xml-rpc and ws-*
When the tool spits out some bundle of shining Deployment-Ready Code Artifact, do you get something that can be mashed up, styled, scripted, indexed by search engines, read aloud by screen readers, read by humans, customized with greasemonkey, reformatted?
Springtime means conference time, which means it’s silly season on the web again. Adobe introduced Apollo, their latest attempt to recreate the web in their own image. Apollo is based on Adobe’s own markup language, Adobe’s own runtime, Adobe’s own graphics and animation framework, Adobe’s own video and audio codecs, and Adobe’s own developer tools. You can do many things with it, but “you may not sublicense or distribute the Software. … You may not modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based upon the Software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software. … You may not install or use the Software on any non-PC device or with any embedded or device version of any operating system.” It requires at least Windows XP SP 2 or Mac OS X 10.4.
nice smackdown on all the adobe / ms nonsense this week. and i am actually working on a side project with mark now 🙂
Gregor J. Rothfuss 