Comments on: New York Times switches from WPF/Silverlight to Flash and AIR for Reader 2 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1424-new-york-times-switches-from-wpfsilverlight-to-flash-for-reader-2.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1424-new-york-times-switches-from-wpfsilverlight-to-flash-for-reader-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-131448 Tom Thu, 14 May 2009 17:04:50 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1424-new-york-times-switches-from-wpfsilverlight-to-flash-for-reader-2.html#comment-131448 Reporting is not bad, overall. Oh sure, there are better individual sources, and there are particular sections of the Times that I actively avoid because they're so damned inaccurate (business and technology). But compared to the effort it'd take me to piece together an equivalent, I'll take "the rough draft of history," however bad it is, over "figure it all out yourself from primary sources." It was always surprising that the Times agreed to WPF in the first place. Mac-heavy reporters, Mac-heavy readers ... Reporting is not bad, overall. Oh sure, there are better individual sources, and there are particular sections of the Times that I actively avoid because they’re so damned inaccurate (business and technology). But compared to the effort it’d take me to piece together an equivalent, I’ll take “the rough draft of history,” however bad it is, over “figure it all out yourself from primary sources.”

It was always surprising that the Times agreed to WPF in the first place. Mac-heavy reporters, Mac-heavy readers …

]]> By: Josh http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1424-new-york-times-switches-from-wpfsilverlight-to-flash-for-reader-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-131381 Josh Wed, 13 May 2009 23:16:10 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/1424-new-york-times-switches-from-wpfsilverlight-to-flash-for-reader-2.html#comment-131381 Online, offline, AIR, or WPF, the reporting is still crap at the NYT... I can understand the Mac kiddies not wanting to install Silverlight. I have the same feeling about Quicktime. You want me to soil my PC with an Apple product? Not likely... Online, offline, AIR, or WPF, the reporting is still crap at the NYT…

I can understand the Mac kiddies not wanting to install Silverlight. I have the same feeling about Quicktime. You want me to soil my PC with an Apple product? Not likely…

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