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WebKit dominance threatens mobile web standards – but who will care?

By tim, on February 9th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of the W3C CSS working group, has written a strongly-worded post describing how the “over-dominance” of the WebKit rendering engine threatens web standards.

Everyone loves the open source WebKit, so how is this so? The issue is a complex one. Those who make web browsers do not want to be tied

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Why Microsoft is scrapping the MIX conference

By tim, on January 24th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft is scrapping its MIX conference, according to General Manager Tim O’Brien:

we have decided to merge MIX, our spring web conference for developers and designers, into our next major developer conference, which we will host sometime in the coming year. I know a number of folks were wondering about MIX, given the time

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The mystery of unexpected expiring sessions in ASP.NET

By tim, on January 11th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

This is one of those posts that will not interest you unless you have a similar problem. That said, it does illustrate one general truth, that in software problems are often not what they first appear to be, and solving them can be like one of those adventure games where you think your quest

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Adobe discontinues Flash Catalyst, clarifies Flex and Flash Builder futures

By tim, on December 19th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe has told a group of Flex developers, invited to San Francisco for a special reconciliatory summit following the sudden announcement that Flex is moving to the Apache Foundation, that Flash Catalyst will be discontinued. Developer Fabien Nicollet was there and posts:

CS5.5 version of Catalyst is the latest version of Flash Catalyst. It

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Sencha’s Michael Mullany talks about Flash developers “flailing around for an alternative” and the Big App Rewrite

By tim, on November 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha, a company which creates HTML5 frameworks and tools for desktop and mobile browsers. Ext JS is aimed at desktop browser applications, while Sencha Touch is for mobile devices, currently Apple iOS, Google Android and Blackberry 6+. Sencha’s tools include Ext Designer, a visual application builder for

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HTML5 scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire weak, iOS 5 great, IE10 preview one of the best

By tim, on November 23rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The Sencha blog has a great series of posts on HTML5 support on various devices. This is of direct interest to Sencha because its products are JavaScript and CSS application frameworks, Sencha Touch for mobile and ExtJS for any browser. The latest post is on the Amazon Kindle Fire – and it is weak:

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Microsoft backs ECMAScript, dismisses Google Dart

By tim, on November 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has posted an article on Evolving ECMAScript on its IE Blog. ECMAScript is the official standard for what we call JavaScript. The company is proposing some minor additions “to address gaps in Math, String and Number functionality as well as Globalization.” It has also taken the opportunity to take a shot at Google,

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What next for Adobe Flash? Think runtime not plugin

By tim, on November 9th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe is stating that mobile Flash will no longer be developed:

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with

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Adobe MAX 2011 and the future of Flash

By tim, on October 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

The unstated theme of Adobe MAX 2011 last week was this: what is the future of Flash? The issue being that with HTML 5 ascendant and Apple wrecking the idea of Flash as an ubiquitous web plug-in, should Adobe be frantically retooling its design tools for HTML and apps, or does Flash still have

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Adobe Flash Professional to get HTML authoring features

By tim, on October 5th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have just attended a session on the future of Flash Professional, the designer-oriented authoring tool for Flash, here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles.

One feature that caught my attention is that export to HTML is coming to Flash Professional. Adobe already has a research project called Project Wallaby which converts .fla files

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