Comments on: I’d rather be a Woz.

By: Katrina Payne

Katrina Payne — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:41:29 +0000

right, I also missed this in the article. As my previous comments likely made obvious.

By: Katrina Payne

Katrina Payne — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:38:38 +0000

heh--well, in that case, you will need to note that HTML5 has no stylistic view options to it either. As CSS3 is a completely different other component.

Of, right, and WSI, CGI, ASP, JSP and all that? Well, those are not part of HTML5 either. So HTML5 cannot "talk" or interact with other computers on the internet...

Heh! Right... and we also have HTTP which is ALSO not HTML5...

Oh, right and PNG, GIF and JIFF image formats are also NOT part of HTML5's spec, from my knowledge either.

You know, if we remove DOM3, Javascript, WSI, CGI, ASP, JSP, HTTP, CSS3 and various image compression schemes from HTML5, I agree, it is pretty useless.

By: Katrina Payne

Katrina Payne — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 02:30:39 +0000

In the section: "HTML5 is not a Software it is a Markup language." You made a slight blunder.

You DO realise that Actionscript IS based on the ECMAscript standard, right?

Now--let me think for a bit... what other possible names has ECMAscript been released under? Well... lets see... we have Actionscript (given here)... livescript (antiquated name) and ooh... right... JavaScript. Keep forgetting the whole ECMAscript standard came from a Netscape project with a trendy name. As well--everything trendy back then was getting named after caffeinated products.

Also, like Scotland is a beautiful country with many majestic hills to see, Flash is, likely a good program (I have not looked into its internals' workings), I still apply the same memetic phrase here:

DAMN SCOTS! THEY RUINED SCOTLAND!

As no matter how super mega special awesome your product is... if nearly everybody using it is a complete twit, it negates any functionality it could have ever hand. And, yes, I know fully well, HTML5/DOM3/CSS3/ECMAscript has just as likely of a chance of getting "DAMN SCOTS! THEY RUINED SCOTLAND!" status as Flash.

My thoughts on Flash: It will probably only start to get good for the same reasons people actually use PDFs, Postscript, Openphotoshop (or whatever somebody online was ranting when he said "open sourcing flash will hurt Adobe"... I think he may have been smoking crack personally) and what not: they will open source it, and people who know what they are doing will make something to view and interact with the format that makes me not want to punch babies any more than usual.

Compare Adobe Acrobat about a decade ago... to some of the much more sane viewers out there today.

Even without the FlOSS, if somebody could make a competent plugin, that required paying, I would probably be okay with it again.

My Flash Wishlist
* Options menu for the plugin
* Ability to disable annoying parts--or selectively enable them... this should be in the plugin itself... not something I require a browser to load
* Load monitoring. Just so flash can see if it is starting to get unresponsible in certain spots, and maybe disable those uses of the plugin. If I could get a dialog saying, "In X Page, usages of Flash is making it slow and unresponsive: What action should I take?"
* Accessibility Controls. You'd have a lot less people championing HTML5 if these got added.
* Spydering abilities for Flash Plugin based stuffs.
* A button to smack a developer upside the head, when a flash based website stops me from going directly to the entry in it I want. Such as a specific text dialog,or animation sequence or something. As there are mechanisms to actually do this--and get around a lot of other complains people have on Flash. A button to smack them upside the head for NOT doing this would be a lovely feature.

Now, I am aware that not all entries on this list are not going to get checked off.

And I am also aware that Flash is not going to disappear from the web. I mean, if COBOL, Visual Basic 5, PHP Nuke and Perl 4 (a little bit less so, thanks to EPO) still show up out there, there is no reason that Flash will disappear.

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By: aQuib

aQuib — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:29:56 +0000

Thank you for speaking the truth.

By: ebot tabi

ebot tabi — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:49:30 +0000

Hey nGrinderJP nice one, i think Apple should better think of something, i mean their Tech image is really getting bad

By: wesdusell

wesdusell — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 06:41:23 +0000

Wait… who is lazy?

By: Filippo Gregoretti

Filippo Gregoretti — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:31:03 +0000

Finally a post which makes sense…
respect

By: creatino

creatino — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:46:14 +0000

Great article thanks. Had no idea about the patenting now it all makes perfect sense. There's always something behind the spin Apple marketing puts on things.