As much as I like all the brand new shiny features of HTML5/CSS3, I think it’s going wrong. Maybe I don’t get it or something but now it looks like all the new features need to be defined 3 or 4 times. Once for Webkit, one for Mozilla, a normal non-browser specific one, and for the new Internet…
Introducing “Social Stream”, a jQuery plugin which I wrote to display my digital social stream of information using different service APIs.
Currently supported at Twitter & Tumblr. I’ll be adding others as I go along.
Anyone using JavaScript coming from Flash or back from HTML/JS to Flash then back will notice that unlike ActionScript 3.0; we don’t have socket() support.
There are extensions for FireFox, but this already limits you to users having that extension. Really not practical. With ActionScript 3.0 I can talk to an SMTP server [HELO anyone? Get it?] and send an email no PHP / SS Lang needed.
Obviously we have intermediaries and can publish an SWF file or a PHP file to relay to sockets, but it’s just a hack. ECMAScript needs to be fully adopted by JavaScript. We went backwards with JS 1.8, why go backwards when we can take on JS 2.0.
FAIL + Mildly upset.
I’m really glad I was lazy and didn’t want to read an entire confusing manual on wordpress to make a simple blog (I’ll probably still have to learn it, just delaying the inevitable). Tumblr is hot $#%! right now.
(via ronworkman)
I noticed this last week, #WIN :P
What is a motion tween? It’s a quadratic equation that is CPU intensive, to a relevant degree. If a Web site [or any application for that matter] is of a fixed size or forced to be a fixed size [ie: <div style=’width: 500px; height: 500px;” … then can’t we calculate in advance a tween’s “steps” into an array of plotted points for the motion.
OK, variable sizes, .em’s etc.
How about setting up profiles for various screens? Steps:
OK speed. Is this faster or slower? Reading arrays or calculating quadratic equations? Demo when once I’m not swamped.
While I’m testing and adding scripts my site will not be really “Visible”. So holdup :P
After reading Arthur Debert’s [the author of BulkLoader an amazing Flash package for loading assets with a complete line of callbacks/listeners and asset types] blog post titled “The Web does not need Flash” I had to disagree on a few points between messaging on a meetup list regarding the iPad / lack of Flash and reading the aforementioned post.
What everyone is really missing is the fact that JavaScript and ActionScript [which is the backbone of Flash] are both ECMAScript. Unfortunately JavaScript does not, and will not for a very long time; adhere to its standards as an object oriented and reusable language able to perform chained animations and create structures that can be extended by other developers. What really is behind HTML5 and CSS3? Well, let’s not forget JavaScript.
Ergo; I disagree with not needing flash. As an expert in both OOP ActionScript 3.0 [OBJECT ORIENTED] meaning REUSABLE CODE, and an expert in jQuery / JS [Procedural, harder to reuse and sloppy] I disagree. Try doing a series of custom animations. Also look at browser support.
More people actually have Flash than JavaScript enabled. Also, JavaScript uses more memory, very memory intensive. People complain about Flash hogging memory but what they don’t really see is that the Flash Web sites which they are going to are actually animations, games, slick portfolio sites etc. Try replicating the same in HTML5, the all encompassing term for a plethora of emerging technologies.
HTML5 / CSS3 / jQuery [doing a good job for its purpose though] = FAIL. Jobs just does not want to lose a huge amount of money to people creating Flash apps, adding the link/apple touch icon to their home screen and then cutting him out of millions and millions of dollars.
Having worked with tons of teams on tons of project types and tons of approaches, I’ve noted that the people that say that HTML5 and CSS3 are the way of the future, obviously haven’t ever made a website in Flash. Try creating something engaging with animation in JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3. It’s slow. It’s also all procedural programming. Flash is here to stay. Every project has it’s own solution. HTML5 / CSS3 is not some final end all solution for all projects. The web designer is extinct. The web DEVELOPER that knows multiple solutions for various “problems” is the future.
Everyone keeps talking about HTML5, CSS3 – but what about JavaScript? That is what really provides the means the create animation and core features that Flash provides. It isn’t even Object Oriented adhering to ECMA 4.0 [as actionscript does] because of arguments that Adobe would have a monopoly on the core specs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#ECMAScript_Harmony
“… ECMAScript Harmony will include syntactic extensions, but the changes will be more modest than ECMAScript 4 in both semantic and syntactic innovation. Packages, namespaces and early binding from ECMAScript 4 are no longer included for planned releases….”
This is completely politically and economically based and driven by the explosion of “Web Standards” which ironically JavaScript does not adhere to, while AS 3.0 does.It is quite clearly a matter of market domination and he will fail when a hacked browser comes out with Flash enabled for the iPad / and on April 11th Adobe introduces CS5 with the ability to create not only flash websites, cross-platform AIR apps based on web apps etc with native functionality, but also the key factor: Export to iPhone app for Flash.
I am all for Apple and only use Apple everything including an iPhone, MacBook pro, time capsule and iTouch. HOWEVER; Steve Jobs motivation is greed and it’s disgusting. The iPad was simply a response to the extensive new usage of NetBooks running Windows at a low price point [1-300$ USD] and a way to invigorate an already market leading “app store”.
So now you can buy two versions of the apps that you love. The iPad version, and the iPhone version, although both run on iPhone OS 4.1 [currently], and can be adapted to detect device OS and redraw dimensions accordingly.
As far as Steve Jobs criticism of Flash and calling it “buggy”; another irony is that at least my windows using/viewing clients can see my websites that I make in Flash looking exactly the same in every browser, without me ever having to even check. Flash doesn’t care about things like “quirks mode”. I’m not an evangelist for Flash, I’m merely stating three main points:
This is analogous to political lobbying in Washington whereas the man with the money influences the man with the clout.
Via NY Tech Meetup List [Author: Damion Hankejh]
“I don’t think companies should* develop a standard site and a mobile site — my point is that they are* doing this already.
HTML5 is no more capable than any other technology at gracefully shrinking a custom interface from a width of 1024 pixels to a 3-inch smartphone screen. How is HTML5 going to magically replicate the time and critical thinking behind these redesigns? Clearly it can’t — and in my experience, GUI implementation is not where the bulk of development is couched for most applications anyway; it takes more planning and time to design a GUI (or two) than to implement a GUI. Companies are stuck building different front ends for different screen sizes with or without HTML5.”
Great Point.
By far the best experiment in emerging Web technologies that I have seen yet. The demo uses Processing, Canvas and .ajax( calls to simulate a really cool animated effect of tweets aligning with the <audio /> playing.
Check it out here: http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/
We all use Eclipse for development [Well, anyone that knows their stuff], and there is something definitely missing.
When Linus Torvalds essentially replaced the legacy SVN system with GIT / GitHub etc were born – no one has stepped up to the plate yet to produce a working Eclipse plugin with integration. I heard rumors and dead site links otherwise, but nothing that has panned out.
Do you remember CVS? Video killed the radio star and GIT will kill SVN.
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