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- Will IE 8 break the Web?
- Will IE 8 break the Web?It's an opportunity for the money puppetswho write IE only sites to re-screw their customers and charge hundreds to add appropriate headers to their sites.RE: Will IE 8 break the Web?I think they originally didn't want to "break the web" because it would make IE...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- RIA wars heat up with alpha versions of Adobe's AIR and Flex
- RIA wars heat up with alpha versions of Adobe's AIR and FlexAlpha?It is a production release for both products. Yeah, you know what you are talking about. Not.Forgot the part where...Flash is abysmal to develop for, and lacks a programmer-centric IDE.Flex 3 Builder is useless junkIt only runs on Windows,...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-28
- Lumina 3D 0.3 (Windows)
- Lumina 3D is a flexible plattform independent development environment for GLSL shaders. It uses ECMA-script for tools and emulating opengl engines. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2008-01-14
- Adobe Apollo is dead on arrival
- Adobe Apollo is dead on arrivalAlpha Focused on FlexThis alpha was specifically focused on Flex/Flash, which is why Ajax seems like a second class citizen. When the final product ships, Ajax will be on par with Flash/Flex to the point where you won't ever need to use those "proprietary formats"...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- A list of Rich Internet Application Technologies for the Digg crowd
- This comment thread made me realize that there is still a lot of confusion about what the different RIA technologies do. Statements like "Flex is Adobes AJAX offering." or "Flex is like a weak version of WPF/E when it comes down to it." just show people havent quite grasped where...
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Top 10 Rich Internet Application events of 2006
- I gave a rundown of my predictions for next year, but a friend emailed me and suggest that I go back and give my opinion on the 10 biggest RIA events of last year. I think it’s a fun idea and after going back and sifting through the news, I...
- Blog posts 2006-12-29
- Universal Desktop Daily - Wednesday, December 7, 2006
- Universal Desktop Daily - Wednesday, December 7, 2006Save us from JavascriptI like the responses to the [url= http://tinyurl.com/yx9lfa]Mike Harsh blog post[/url]. It is nice that MS is allowing WPF/E apps to be manipulated by Javascript, etc. But there are a lot of developers who would simply like to place a...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- Could Adobe's contribution to Mozilla force MS to take Internet Explorer open source?
- News.coms Martin Lamonica has the details on "the largest code contribution yet to the open source Mozilla Foundation:" On Tuesday, Adobe is expected to announce the donation in conjunction with the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. The code will form the basis for a new open-source project called...
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Apocalypse 2.0 - the day the web broke
- On February 16th, 2005, Jesse James Garrett coined the term Ajax in an article titled "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications". Days before that, on February 8th, the Google Blog announced something called Google Maps. Ajax was born and the web hasn't been the same since....
- Blog posts 2006-09-05
- Building RIAs : Flex 2
- For the second part of my series on the solutions behind Rich Internet Applications, I am covering Flex 2, just released by Adobe at the end of June with a new version of their ubiquitous Flash Player. In the first part, I covered Laszlo Systems' OpenLaszlo. ...
- Blog posts 2006-07-19
- Adobe Releases Flex 2 and No One Notices
- Adobe released Flex 2 this morning at 12:01 and while the Adobe Blogsphere was buzzing about the release, the general consensus from the tech community at large was a collective yawn. The press release went out, but no one seems interested in talking about it outside of the Adobe...
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- IBM sits out Office document standards effort
- IBM sits out Office document standards effortDo they have their people working everywhere??I am sure there must be a "Microsoft Exec" working in most of the companies and boards all over the world...wait for it you see em in McDonalds next; if they aren't already... I fully back IBM holding...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-21
- TeamCall 3.4.0.8-r5 (Mac)
- Multitalented platform ilink TeamCall is the heart of our middleware and the crucial link between telephone and PC. The platform monitors the telephone system and forwards incoming calls to the connected client applications. It is ideally suited for heterogeneous company networks. With TeamCall, PBX system functions become freely available...
- Software downloads 2005-07-21
- Public tests new version of Flash player
- Public tests new version of Flash playerCool!Works well.Well...i]"The key value of the Flash player is that you go to content on the Web and it works. And we don't want to break anything."[/i]Not exactly. [b]Most[/b] of the time it works. Sometimes it fails miserably to work.Had a fellow in to...
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
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