The State of Web Development 2010
Welcome to this detailed report from our sec ond “State of Web Development” sur vey of pro fes sional web design ers and devel op ers. It includes details and analy sis of all the responses to over 50 questions cov er ing tech nolo gies, tech niques, philoso phies and prac tices that today’s web pro fes sion als employ.
HTML5 presentation
Great presentation of the capabilities of HTML5 (with examples).
The Net and the European Union
I found this article really interesting and I though I’d translate it to english (it is originally written in spanish). The article is from Enrique Dans and published at Expansión on the 29th of October 2009. Enrique Dans is a known spanish blogger and Expansión is a also an important spanish economic journal.
This is, of course, my own free translation of the article, and neither I or my small site has any relation with the author or the journal where it was published.
The article:
This is not what they sold to us. The European Union, at the Net level, is a bad joke: we have a continent that does not work in the Net and a European Parliament determined to make it work even less.
Incoming OpenGL in WebKit?
The day this truly becomes mainstream will be a great day.
And why I have the feeling that everything new on the browser is lately coming only from the WebKit side (i.e. Safari, Chrome and more). What happens with Firefox? (I don’t really expect much from Internet Explorer…)
(via AppleInsider : Wolfire Blog)
HTML5 assault on Adobe Flash heats up with ClickToFlash — RoughlyDrafted Magazine
Interesting article about the future of flash. Adobe Flash faces new challenges with HTML5 and being locked out of the iPhone—I like that decision from Apple everyday more and more.
It also talks about ClickToFlash, a great plugin to prevent annoying flash ads while still being able to easily activate that necessary flash. Recommended to anyone using Safari.
The Xanadu Dream
Great article of ancient computer lore.
He is the archetypal borderline autistic, non-conformist, free-thinking technologist. Any resemblance between Ted and your average programmer is, I’m sure, completely coincidental.
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Xanadu, a global hypertext publishing system, is the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry. It has been in development for more than 30 years.
(via Coding Horror)
iPhone webpage with touch events
This is a nice example of what you can do with javascript on a webpage for iPhone using touch events (opposed to normal mouse events).
Observe that the page is only interesting if seen through an iPhone/iPod Touch.
