8 February 2012
Google just rolled out a beta Chrome for Android, which is expected to be the future replacement for Android’s current browser. The good news? It has no Flash support.
We could be seeing a near future where neither of the two major mobile OSes will run Flash content. This should be a big boon for furthering the cause of HTML5 development!
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15 September 2011
The first big blow to Flash was Apple’s iOS. Now Adobe Systems’ browser plug-in faces another major threat to its relevance: Microsoft has banned it and all other plug-ins from the “Metro” version of Internet Explorer 10.
Metro is the modern “touch-first” interface that plays a starring role in the radically new look of Windows 8, which Microsoft plans to release in 2012. Microsoft will ship the new OS with two versions of IE10, one for Metro and one a brushed-up version of the current Windows 7 interface. While the legacy version of IE10 will accommodate plug-ins, the Metro won’t…
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10 August 2011
Amazon, unhappy with Apple’s new in-app rules, did the sensible thing and just gave them a run-around via the browser:
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But when it comes to circumventing Apple’s new in-app subscription rules, it may be best served as an HTML5 Web app.
This morning Amazon launched its Kindle Cloud Reader, a Web-based app that allows you to read your Kindle e-books from any browser on your PC or tablet, including the iPad.
I’m hoping moves like this will make more people realize that the most powerful app on the iPhone/iPad is Safari. Because, well, Henry Blodget put it best.
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2 June 2011
Microsoft released some details about Windows 8 today, and mentioned that
Windows 8 apps use the power of HTML5, tapping into the native capabilities of Windows using standard JavaScript and HTML to deliver new kinds of experiences. These new Windows 8 apps are full-screen and touch-optimized, and they easily integrate with the capabilities of the new Windows user interface.
I’m going to take this as a sign that, in the intra-Microsoft struggle between HTML5 and Silverlight camps, that the former won. Good.
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13 December 2010
Head JS is a marvelous thing. 2.3K when gzipped, and look at all it does: screen width detection (with CSS support), HTML5 element injection (like Modernizr), parallel script downloading with serial execution… I haven’t checked how well it does performance-wise, but I hope it’s decent, because I kind of want to start using it everywhere.
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