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InfoWorld's Peter Wayner discusses the 11 hard truths Web developers must accept in making the most of HTML5 -- especially those who are looking to leverage HTML5 in hopes of unseating native apps. 'The truth is, despite its powerful capabilities, HTML5 isn't the solution for every problem. Its additional features are compelling and will help make Web apps formidable competitors for native apps, but security issues, limitations of local data storage, synchonization challenges, and politics should have us all scaling back our expectations for the spec.'
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 11:29 UTC
The day has finally come! Jolla has finally announced the launch device for its Sailfish operating system - and by god this is a looker. It's decidedly different from other phones out there, but it has good specifications and carries a relatively reasonably price tag - EUR 399, and it's up for pre-order today, shipping in the fourth quarter of this year.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:33 UTC
Why does Google get so much credit in the technology industry? Why, despite the company's many obvious failings, do many geeks and enthusiasts still hold a somewhat positive view on the all-knowing technology giant? A specific talk at Google I/O this week provides the answer.
Linked by David Adams on 05/16/13 4:23 UTC
OSNews is a sponsor of this year's O'Reilly OSCON in Portland, Oregon, USA. A lucky OSNews reader will win a free three-day pass, including two tutorials days. To win the pass, post a comment on this story saying something about Open Source Software or OSCON. We'll pick a winner at random next week. If you don't have an OSNews account, you may email us your entry. Part of the conference is the 9th annual Open Source Awards, and today the 16th is the deadline for nominations. If you'd like to nominate an outstanding open source contributor, do it here. Read on for more information about OSCON. Update: The 20% discount code for OSNews readers is "OSN."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/11/13 21:41 UTC
"Windows is indeed slower than other operating systems in many scenarios, and the gap is worsening." That's one way to start an insider explanation of why Windows' performance isn't up to snuff. Written by someone who actually contributes code to the Windows NT kernel, the comment on Hacker News, later deleted but reposted with permission on Marc Bevand's blog, paints a very dreary picture of the state of Windows development. The root issue? Think of how Linux is developed, and you'll know the answer.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/08/13 14:22 UTC
This is one of those news items that's fun to write, fun to read, fun to comment on, and where no one will be able to say anything unkind. It's all just one big ball of awesome fluffiness. TuneTracker, the BeOS radio automation software, has just released something very special: TuneTracker System 5, the first version designed entirely and specifically for Haiku. In fact, it actually includes Haiku in the software package. Better yet, TuneTracker also unveiled several system-in-a-box products - which have Haiku and TuneTracker pre-installed.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/02/13 15:28 UTC
Exactly twenty years ago, a document was published that played a huge role in establishing the web as we know it today. Twenty years later, and this simple and straightforward document is proof of an irrefutable fact: while closed technologies can change markets, open technologies can change the world.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/29/13 21:06 UTC
Oh multitasking. That staple of computing that got thrown out the window with many modern smartphones. We got some rudimentary thing in its place - but even as multitasking on phone and tablets improves, its user-visible side remains cumbersome. Windows 8 has a neat implementation, and now it's time Android follows in it footsteps.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/24/13 22:24 UTC
They're here! Whether that excites you or not remains to be seen, but the Galaxy S4, which will most likely become the best selling Android smartphone of the year by a huge margin, has been reviewed by all the major sites, and there's lots of interesting conclusions in there - although I think most of you will get the gist.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 04/18/13 11:21 UTC
Nokia has posted its quarterly results for the first quarter of 2013, and just like the quarters that came before, there's not a whole lot of good news in there. The rise in Lumia sales still can't even dream of making up for the sales drop in Symbian phones, and when broken down in versions, the sales figures for Windows Phone 8 Lumias in particular are very disappointing. In North America, Nokia is getting slaughtered.More Features »
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Now click on your browsers "refresh" button to refresh the OSNews main page. How long did it take to complete? For me it took a total of 8 seconds to drag all that data half way around the world, partly because the browser can't start fetching all the data at the same time (for e.g. it can't know which CSS file to download until after it's started decoding the HTML).
Ok. Now try to convince me that this is "efficient".
- Brendan
I won't try and convince you about it is efficiency.
Efficiency of webpages is something I deal with on a regular basis.
However I do want to point out a few things:
Yes, CSS-model isn't all that great. Downloading an extra file at the start of the page sucks. Especially if the system that makes the HTML doesn't properly flush the data.
But a few lines of CSS could apply to many, many different elements on the page and would not even need to be downloaded when going to different pages.
If you would include style information in each and every single tag individually you would be sending a lot more text on the wire.
Ofcourse if you would like to reduce the number of requests before the page renders you could include it in the head it would possibly be even faster.
I don't know why they included jquery on the page.
I'm also not happy that it is included at the top of the page. I would rather see any javascript at the bottom of the page. Preferably not even using a onDomReady event or similair. I doubt that is needed.
I also don't like it if people don't combine their seperate script files into one.
It seems pretty much no-one understand cache-headers these days. They don't include any headers to get the files cached at the side of the browser. OSNews used to care a lot about mobile, but downloading or atleast checking every browser-session. If files have changed seem like a bad idea to me, especially on mobile.
Or why they use as many cookies as they do. I count 40 (!). I also do not know why a static file should have a Set-Cookie-header.
Or why they sent headers for those same static files which prevent it from being cached at all by most browsers.
That makes no sense to me.
I'm sure Kroc (I think he does the part of the site you see in the browser) could tell us more about it if he would read this thread, maybe he would even fix it.
But I'm pretty sure he would be bored out of his mind before he got to my comment. ;-)
Anyway Kroc if you want any help, let me know.
I'm pretty sure OSNews could save on bandwidth and make pages load quicker if they change just a few things.
My guess is Kroc is a busy man. His HTML/CSS is usually pretty great he just needs to read a book by Steve Souders to get some tips on performance and slightly change his mindset.