Catching up on the last few weeks of news, we give time to false rumours being spread about Palm, only adding to their unfortunate pile of woes at this moment. Deja vu strikes with us discussing Windows Phone 7 Series not having copy and paste and won’t allow third party apps outside of the marketplace store. Internet Explorer 9; could this really be the end of excuses for developers clinging to IE6? The ticking timb bomb that is H.264 and why Theora isn’t necessarily the answer. We end on Adobe Flash–will Adobe take the opportunity to embrace what is happening with HTML5, or keep up their assault on Apple? All and more in this episode of the OSnews Podcast.
Here’s how the audio file breaks down:
| 0:00:30 | “Palm” |
|---|---|
| 0:17:20 | “WinPho” |
| 0:31:04 | “IE9” |
| 0:46:31 | “H264” |
| 1:06:57 | “Flash” |
| 1:18:24 | Meta |
| 1:21:49 | (Total Time) |
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MS is still selling XP. A company that makes 6+ billion in profits in one quarter should be able to support their products on each of the platforms they sell.
So either stop selling XP or release IE9 on Vista7 only.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too is what I am saying I guess, but I also guess we won’t see final IE9 before we see Windows 8 (beta).
And on a powerful box with aggressive adblocking Firefox is way way way WAY faster than Chrome .. it all depends. Chrome isn’t always faster.
I have yet to see a single benchmark with gecko faster then webkit
Interesting comments about the web statistics for OSNews. Are they openly available?
I am a huge fan of the Nokia N900 mobile computer, and I was wondering how the default browser (microB, but identified most often as desktop Firefox ) and Mobile Firefox are handled in your statistics on browsers used.
Is it grouped under (desktop) Firefox? or a separate N900 group in the mobile browser statistics?
I also very much miss the N900/Meamo/MeeGo/Nokia in your discussion on the smartphone OS market. If you look into the N900 I think you will find it a unique device and probably one of the best portable internet devices available on the market today. (for computer geeks the nicest Nokia without a doubt)
We use Mint, we can’t just hand out access to that. It seems that it isn’t functioning properly and isn’t reporting everything (2M hits in Feb, but just 418 hits this month!?). It’s just not a priority atm.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t drill down very much, and all I know is that there’s a category called “Mozilla” (4%) which lists Gecko version numbers; 1.9.2 being 1% and everything else being “<1%â€.
adobe should drop flash and start selling a top notch html5 creation suite….
Its a win-win they no longer have to maintain flash and we get a better faster more integrated web experience
That would mean admitting that their technology isn’t the winner though, and one thing most large businesses don’t lack for is stubborn pride.
Its called Dreamweaver. They also use HTML5 and CSS3 in Air
A DreamWeaver user cannot make my website using the point and click interface (it doesn’t support RGBA, shadows or other CSS3); likewise, I couldn’t make the same thing in HTML/CSS as a complex Flash design.
Adobe should be tying these two together so that Flash [Studio] can output the complex SVG and code instead of SWF, as such designs would be painstaking to code by hand.
SVG is hands down the slowest, most resource intensive, and most complex way to do animations on the web. Canvas is significantly faster, and flash is an order of magnitude better then that. It would be cool if they went that way eventually when the technology is there, but that wont be for years, if ever with SVG.
As for DW stuff, the original poster was basically saying that Adobe should throw their weight behind the open web by providing dev tools for it. You are correct that they don’t support CSS3 yet, but that doesn’t mean they don’t currently make the most popular (and arguably powerful) tool for building the open web already.
First, there is a typo. WinPho starts at 17:20 not 7:20.
About the Palm thing, they are stupid for trying to push like they are Apple. Mostly about them going with one carrier. In Canada, they went with 1 carrier. They chose Bell, which is probably 4th place. You can get an iPhone from any carrier. You can get a Blackberry at any carrier (though selection varies). Only Android and the Pre don’t seem to do this. In Canada, your phone is free with a 3 year contract, 50% off on a 2 year, and 25% off on a 1 year. You get a new phone (with the same discount), half way through your contract. So no one wants to pay for two phone contracts just to get a Pre.
They really just should have let any wireless co sell there phone. To not do that here just seems like ignorance.
These “Palm should have…” comments drive me nuts. “Why did they go for Sprint and why exclusive for so long? Why not Verizon right away?”
It’s so clear, it’s stupid: in December 08, a month before the Pre was announced (not shipping, just announced), Palm stock was at $1 or so. The company was dying.
Why didn’t they ship right away, why was no one allowed to touch a Pre until it was shipping? Because webOS was just not ready.
I bet Sprint was the ONLY carrier they could get. JLG’s claims about trying to play Verizon like they were Apple are just claims backed by no evidence. Why would any major carrier bet that Palm could pull off a turn around when the product was NOT even working then?… And by judging webOS 1.0, they could have used a few more months, but then again, they probably had NO CHOICE and shipped what they had, despite the problems we know (miserable battery life in particular).
We all heard that Verizon was very picky about the devices they carry, testing them for months. How would that line up with Palm’s 100% new webOS?… Anyone suggesting that Palm should have gone with Verizon at launch are just wishful thinkers.
Who remains if Verizon is out? AT&T, Sprint & T-Mobile. AT&T had the iPhone, and no reason to rock that boat. T-Mobile was already in bed with Android at the time. Remains Sprint and no one else.
Let’s stop taking Palm for more stupid than they are: if they went with Sprint exclusive until 2010, chances are they had no choice at all.
As for why isn’t the Pre available everywhere? Because it’s a lot of work & effort to support any new carrier.
Why didn’t they ship the PDK earlier? How about because it wasn’t ready?
Why couldn’t international users buy apps from the catalog until 1.4.1 released today? Because that wasn’t ready!
Why don’t they ship webOS 5.0 today? Because it’s not ready either…
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