Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jan 2010 20:01 UTC
It would appear that Microsoft will finally take standards compliance in the browser world seriously, after dragging its feet for years. Back in November 2009, the Redmond giant already revealed that Internet Explorer 9 would come with CSS3 and HTML5 support, and now the cup runneth over, as Microsoft has requested to join the W3C's SVG Working Group.
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RE[8]: Comment by Kroc
by StaubSaugerNZ on Thu 7th Jan 2010 09:32
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COM is not obsolete. Actually most of new the Win32 APIs in Vista and Windows 7 are COM based and no longer simple C APIs.
On that basis programming in raw ASM is not obsolete either. Sure, once in a while people do revert to ASM when they have to but for all intents and purposes it is such a small proportion of source and so niche it is considered obsolete (or at least somewhat obsolescent) by most reasonable folks. Same with COM, no sane person starts a *new* project using that technology when there are newer, easier and more portable technologies about.
Who cares whether the Win32 API is C or COM? The bulk of development is moving away from writing at that level and has been for some time. Holding on to proprietary technologies like COM is keeping Micrsoft back. Developing in COM doesn't make you l33t, it makes you someone looking backward and missing opportunities arising in the future (hint, they're not using platform-specific cruft like COM).
Back to the topic: Bravo Microsoft have finally seen fit to adopt SVG. Will that mean they'll ditch their proprietary XPS rubbish too? Will they embrace-extend-extinguish as before? Will their involvement cripple the standard? Will a half-assed implementation come out of Redmond (as in their OpenGL and other implementations of real standards)? I hope not.
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RE[7]: Comment by Kroc
by BluenoseJake on Thu 7th Jan 2010 11:58
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RE[8]: Comment by Kroc
by StaubSaugerNZ on Thu 7th Jan 2010 19:16
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So no way to convert from big-endian to little-endian exists? Netscape back in the day had a plugin that would run ActiveX controls, thats COM.
Now I don't think running COM objects is a good idea, I'm just saying it could be done.
Now I don't think running COM objects is a good idea, I'm just saying it could be done.
Oh yes it can be done but my point is, why would you bother when there are better things out there that don't make you have to think which endian you are, or what memory model you use.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
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Except that COM represents the memory model of an i386 with the specific layout of little-endian MS VS C++. Not the same as cross-platform CORBA really. Certainly no where near as portable as SOAP webservices for remote operations. So, no wonder nobody wants to waste time implementing the archaic, obsolete and cumbersome COM system. Sure they could do it, but the community came up with and standardised vastly superior ways of doing IPC/RPC.
Edited 2010-01-07 06:52 UTC