Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jan 2012 17:47 UTC
Ah yes, why not? The last time we did this, it was March 2011, so it's been almost a year since we offered a little insight into what kind of operating systems and browsers you, dear readers, are using. Nothing particularly earth-shattering going on here.
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Member since:2007-09-22
As Hakum Lie mentioned, experimentation is good.
What is important is that content is still viewable in all browsers.
This is a constant battle, especially now that IE6 is out and also all these new fancy features and modern browsers exists. There is a big gap between what is supported in those browsers.
That problem will obviously remain indefinitely, but what is supported by all browsers that are in use keeps getting more and more.
Even Opera supports things other browsers do not support which was thought up by Opera. Which is normal.
Like:
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-gcpm/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-gcpm/
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-reader-a-new-way-to-read-t...
And which is a good thing.
The time between public specifications and deployment of the implementation in Chrome is short though. Too short ? I don't know.
Google has many websites people use on a daily basis, thus obviously is a big responsibility. If they don't make it work for everyone, everyone will suffer, including Google.
WebM-on-by-default on Youtube has been in development for 1 1/2 years now and it is not yet deployed.
SPDY has been deployed on Google websites and in Chrome for 1 year now. Some things in the specification still needed to be changed (draft 3).
Is it to soon ? Or is development to slow ? With these 2 examples I don't think so.
Member since:2007-09-22
As for the vendor prefix ... Nothing annoys me more.
It is abused quite a bit by developers,
It is abused quite a bit by developers,
You should really have a look at:
http://vimeo.com/16326857 at 21:00
The important part is:
"as long as they update the syntax when it changes"
Some people use things like Sass ( http://sass-lang.com/ ) to not have to type them themselves.
Here you can see how they do that:
http://vimeo.com/33647875
Not sure if that is the best example, but I'm sure you can research it yourself if you want to.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 23:59 UTC
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 22:33 UTC
Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Linked by Howard Fosdick on 05/24/13 21:41 UTC
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
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"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
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"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:04 UTC
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 17:52 UTC
"The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.More News »
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As for the vendor prefix ... Nothing annoys me more.
It is abused quite a bit by developers, go to Smashing Magazine and find one of their "top 20 sites doing coolest <something or other>" and check how many of those sites work in IE8 or even IE9, some won't even work correctly in Firefox.
Here is a good example from Zurb
http://www.zurb.com/playground/osx-dock
It won't work even in the latest Firefox, to be fair to Zurb ... this is only a bit of an experiment.