Every web WYSIWYG produces garbage markup, that's why I hate them. They're supposed to make HTML easier for plebians, but in reality they're given the power to make incomprehensible messes. Like handing a loaded shotgun to a toddler.

At least what CK produces (and FCK before it) is less fubar'd than what TinyMCE vomits out.

Inline editing is a recipe for an infinite amount of "I edited the page, and now it's broken" support requests. Only rabidly masochistic developers would even think of deploying it anywhere that a non-developer could access it.

Long live the textarea!

WordPress is preventing wider adoption of many codebases. Many of the projects which use WP are better suited to other (better) codebases, such as Drupal.

1. RedHat 6: got tired of dependency hell after a couple years.
2. Gentoo from 2004: because peer pressure. It's impossible to maintain if you don't keep up with it.
3. Mint since 2010: the KDE variant has been my primary desktop since then. A breeze to maintain.

leading edge of what?

Hype and reality distortion.

Tablets are poised to take over the biggest market in business - eventually they're going to replace clipboards.

That is precisely the narrow vertical markets I described above. Also, the current tablet hype omits any mention of tablets replacing general purpose computers/laptops, leaving most people to assume they can. That's where the trouble starts.

I can't see tablets being useful for much outside of intranet applications. Word processing and spreadsheets would be nightmarish on tablets; projecting PowerPoint presentations would be a herculean task. Tablets will bring efficiency only to those tasks to which they are suited (being digital clipboards) and nothing else.

And I should add, all the kids who got iPads from their schools are finding many of the same limitations that these teachers did.

... to every organization with staff: tablets are for consumption, not production. If your staff will have the regular need to create or edit anything more complex than an email, it will be a chore on a tablet, if not impossible, regardless of whether the tablet can load files from a thumbdrive or over a network.

This story supports my position that tablets are stupid except for a very few vertical business markets, and will go away faster than netbooks once people can see past the hype.

Why is Toys R Us producing a kid's tablet, instead of LeapFrog or even Amazon?

Business tablets comprise are a few niche markets at best. Consumer tablets are doomed to failure.

The only reason the iPad has sold well is because of Apple's reality distortion field. No one made a commercially viable tablet before, and no one else will.

I have no idea why they can't [...] understand their target audience.

Because starting with Gnome3, they decided their target audience is tablet/touchscreen users. There has not been, nor is there ever likely to be, hardware installed with Linux+Gnome3 out of the box. They decided to cater to an audience that does not exist.

Gnome3, Unity, and the UI-formerly-known-as-Metro all suck donkey balls, assuming you don't believe the few users who have completely adapted their usage patterns and workflows, after much effort, for minimal gains. Any perceived simplicity is actually just more complexity hidden beneath the surface.

And this is all beside the fact that touch UIs are innately less capable than the traditional keyboard+pointer paradigm.

Except this time MS didn't decide to merely make the window titlebars look like plastic toys for toddlers.

They've bet the farm on tablets, and in all their wisdom (read: hubris) are forcing the tablet UI onto the established desktop for which it is not suited. MS wants to kill the desktop, and thinks that the now disillusioned users will flock to the MS branded tabets (the form factor MS thinks they'll control) running the same OS they wanted to escape.

This will never happen. Win8 will be ignored no matter what hardware it runs on. It's not for the desktop; Win7 will continue chugging along there. As for tablets, no one has replicated the iPad hype, and MS sucks at marketing anything but XBox to consumers (which also means Win8 phone marketshare will only stay stagnant at best). Win8 is being positioned as a paradigm shift, but in reality it will be a disaster, maybe even Ballmer's last.

As of now. How many times was support for XP extended because Vista took so long to gestate, and then nobody wanted it, and the uptake rate of 7 still meant XP was viable?

MS is making their own Windows8 driven tablets, huh?

If I were an OEM, I'd just passively ignore that for a time. Win8 might be passably usable on a tablet, but does anyone think MS can take any significant marketshare from the iPad? Besides that, tablets as consumer devices are bound to fail, present hype notwithstanding.

But when my OEM Windows distribution contract comes up for renewal, I'd demand that I can put whatever OS i want on any of my hardware, since MS decided to compete with me directly by making their own tablets (for what that's worth).