Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 853
Errr... from what I see here, it's not Mr. Jobs that seems to have to worry.
Hint: see Wovel's suggestion.
Errr... from what I see here, it's not Mr. Jobs that seems to have to worry.
Hint: see Wovel's suggestion.
Yea — I'm using a full-sized bluetooth keyboard on my iPad
The funny thing is: I would never trade it in for a netbook.
Sounds like we both win.
Let's identify success metrics on this: tell me what specific performance points you'd be examining, as well as the threshold they would have to exceed in order that you'd be satisfied iPad is not a "mistake" of a product. Is it sales volume? Is it sales in the first year? Is it a percentage comparison against another tablet device that preceded it in the market, or against netbook sales, or...?
If you propose some sane evaluation points, I'm kinda ready to make some loot off you, sir, if you're the gambling type
I been saying this throughout the thread, so pardon my (re)redundancy, but I really think Adobe's wisest move at this juncture would be to create authoring tools as great as the Flash authoring environment and Flex IDE for HTML5 (SVG + Canvas, etc) production.
And hey - remember <blink> and ridiculously large paychecks?- good times...
No mental gymnastics here: just happy to have a likely "win" for HTML5 and web standards in general. If Adobe were smart, they'd stop divert money from Flash, and focus on building out great Flash-like authoring tools that put out HTML5 content.
Anyone who claims differently is a deluded apologist Apple fanboy.
Or appreciates standards, amigo. Relax.
I'm a web professional of 13 years experience... and it's my professional opinion that websites ought to be built with open standards and web technologies
On the UX tip, it's certainly possible to design and implement Flash content that doesn't rely on hover states, but the story's main point is that a great number of existing websites would have to be rewritten to do so... the thing is, while you're rewriting, you may as well just go standards.
I presently work at a major media company in NYC that has websites that use plenty of Flash (including a number of children's sites that are WAY flash heavy); my team produces both HTML and Flash-based sites. And, being that I'd get paid either way (forgive me for raising that point, but it does seem like your viewpoint is likely to suffer from no small amount bias, since your livelihood is presently tied to Flash development), I'd still always recommend going HTML.
That said, Flash does offer a great "fallback" solution for rendering SVG, Canvas content, and audio / video media in browsers that don't yet support HTML 5
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