it works? damn I'll have to take a look at using it then, trying to make fancier things work with dom and css is just a bitch! I mean, covering desktop ie/firefox/chrome is no problem but covering mobile versions of those at the same time is. javascript itself isn't a problem for me, I like node.js despite it's limits too surprisingly lot(I've just been doing js for a year or so.. from java/c++ background it's not so bad). sure, you'll lose css but that's not that big of an issue when in all cases when I've been told to just "edit the css to make it flexible" is almost the same as saying "fuck you and the horse I put under you", and a widget system built for it would take care of most things. I suppose for input you'll have to either do a lot of work or hack in some html parts to take care of that.

yeah, logically, the thing is to just go around the dom - it was never intended for application development. if web apps try to be first class apps that's pretty much the way to go... problem with html+css is usually that people who aren't executing things just see some css trick or another and then just want that implemented in something where it just doesn't work by adding two lines of css.

native client & etc are really just about launchers. kind of defeats the purpose as run anywhere for now.

Me too. I'm worried about things like crashes. Crashes happen a lot on the existing route.

32,000 people died on US roads in 2011. That's coming down, it was 42,196 10 years earlier in 2001.

Ahh, you're not worried about safety, you're scared of the bogeyman. Go hide under your bed until you grow up.

maybe complain to firefox about their branding/copyright/licensing?

Forgive me for my lack of knowledge of american political geography, but Aren't San Francisco and LA in the same state?

man if you haven't felt "OMG WHAT THe FucK I PAID FOR THIS SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKING INVISIBLE WALL DOING HERE AND WHAT THE FUCK BUGGED MENU tOOK MY ITEMS" then you really haven't played at all.

anyways, it's not like they're going to go through with the threats unless they screw over south koreans with some loot disappearing bugs.

besides than I'm pretty sure if you found guys responsible for kotor2 release and whoever came up with me3 ending you could get away if it was a "jury trial of your peers"..

I don't think that any game developer with any vision is going to stop developing because some guys bitch on twitter though... many more are going to stop because nobody gives a fuck either way about their games.

There is a big disconnect here. Using HTML 5 to implement an app interface on a smart phone is not the same thing as implementing a general browser web interface using the same technologies.

Heaven forbid a web interface should ever have data to manipulate anything more than the cookies it needs in my browser. That would be a security hole you could drive a whole fleet of trucks through.

However, I don't believe that web interfaces will ever equal custom client code or custom apps for the simple reason that you get hesitations and delays during page and AJAX refreshes. One of the worst culprits for this is trying to implement drop down choice boxes that adapt their contents to previously selected data, such as country-state interactions. The only way I know of to do that with a web interface is to refresh the whole page, which is obscenely slow compared to the repopulation of the choice box data itself done by a custom interface.

There is also no way to perform performance tuning and UI tricks like dynamically making widgets visible/invisible with a web app, something that is very common to high performance custom interfaces. In part, this is because web apps don't have the necessary layout management interfaces that a custom application does, which allows them to position those hidden widgets appropriately so that they overlay each other to the pixel.

According to Betteridge's Law, the answer is 'no'.

So clearly they roll out their spy system features without seeking FISA court approval.

I guess you can wipe your ass with the Constitution for all it's worth nowadays. :(

Still, over time I've learned that all the NSA monitors are emails entering and leaving the US. That still concerns me because SaskTel leases server space in Florida, which means all my emails are being scanned, even though I'm a Canadian.

I really wouldn't care if they weren't scanning my emails. I'd just snigger and laugh as the poor dumb 'mericans tromp on down the road to a full scale police state.

The sad thing is that is what's happening, and the citizens of the US largely don't give a shit. What a pity they don't even remember what "freedom" means. It's barely been a decade since 9/11 and the majority has been brainwashed into thinking this type of spy system is the way things have always been.

If this is the game portal used by Windows 8, then MicroSquishy really hasn't got a clue. That was the one feature of WIndows 8 that my folks liked.

local mode has you logged in... in the no save gfwl mode you're not logged in as local, if you are logged in then the saves do work in gfwl.

it's sort of tricky to get it to that mode, some.. ehm.. unauthorized games copied from the net need you to run through some hoops to install older gfwl client. but it works and then you can make local saves.

that's to say that it's a pretty shitty drm in the end.

one of the problems of ms is that they keep changing this shit around every fucking 12 months. but why have another store if they have a games store for metro shit games? they really fucked up their digital distribution over the past couple of years(and of course for other tools they have yet another download/pay service).

well, you could always go for canvas.

not so sure really if that's an option for mobile browsers though..

How history changes...
No, IE sucked, netscape also sucked, IE became dominate by giving away their software and forcing PC builder to put it and NOT allow them to put any other browser on the desktop. Before that Netscape was dominate, and cost 40 bucks at Frys.

There was some small court case or something, you might want to look it up.

Yeah, I kind of hate the response the proposal has gotten, and not because I'm such a huge fan of it that I feel like we *need to* create the hyperloop, but because it shows an underlying shitty attitude that our society had acquired.

When someone proposes a radically different method of solving a problem that may increase efficiency dramatically, we dismiss it out of hand. We don't even bother trying to consider the idea, we just say, "Meh, it's probably dumb and it probably won't work, because if it was going to work, we would have thought of it by now." I think this is an unfortunate overreaction to the utopian expectations from the last century. We're too cynical. In spite of living in a fricken sci-fi future world, with powerful computers in our pockets and global video communications, we still think cool things can't happen, and we make fun of anyone who wants to do anything cool.

kelly johnson was an engineering god and he didn't run the projects to just pump money out of government. of course back then the guys were probably actually motivated, that they felt a real need to build u2, a12 etc.. and their plan to pump more money out of government was to keep churning out cool stuff instead of extending one project to last their entire professional career.

"Um.. it'll work if we build it out of titanium! what do you mean we'll have to invent the machinery to make it happen? do it already!"
14 rules for saving cash:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)#Kelly_Johnson.27s_14_Rules_of_Management

"Because only a few people will be used in engineering and most other areas, ways must be provided to reward good performance by pay not based on the number of personnel supervised."

maybe if you guys would have the smarts to put in notice periods for both ways on your work contracts this wouldn't be that much of a problem... I mean, fuck, isn't that the most obvious things to put in there beyond how many hours per week you're working and for what pay..

it's standard practice over here(or there is one that is union negotiated). when its done from the company side it's quite common in IT also that you are not required to work for the notice period(but they'll pay)...