Adobe seems to be really keen to get rid of Flash, at least on Linux. After 11.2, flash will be supported only through Google’s Pepper Plugin API, which is currently implemented only by Chrome/Chromium. Flash will be supported as an independent piece of software on other platforms. [Continue]
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YSlow Open Source
Yes, open sourced, licensed under BSD license. It is good to see action from the Yahoo! Developer Network. [Continue]
Standards v/s IE6, Err It Is WebKit This Time!
The story isn’t a lot different. The open Web needs us to program to the Web standards. If we program to tools, we pit standards against the innovations that tool has brought to the table. [Continue]
Indian Government Takes Us One Step Closer To The Internet Nightmare
It is getting scarier! I hope good sense prevails and we don’t go through the nightmare. Vinton Cerf had said: The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services. [Continue]
Adobe Unflexes
Looks like Adobe is all set to become a HTML5 company. Following their decision to stop development on mobile flash, Adobe has decided to donate Flex SDK to the Apache Software Foundation. And it is not only Flex, Adobe seems to be lightening up of a lot of technologies. [Continue]
India Comes Up With Text To Speech And Web-based OCR
Press release: Technology Development for Indian Language (TDIL) Programme of the Department of Information Technology, under a consortium project has developed this Text-To- Speech system. TTS has also been integrated with Non Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) screen reader and Optical Character Recognition System (OCRA). OCR system developed under a TDIL consortium Project for Hindi & Punjabi was also provided on TDIL Data Centre to get user feedback, while the challenges of computationally intensive technology research are parallely being addressed. [Continue]
Making iPad The Anti-Web
New York Post seems to be taking the wrong direction. When HTML5 apps on iPad are making the Web as native as possible for the iPad, the New York Post seems to be taking too much of an effort to create the anti-Web for its iPad users.
Delicious Now With YouTube Founders
Delicious is now with the YouTube co-founders. I have been a stop-and-go user of delicious. Not because it is not good, but there are just so many ways to bookmark and share with this blog, other microblogs and social applications that at times using delicious became pointless. [Continue]
Really Get Off IE6 Now
Time is really up for IE6. Even Microsoft has dedicated an entire site to get rid of IE6. We have been warning IE6 users to upgrade for quite some time now. [Continue]
HTML v/s HTML5
WHATWG has a great comic timing. While W3C is bolder with 5, WHATWG is throwing it out (courtesy Waqas). While there are all kinds of accusations flying around, I think WHATWG is doing what is right for developing the specification and W3C is doing what is what is right for publishing the standard. [Continue]
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