not_an_alien

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by not_an_alien 16y ago
I can't wait for sites that jump in your face with unnecessary animation and sound AND render incorrectly depending on browser when doing so.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
So if people want to post a video of their cat in their blog, they must encode it in 2-3 different formats, and use an HTML5 video player with a fallback to a Flash video player ... as opposed to a single video file and a single Flash playe
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Or maybe a loud and clear signal for people to stop assuming they're doing it just because of their beta HTML player.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Interesting that the people whose business model actually rely on video distribution (Hulu, YouTube) have opinions that are the opposite of the common user consensus in Redddit or Hacker News ("Flash is dying", "HTML5 is ready", etc).
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
1) Write something is so unfathomable wrong that prompts people to respond, correcting you. 2) Write about something that appeals to people's ideologies, and be sure to go against the most popular creed. Examples: "HTML5 is bad"; "Apple is
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
It's still a lie.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Adding to that the fact that their clever semantics is making it sound better than it is (claiming '4x more pixels' - which is true, but it's just 2x the resolution)... It's the best mobile device screen out there, hands down. They really
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
This article should be renamed "the end of one-design-fits all." Or maybe, we could rename it "double your design staff." Pretty much spot on. I don't like when people say that one change for a new kind of device will dictate how everyth
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
So your point is that lying is OK as long as it goes on par with your agenda?
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Apostrophes are hard [PIC](blogcdn.com)
13 points by not_an_alien 16y ago|3 comments
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
No, because Google is not /restricting/ it. They're using the advanced features, not being bouncers deciding who to let into their party or not based on the color of their shirt.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
From a guy who did many of the examples for chromeexperiments.com and has been a pretty active promoter of HTML5/standards via three.js and other projects: "I'm happy I rejected doing anything for this apple/html5 page. They should rethink
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Shows the hypocrisy of Apple when they're saying you shouldn't need a plugin, but then force you to download a new browser even if it's not necessary.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
I think it’s a stretch to say that Jobs is “deciding what content people can view on the iPhone and iPad.” That made me stop reading the article right away.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
"Mine is better, but I'm not gonna show you why or how"
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
A bunch of hyperbolic crap. But hey, it says "Fuck Flash!", so this is gonna be popular among the HN/reddits/slashdots of the world no matter how much it doesn't stick to reality.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Fullscreen video plays like shit in latest stable Firefox, video has no sound. Playback is ok in latest Chrome, fullscreen is in-window, so no real fullscreen. And people say HTML5 is the future now? I just hope those players that have a
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
iPhone devices will see fragmentation soon too. iPad has a different resolution, the next iPhone will too. The problems you see with Android today are just problems that Apple is holding on but that will have to be faced in the future - it
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Funny metaphor, and very accurate. However, HTML5 is like that same treadmill, only that people still have to build the treadmill itself. It's epic work times two.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Not unique, but certainly extremely common. Go check the comments on the page and see for yourself; plenty of comments there saying it looks "widgety" so Apple was right to ban it (even though there has never been anything on the agreement
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Did you run Smokescreen with the same SWF you used in FP? How long was your test, and what was the battery drop in both? Tell me you're not comparing the decompression and rendering of a video against a simple animation.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Some people are too scared to be left out of their walled garden. Hopefully with the new online store with send-to-phone feature and as Android numbers continue to gain on iPhone, people will realize the Android is a very solid platform to
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
This is pretty emblematic of all the Apple apologists out there: stating that everything is fine for everybody, just because it's fine for them. Until they fall into the hole themselves.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
some people like consistent ui controls between apps Have you ever even bought an iPhone app? There's so much crap there with inconsistent UI.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
That guy is just a prick who hates everything Google/Android.
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Slap for Apple - Media firms tell Jobs they want Adobe's Flash(nypost.com)
2 points by not_an_alien 16y ago|0 comments
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
They'd probably just kill it with fire like they did with lala.
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Google's VP8/WebM and What it Means for You(longtailvideo.com)
1 points by not_an_alien 16y ago|0 comments
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Just disable Javascript, case closed.
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by not_an_alien 16y ago
Ugh.

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