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It appears these days that advertising pays for both applications written against the web platform and those written against Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry, and a host of other ones.

The article doesn't say that Ubuntu's solution doesn't allow for any native applications. Which one would you prefer going forward? "HTML5" and the technologies that underpin it, are the Internet's largest application runtime.

Unless this is 100% controlled by the user, it's a terrible idea.

The getUserMedia function requires the user to click through a prompt to start recording.

before you think it, i'm no MS shill, i use Linux and only Linux. that said, the MSIE team is doing it right this time with IE11.

while many people here are slamming on the basis of standards compliance, there is something you should know: it's broken because they are striving standards compliance.

as we all know, there are plenty of MSIE exclusive ways of doing things in the DOM and render hacks that have had to be done so you end up with code that has "browser detection" to apply browser specific hacks. MSIE is making a clean break from all of that. so all those IE only apps like Outlook Web App will now fail because all the IE specific stuff has been removed. they went so far as to remove "MSIE" from their user agent string to prevent any old code from detecting it as Internet Explorer.

IE10 user agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)
IE11 user agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0) like Gecko

so while it seems to have growing pains, as far as IE goes, IE11 is a step in the right direction.

some nice differences:

Deprecation of file:// based Proxy configuration scripts
Deprecation of document modes
Deprecated VBScript in IE11 mode pages
navigator.plugins -- now a supported extensibility point <-- ironically chrome is removing this support
ActiveX now behaves like a navigator plugin.
Silverlight plugin is not installed by default (they got Netflix to support HTML5 via Encrypted Media Extensions aka DRM in the HTML5 spec)

more info:
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/07/02/internet-explorer-11-dont-call-me-ie/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2013/09/24/internet-explorer-11-changelist-change-log.asp

http://www.webplatform.org/ is an open source online code school for HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, new web APIs, etc. Some of the brightest minds and most engaging speakers at coder conferences are contributing to it. (Example: Lea Verou for CSS.)

It was only just recently created (October 8th), so it's pretty rudimentary at this point. They characterize it as being in alpha. But have a look-see. If you code or want to code for the web, it's well worth bookmarking and checking back from time to time. And if you really know the subject matter, it's a good place to contribute.

Actually, Mozilla is signed on:
http://www1.webplatform.org/stewards/mozilla/

Which IS very important since Mozilla arguably has the best current documentation wiki.

...on a site about web development

Truly this is a parody of a documentation website, if anything

http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/javascript

javascript is ther. dunno why the fuck they would include php since it's out of scope..

"Facebook - A community-driven documentation center [...]"
(as seen on the Stewards page)

On the bottom of the front page are 9 logos, Apple is not one of them. On the Stewards page are 10 organisations/companies, including Apple. But Apple is the only one without a link to a description/statement of the company. They seem to be the neglected stepchild here?

And Slasdot puts them first in the title, and categorizes the article in the Apple section :-)

i was talking features, not design. this thing is missing stuff http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/optimizing_css http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/css_transforms

i was talking features, not design. this thing is missing stuff http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/optimizing_css http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/tutorials/css_transforms