Isn't W3C finalizing parts of the HTML5 spec when they're done so that it can just be implemented? That doesn't mean HTML5 is done, just that they reached some milestones that allowed them to actually finalize these features... Much like software having new features added in a new version.
While Flash video stuttered like crazy for me in those inbetween versions (5/6), it seems completely fine in 7. Note that I'm running a nightly version in Windows and Ubuntu (where Flash performance is still fair).
Last I checked, Gnome (at least in Ubuntu) had some nice usability improvements, next to providing actual new stuff to the desktop, most of not being a copycat of something. I guess this is all up to perspective.
Besides this, OS (and software) developers copy each other all the time when it comes to usability improvements. I'm seeing stuff in Win7 that was in Linux software and OSX for years before that.
Blah blah blah flamebait flamebait. I'm surprised it got through the firehose.
I'm being perfectly honest here; Linux as a desktop system is working fine on four of my home computers. Two of them are even Windows hybrid systems, if you care to know.
I'd rather use an Office suit(e) to quickly jot down those somewhat formatted notes I have to be taking quickly. Tex etcetera are nice, but you need to actually write some code down sometimes, and you don't have the time to add all that to your document quickly sometimes.
It's just Facebook... If people really massively get hysterical over the unavailability of Facebook, that should count as yet another thing horribly, horribly wrong with the world...
Um, where did you get this information from? Binary versions will usually run much better than they would in Wine, at least according to personal experience.
Saying that stuff works perfectly well is saying we should just halt any and all progress on UI design. Who knows there's a much smarter design right around the corner nobody will ever get to because trying to improve an interface is some sort of taboo!
Things can ALWAYS get better, and people are experimenting to get to that point. Though I can't see this experiment packing out very well or useful, you can't blame 'em for at least trying something.
As for your car analogy; designing an UI goes quite a bit further than just the wheels and cabin. You go into every detail inside the chassis, and even the user experience, and from what I can remember about cars they'll never stop trying to improve on those things.
Most canvases will have an id or class attached to them, making them easily selectable. And even when they don't, you can always access them with JS by saying "I want the fourth video element", for example. (Only when the webpage changes could this potentially become a problem.) It's not exactly difficult to select and hide these elements, though.
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Isn't W3C finalizing parts of the HTML5 spec when they're done so that it can just be implemented? That doesn't mean HTML5 is done, just that they reached some milestones that allowed them to actually finalize these features... Much like software having new features added in a new version.
While Flash video stuttered like crazy for me in those inbetween versions (5/6), it seems completely fine in 7. Note that I'm running a nightly version in Windows and Ubuntu (where Flash performance is still fair).
And the grand prize of commenter who makes the least sense goes to...
Is the evercookie generator a script? Because if that's the case, you could just block the script.
Only on older Wiis. Or at least, I was never able to use these DVD playing hacks.
Last I checked, Gnome (at least in Ubuntu) had some nice usability improvements, next to providing actual new stuff to the desktop, most of not being a copycat of something. I guess this is all up to perspective.
Besides this, OS (and software) developers copy each other all the time when it comes to usability improvements. I'm seeing stuff in Win7 that was in Linux software and OSX for years before that.
Blah blah blah flamebait flamebait. I'm surprised it got through the firehose.
I'm being perfectly honest here; Linux as a desktop system is working fine on four of my home computers. Two of them are even Windows hybrid systems, if you care to know.
Actually, businesses are far more likely to pull shit like this.
I'd rather use an Office suit(e) to quickly jot down those somewhat formatted notes I have to be taking quickly. Tex etcetera are nice, but you need to actually write some code down sometimes, and you don't have the time to add all that to your document quickly sometimes.
Point is, only flamebait is given an no actual reasoning.
No need, they could just write a plugin (if they were allowed to by their bosses).
Aren't some people here to BE updated about the FOSS world?
It is, it's just a much worse one.
Y A K A W O W ! ! !
It's just Facebook... If people really massively get hysterical over the unavailability of Facebook, that should count as yet another thing horribly, horribly wrong with the world...
That means Apple's percentage and then Google's percentage, actually.
Probably because it being closed doesn't make it a dead end, at least not in the foreseeable future.
People are excited to see DX even being possible on Linux now. Don't worry, the wind'll blow over.
Um, where did you get this information from? Binary versions will usually run much better than they would in Wine, at least according to personal experience.
Could it be that Linux may soon support this Microsoft API better than Microsoft itself?
So, what, Ubuntu 6.10 will get DirectX support too?
Oracle is doing what it's doing best: being Oracle.
Seriously, I have only seen bad decisions come from this business lately. How they managed to make this much money to get there I'll never understand.
Saying that stuff works perfectly well is saying we should just halt any and all progress on UI design. Who knows there's a much smarter design right around the corner nobody will ever get to because trying to improve an interface is some sort of taboo!
Things can ALWAYS get better, and people are experimenting to get to that point. Though I can't see this experiment packing out very well or useful, you can't blame 'em for at least trying something.
As for your car analogy; designing an UI goes quite a bit further than just the wheels and cabin. You go into every detail inside the chassis, and even the user experience, and from what I can remember about cars they'll never stop trying to improve on those things.
http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/look-what-web-dragged-google-terrifies-public-mysterious-balls has a video. All I could find.
3 years is... not exactly a great comparison. But heck, the animation will run fine on a 6 year old computer as long as you don't use IE.
Most canvases will have an id or class attached to them, making them easily selectable. And even when they don't, you can always access them with JS by saying "I want the fourth video element", for example. (Only when the webpage changes could this potentially become a problem.) It's not exactly difficult to select and hide these elements, though.