People keep spouting this like it's gospel, and it might be legally correct, but that doesn't make it any less crappy for the consumers. Apple is on the way to be a more evil version of Microsoft when it was worst, and I think the world would be a better place if they were forced to be slightly more open.
The real problem with this, is that soon advertisers will start making canvas ads instead of flash ads, and then what have end users really gained?
The reason that Flash is hated is mostly because it's been misused. And now it will be easy to misuse HTML5/canvas too.
We can now use Javascript to do the same stuff that flash could for many years. Don't take me wrong. I love programming in javascript, and I like that I can now do these things. But what do normal, non-programming users get out of this? That they don't need a plugin? I'd bet most normal users doesn't even know what is flash and what is not. And the way I see it, the canvas-renderer isn't somehow more magic than the flash-engine. Except that it's built into the browser, but you could argue that you could just as well do that with Flash.
Until you spend enough time with it, to learn why the original programmer did as he did.
As I see it, most projects start out with a good structure and the best of intentions, and then comes deadlines and the developer having to juggle several projects at once, and then a shortcut is taken here, then there. And suddenly you end up with a non-documented project where the only person that knows how it works is the original developer.
There will however always be BAD code by bad programmers. I've taken over Java progress where everything was OOP'ed into hell (as in a bazillion classes more than was needed for the application) and PHP projects which should be OOP'ed but consisted of about 500 files that included each other in a huge confusing net.
I've also had to take over projects where the original developer was using new technology because he thought it would be fun (at the expense of the customer). Having a huge website in PHP/MySQL and then having crucial parts of it in Ruby/PostreSQL is just a maintenance nightmare.
It's somewhat sad that when China executes people who opposes the regime, the rest of the world cry "Murder!", but when someone releases information embarresing to them, the line is not as clear.
The way I see it. If the documents had been released by "real" journalists (what defines a real journalist anyway?) 10 at a time, there would be no talk about hanging said journalists. When thousands of documents is released at one time, we suddenly call for his head?
Mod the parent up. I walked out 45 minutes in at the theaters and it took 5 sittings to get through on DVD. Am I missing something?
I'm interested in hearing what movies you actually think are any good?
There's really a trend in going all "That movie sucks!" against every popular movie, and I'm getting tired of it.
It might not be original, and maybe people can say "Oh pocahontas did it first!" but that doesn't change that it was a suspenseful, well-made film with some good points that people could think about.
It was actually from my bookmarks. I've played quite a bit around with the canvas element myself, and that's why I've got a lot of bookmarks.
Sorry about the confusion about "library". English is not my first language, and in my language library can also mean "collection of", so that's why I used that word.
The 3rd link was actually not the link I intended to post, I intended to post a link to this HTML 5 Game engine (More info in this article) which looks pretty good. It's in beta though, and I've got no hands on experience with it, but it looks promising.
The link I posted is still valid though, and can be found here: http://tommysmind.com/
It might not be updated any more but it's still a nice resource, if you've just started using the canvas element.
Understandible. It can be hard to seperate HTML5 content from flash content these days. However, there is games popping up at a pretty constant rate. For example, look at these links:
Another thought: The HTML5 canvas element and Java's AWT "Graphics" element are very alike. I wonder how long it takes for someone to program a converter, so all java applet/mobile games are available as HTML5 games?
Or whatever, rather than stating it as unlimited and then "defining" unlimited as something clearly NOT unlimited. It's like telling your buddy that you just "hung out" with his girlfriend last weekend and nothing more, but then trying to hide somewhere you're redefining "hung out" to really mean "banged like bunnies". In all other walks of life that's just called a lie.
I'm not against non-standard controls in general. I think that Guitar Hero has perfect controls for that kind of game.
Of course I was talking from my own point of view, and I realise that the controls might be perfect for some, but I guess that unlike you, I don't experience any resemblance of control in comparison to a mouse/keyboard. It might be because I have a big TV (I've heard that the Wiimote is more accurate on smaller TV's?), or it might be because I'm just too used to a mouse and keyboard, I don't know - I just know that after playing the first games I bought for the Wii, I gave up on it, I didn't even have the urge to finish any of the games.
The Wii get's old quick. I own a Wii with a extra Wiimote a Nunchuck and several games.
The problem is that the "revolutionary" control scheme gets old very very fast. After a week or so, we went back to Guitar Hero 1+2, which me an my SO have been having much more fun with. Several of my friends who also owns Wiis (There's no shortage of them here in Denmark) are facing the same issue, and most of them have sold theirs.
I agree somewhat. It can't be healthy when almost all stories in the news are negative. Of course I don't condone the censorship or directing the news-outlets to represent the United States as "the enemy", but more positive stories would be a good thing. Sadly this isn't what's being ordered. If the article is correct, then it's only 50% of the news about Russia that needs to be positive, and then it's probably worse than just portraiting only the bad news.
I woret he same rose tinted glasses for a long while, but after I tried a lot of the really great games I remembered from years ago, I have to say that most aren't that good. They were great then, but now they're not worth the effort.
There's still (as you say) some pure classics which can stand the test of time, but most of the games that you remember as good games, you'll be dissapointed to try out today..
Well, it was definately worth it for me. - But it's not always more flexible. Sometimes a customer has a deadline, and if you promised it done to that date and are late, then you're gonna have to pull some hard work-hours the last week or so to reach it.
Sure, there's some flexibility in the fact that you don't have to ask a boss for anything, but as soon as you get enough customers, you're pretty soon going to have the same workhours as you would in a normal job, because that's when people expect to be able to get hold of you over the phone, also it's a lot more difficult to fit in a vacation if you have lots of work piled up.
And lastly, watch out, it's very easy to become a work-o-holic.
I can't even understand why the Netscape name is still alive after all this time, it has gone through constant failures until the point where I don't even associate anything good about the name anymore.
I can't even see what good this deal does AOL, and it sounds like they payed a huge pile of dollars for a deal like this.
Erh... Think just a tiny bit before you post inane babble like that - The article was called "Microsoft Genuine Advantage[...]" and in the url it says "microsoft_genuine_ad". - See the resemblance? It's just an autogenerated filename their CMS came up with probably.
And now for something completely different (a comment about the article): I'm pretty sure the one who programmed this check knew that it wasn't bulletproof, and maybe it's just a case of a "proof of concept" project which suddenly becomes a "Gone live" project. - It will be pretty easy for them to fix, but it really is a huge embarassment for them, and you would think that a company with that kind of resources had rules to cover things like that (as in Rule #302742314 "Clientside checking is only okay if followed by a Serverside check").
Geez, when iTunes, WMA or DRM in general comes up, everyone screams for support of Linux and non-DRM - When someone actually chooses a vendor that works on Linux and doesn't have DRM, it's suddenly not good enough.
Well, tough luck - a company has got to start from somewhere, and with a business-deal like this backing them, it's very likely that they're going to grow at a fast rate and add a lot more music to their portfolio.
This is good news for everyone not interested in the chain and ball that is DRM.
I don't really see what's new about this solution - isn't this what web-developers have been doing for years?
I know that I and several other developers I know have made "standard" Javascript libraries to do just this. - It's not rocket science, and this solution even lacks the "SELECT" element, which can't be styled very much, and is a "heavyweight component"[1], which makes it a prime candidate for swapping with a DHTML component.
I'd say it's a bit soon to come to the conclusion that the company is not going under, because of the result of 3 financial months.
I'm not saying that the company IS going under, but it's pretty easy for a company to shuffle expenses off to the next quarter and make it seem like the current quarter is greater than it in fact really is - If we were talking about a complete fiscal year it would be more impressive.
Wouldn't it be possible to have a subdomain structure like:
video.google.com.whateverdomain.com
And then be able to use Google Video on your own site, without applying the patch at all?
Slashdot Mirror
People keep spouting this like it's gospel, and it might be legally correct, but that doesn't make it any less crappy for the consumers. Apple is on the way to be a more evil version of Microsoft when it was worst, and I think the world would be a better place if they were forced to be slightly more open.
I guess it says something about how long it takes to make professional games, that it's taken so long.
The real problem with this, is that soon advertisers will start making canvas ads instead of flash ads, and then what have end users really gained? The reason that Flash is hated is mostly because it's been misused. And now it will be easy to misuse HTML5/canvas too.
We can now use Javascript to do the same stuff that flash could for many years. Don't take me wrong. I love programming in javascript, and I like that I can now do these things. But what do normal, non-programming users get out of this? That they don't need a plugin? I'd bet most normal users doesn't even know what is flash and what is not. And the way I see it, the canvas-renderer isn't somehow more magic than the flash-engine. Except that it's built into the browser, but you could argue that you could just as well do that with Flash.
Until you spend enough time with it, to learn why the original programmer did as he did.
As I see it, most projects start out with a good structure and the best of intentions, and then comes deadlines and the developer having to juggle several projects at once, and then a shortcut is taken here, then there. And suddenly you end up with a non-documented project where the only person that knows how it works is the original developer.
There will however always be BAD code by bad programmers. I've taken over Java progress where everything was OOP'ed into hell (as in a bazillion classes more than was needed for the application) and PHP projects which should be OOP'ed but consisted of about 500 files that included each other in a huge confusing net.
I've also had to take over projects where the original developer was using new technology because he thought it would be fun (at the expense of the customer). Having a huge website in PHP/MySQL and then having crucial parts of it in Ruby/PostreSQL is just a maintenance nightmare.
It's somewhat sad that when China executes people who opposes the regime, the rest of the world cry "Murder!", but when someone releases information embarresing to them, the line is not as clear.
The way I see it. If the documents had been released by "real" journalists (what defines a real journalist anyway?) 10 at a time, there would be no talk about hanging said journalists. When thousands of documents is released at one time, we suddenly call for his head?
What are you smoking?
Not even Google have enough money for all that bugs in IE!
What are you smoking?
Not even Google have enough money for all that bugs in IE!
Mod the parent up. I walked out 45 minutes in at the theaters and it took 5 sittings to get through on DVD. Am I missing something?
I'm interested in hearing what movies you actually think are any good?
There's really a trend in going all "That movie sucks!" against every popular movie, and I'm getting tired of it.
It might not be original, and maybe people can say "Oh pocahontas did it first!" but that doesn't change that it was a suspenseful, well-made film with some good points that people could think about.
Hi Hellop,
Thanks for your corrections!
It was actually from my bookmarks. I've played quite a bit around with the canvas element myself, and that's why I've got a lot of bookmarks.
Sorry about the confusion about "library". English is not my first language, and in my language library can also mean "collection of", so that's why I used that word.
The 3rd link was actually not the link I intended to post, I intended to post a link to this HTML 5 Game engine (More info in this article) which looks pretty good. It's in beta though, and I've got no hands on experience with it, but it looks promising.
The link I posted is still valid though, and can be found here: http://tommysmind.com/ It might not be updated any more but it's still a nice resource, if you've just started using the canvas element.
No
Understandible. It can be hard to seperate HTML5 content from flash content these days. However, there is games popping up at a pretty constant rate. For example, look at these links:
Another thought: The HTML5 canvas element and Java's AWT "Graphics" element are very alike. I wonder how long it takes for someone to program a converter, so all java applet/mobile games are available as HTML5 games?
Or whatever, rather than stating it as unlimited and then "defining" unlimited as something clearly NOT unlimited. It's like telling your buddy that you just "hung out" with his girlfriend last weekend and nothing more, but then trying to hide somewhere you're redefining "hung out" to really mean "banged like bunnies". In all other walks of life that's just called a lie.
I KNEW you were still holding a grudge!
I'm not against non-standard controls in general. I think that Guitar Hero has perfect controls for that kind of game.
Of course I was talking from my own point of view, and I realise that the controls might be perfect for some, but I guess that unlike you, I don't experience any resemblance of control in comparison to a mouse/keyboard. It might be because I have a big TV (I've heard that the Wiimote is more accurate on smaller TV's?), or it might be because I'm just too used to a mouse and keyboard, I don't know - I just know that after playing the first games I bought for the Wii, I gave up on it, I didn't even have the urge to finish any of the games.
The Wii get's old quick. I own a Wii with a extra Wiimote a Nunchuck and several games.
The problem is that the "revolutionary" control scheme gets old very very fast. After a week or so, we went back to Guitar Hero 1+2, which me an my SO have been having much more fun with. Several of my friends who also owns Wiis (There's no shortage of them here in Denmark) are facing the same issue, and most of them have sold theirs.
I agree somewhat. It can't be healthy when almost all stories in the news are negative. Of course I don't condone the censorship or directing the news-outlets to represent the United States as "the enemy", but more positive stories would be a good thing. Sadly this isn't what's being ordered. If the article is correct, then it's only 50% of the news about Russia that needs to be positive, and then it's probably worse than just portraiting only the bad news.
Troll?
;)
I actually found that comment very funny. I wish I had mod points, but you can have this endorsing reply instead
Amen.
I woret he same rose tinted glasses for a long while, but after I tried a lot of the really great games I remembered from years ago, I have to say that most aren't that good. They were great then, but now they're not worth the effort.
There's still (as you say) some pure classics which can stand the test of time, but most of the games that you remember as good games, you'll be dissapointed to try out today..
Well, it was definately worth it for me. - But it's not always more flexible. Sometimes a customer has a deadline, and if you promised it done to that date and are late, then you're gonna have to pull some hard work-hours the last week or so to reach it.
Sure, there's some flexibility in the fact that you don't have to ask a boss for anything, but as soon as you get enough customers, you're pretty soon going to have the same workhours as you would in a normal job, because that's when people expect to be able to get hold of you over the phone, also it's a lot more difficult to fit in a vacation if you have lots of work piled up.
And lastly, watch out, it's very easy to become a work-o-holic.
7 years or so too late...
I can't even understand why the Netscape name is still alive after all this time, it has gone through constant failures until the point where I don't even associate anything good about the name anymore.
I can't even see what good this deal does AOL, and it sounds like they payed a huge pile of dollars for a deal like this.
You have no idea how good it feels when you finally 'hear' the music just by watching the lights...
Why don't you volunteer for a charity? It sounds like you have enough time on your hands to save the world singlehandedly.
And now I can.... uhm... How far is it to the moon again?
Erh... Think just a tiny bit before you post inane babble like that - The article was called "Microsoft Genuine Advantage[...]" and in the url it says "microsoft_genuine_ad". - See the resemblance? It's just an autogenerated filename their CMS came up with probably.
And now for something completely different (a comment about the article): I'm pretty sure the one who programmed this check knew that it wasn't bulletproof, and maybe it's just a case of a "proof of concept" project which suddenly becomes a "Gone live" project. - It will be pretty easy for them to fix, but it really is a huge embarassment for them, and you would think that a company with that kind of resources had rules to cover things like that (as in Rule #302742314 "Clientside checking is only okay if followed by a Serverside check").
Geez, when iTunes, WMA or DRM in general comes up, everyone screams for support of Linux and non-DRM - When someone actually chooses a vendor that works on Linux and doesn't have DRM, it's suddenly not good enough.
Well, tough luck - a company has got to start from somewhere, and with a business-deal like this backing them, it's very likely that they're going to grow at a fast rate and add a lot more music to their portfolio.
This is good news for everyone not interested in the chain and ball that is DRM.
I don't really see what's new about this solution - isn't this what web-developers have been doing for years?
I know that I and several other developers I know have made "standard" Javascript libraries to do just this. - It's not rocket science, and this solution even lacks the "SELECT" element, which can't be styled very much, and is a "heavyweight component"[1], which makes it a prime candidate for swapping with a DHTML component.
[1] Meaning that it's "on top" of everything else
I'd say it's a bit soon to come to the conclusion that the company is not going under, because of the result of 3 financial months.
I'm not saying that the company IS going under, but it's pretty easy for a company to shuffle expenses off to the next quarter and make it seem like the current quarter is greater than it in fact really is - If we were talking about a complete fiscal year it would be more impressive.
According to this,
+ const char* allowed_host = \"video.google.com\";
+ char * host_found = strstr(p_sys->url.psz_host, allowed_host);
Wouldn't it be possible to have a subdomain structure like:
video.google.com.whateverdomain.com
And then be able to use Google Video on your own site, without applying the patch at all?