Archive for June, 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

<canvas id="foo"> – what's the diff between foo.width and document.getElementById("foo").width ? # Most companies in Brantford have an email address, but about half of them are hotmail or ISP addresses, and most don't check them. # What a mess. http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/tableViewport.html # Well that's odd – this morning's Tweetie update removed my stevex account. # I […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

@travelmop You'd need a vulnerability with an attack that also exploits a local root vulnerability. It can happen but it's rare. in reply to travelmop # The original iPhone only supported HTML apps. It was too early for that then, but how about today? # A quick recap of the oil spill to date and […]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-06

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

This has got to be photoshopped. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/31/honduras.storm.emergency/index.html?hpt=T1 # http://www.royalbank.com is reporting domain not found .. that's odd # They're about to snip the pipe. http://tinyurl.com/368ll3a #bp # Nice live video of the CRAW crushing one of the pipes at the spill site. http://tinyurl.com/368ll3a # @travelmop These guys are pokey. in reply to travelmop # Looks […]

Apple’s Safari Demos aren’t HTML5 Demos

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Looking at http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/styles/html5.css: It says right on the page (in an image, for some reason) that these are Safari demos, not HTML5 demos.

HTML5 should not mean “Requires Safari”

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Hand of Greed is being promoted as an HTML5 game. But it only works on Safari. I’m afraid this is where we’re headed. It’s difficult today to make a web app that works across the major browsers, and HTML5 adds a whole lot of complexity on top of that. IE still has huge market share, […]