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March 7thGoogle: Making AJAX Applications Crawlable
A new proposal from Mountain View, which seeks to ‘help’ SWFAddress-ed AJAX sites get searched.
This band-aid would require much the same labor as a properly built, progressively enhanced site, without the benefits to programmer sanity and code-cleanliness.
(The suggestion of using a server-side headless browser like HtmlUnit as a proxy was very clever, though.)
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February 23rdYouTube to kill IE6 support on March 13
It’s as though we’ve been waiting for a sleeping giant to roll over, and thus smite our enemies.
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February 19th
Testing informs designers, it doesn’t magically produce judgement.
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February 11thA History of Computing, According to Crockford
Yahoo’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford has been participating in a five-event lecture series, entitled ‘Crockford on JavaScript.’ Opinionated and engaging, he aims to present an in-depth survey of the world’s most popular programming language.
This first installment illuminates the history of computing, including how this future-forward field has accumulated such detritus.
Perhaps my favorite takeaway comes from one of his first slides:
The people who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.
Watch and learn.
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[With the iPad], it’s not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, ‘Oh my God, Microsoft didn’t aim high enough.’
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February 5th
Augmented (hyper)Reality: an AR overdose. William Gibson
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February 4th
With a few million businesses and a few billion consumers on the Web, rumor has it there are some interesting opportunities to be had.
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February 2ndRemoving Features
It’s the right thing to do.
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January 28th
A sidenote: when you finally do worry about execution, fret a lot.
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Can’t Catch Me
Daniel Jalkut (indie Mac developer) explains that for interfaces, the web is simply playing catch-up to native applications, and likely always will be.
