Robert X Cringely has written a nice piece on Adobe’s platform technologies: Flash, PDF, Flex, and AIR (formerly Apollo). I think this discussion of the value of invisibility at the beginning of the articule is particularly apt:
Al Mandel, who helped market the original LaserWriter at Apple and later had several high-level positions at AOL, used [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Cringely on AIR
29Jun07 – 11:57
iPhoney
11Jun07 – 14:50
It makes me sad that I’m going to have to write something negative here: I was really looking forward to seeing what Apple had in store for us developers and Mac users with Leopard and the iPhone. Unfortunately my expectations overall weren’t met, and the whole keynote ended on a really off note.
But first, let [...]
I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like Flash…
08Jun07 – 15:54
A couple of months ago, I posted a provocatively titled article: “The Death Of UI Consistency”. In it, I argued that the web had made obsolete the original Mac goal of having 100% consistency of UI across all applications:
But I don’t blame Apple or Adobe for the death of the goal. What really killed that [...]
Flex goes deep
06Jun07 – 18:31
We build a lot of Flex applications here at Adobe. One of the things that we’ve always struggled with is how to build Flex-based web applications that are bookmarkable, work with the back button, and so forth. There has been various solutions offered in the past, most notably Joe Berkovitz’ UrlKit. But the big problem [...]
