This article about Novell’s Moonlight project made me giggle (via Hack The Planet - hi Wes!). I was wondering just the other day about how Miguel de Icaza, a very smart and talented guy, ended up in a career spent developing one Microsoft-clone project after another. Evolution, Gnome, Mono, Moonlight. Just think what he could [...]
Category Archives: Openness
IE8 passes Acid2
19Dec07 – 15:32
Congratulations to the IE team on making IE8 pass ACID2. The IE Blog post goes on and on about why backwards compatibility is so important to the IE team. You can skip all that and just read the last three paragraphs before Dean Hachamovitch’s signature. Bottom line is this is a big milestone for the [...]
Adobe’s Christmas Present for Mobile Developers
18Dec07 – 16:34
Tamarin-Tracing: Open source ActionScript3 VM for mobile platforms, contributed to Mozilla’s Tamarin Project. Written in Forth! I personally can’t wait to bring our Flex3 apps down to the mobile platform…
[Update 12-19-2007: fixed name of technology. thanks for the correction.]
The Cynical Side of The iPhone SDK Announcement
19Oct07 – 05:48
John Gruber has written an excellent article on the iPhone SDK announcement and what it might mean. I too had wondered whether Apple would try to position Dashboard widgets as the application model for the iPhone, and I’m not yet convinced that this isn’t what they will do. John points out that JavaScript is too [...]
