There's no denying that Jonas Daehnert's mock-up of a Windows Phone using Surface's finish and design aesthetic looks great. But a shortage of good-looking phones isn't the problem Microsoft has to address. We've argued before on these pages that Microsoft should build its own smartphones. The real money in the smartphone market doesn't come from licensing an operating system, as Microsoft does with Windows Phone, or apps, as Google … [Read more...]
For all JavaScript's prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don't like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce something better. As is typical among programmers, nobody can quite agree on which bits of JavaScript are the problem. For some, JavaScript is mostly good enough, just a little awkward and ugly to write, so we have, for example, the popular CoffeeScript … [Read more...]
Net Marketshare Once again, Firefox has maintained its grip on second place, behind Internet Explorer. And as Chrome falls away, there's now a gap of more than one percentage point between the browsers. During 2011, Chrome's rise was unstoppable, and it looked as if taking second place was an inevitability. In 2012, Google's browser has come close, but never quite managed to close the gap, even with Google's extensive advertising and … [Read more...]
Adobe today launched the first products and services in its Edge suite of HTML5 development tools. Adobe Edge Animate 1.0 aids Web developers and designers in the creation of animation and interactive content; Edge Inspect (formerly called Shadow) provides simultaneous cross-mobile-device previewing and debugging. The third product to go live today was Edge Web Fonts, a new font service offering more than 500 free fonts including two new ones … [Read more...]
Web developers are reporting that the Safari Web browser in iOS 6 is breaking the applications they're writing thanks to aggressive caching. Discussion of the issue on Stack Overflow explains that Safari is remembering the server responses to certain requests and then reusing those responses, even though a new response should be requested every time. Web requests can take many forms, but there are two main kinds: GET and POST. As a general rule, … [Read more...]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that manages development of the main specifications used by the Web, has proposed a new plan that would see the HTML 5 spec positioned as a Recommendation—which in W3C's lingo represents a complete, finished standard—by the end of 2014. The group plans a follow-up, HTML 5.1, for the end of 2016. Under the new plan, the HTML Working Group will produce an HTML 5.0 Candidate Recommendation by the … [Read more...]
This week the folks at the app called gMusic have … [Read Entire Article]
It seems like minimalism is gaining popularity, as … [Read Entire Article]
GRID 2 comes out next week, and you can pre-order … [Read Entire Article]
Hints at the comprehensive interface changes … [Read Entire Article]
The Guardian (blog)20 best iPhone and iPad apps this weekThe Guardian (blog)Comic-book app Kung Fu Robot is supposedly for children, but really it should appeal to anyone with a yen for robots, ninjas and/or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. This is …
Business InsiderWhy you should do your own mobile app store research before buying a phoneGigaOMCanalys reports the mobile app gap is still big when it comes to Windows Phone and BlackBerry offering the top titles. But a closer look at the stores shows…
Don't forget these apps when packing for your Disney tripGigaOMKnow before you go: the best iOS apps for planning for, getting around and navigating the lines at Disney World. Disney Resort Apps. One thing you will not see in Disney's own Carou…
