As found on the web (February 9th)

Posted Tech tensions. Liked Jose James – CODE MUSIC VIDEO. Posted SublimeVideo Hopes to Simplify HTML5 Web Video. Posted HTML vs. Flash: Can a turf war be avoided?. Posted Firefox Takes First Baby Steps on Android. Published Embedding YouTube HTML5-video with newTube. Posted Teens Just Don’t Blog or Tweet [STATS]. Liked Massive Attack – Paradise … Read more

Enhanced privacy for embedded YouTube

While looking into the possibility to play embedded YouTube clips with html5’s video-element on this blog, I noticed Google added an ‘Enable privacy-enhanced mode‘ flag to the embed-options. This small tweak ensures that visitors who arrive on a page that has YouTube embedded, don’t immediately get tracking cookies stuffed down their throat. Unless they play … Read more

Flash isn’t evil, but …

Last week’s prediction about Flash becoming irrelevant was pretty controversial, and some of you Flashheads had interesting remarks and -rhetorical- questions both in the comments and on Twitter (a big shout-out to Clo Willaerts for sharing). So without further ado, here’s my follow-up. Flash isn’t evil Some people seemed all too happy to dismiss my … Read more

2010: the year Flash became irrelevant

My 2nd prediction for 2010 (the first one being ‘offline is the new online‘): the glory days of Flash are over. The reason for this is twofold; the mobile web and the strong advances “open web” technology is making. Open web moving in, fast Remember the days when everybody wanted to spice up otherwise dull … Read more

As found on the web (January 11th)

Posted GLGE. Liked Chris Garneau – “Fireflies”. Posted Firefox development dilemma: Tweak or overhaul?. Posted Commodore 64 JavaScript Emulator. Posted Nexus One: The Best Android Phone Yet. Posted Google’s Web Store Is Today’s Mobile Disruption. Posted A basic usability test on ten phones. Posted Firefox 3.6 Available to Testers on Friday. Published Persistent offline data … Read more

As found on the web (November 17th)

Shared Launching the Jetpack Gallery. Liked 2 videos. Shared iPhone or Droid. Shared On Middle Men. Shared Android 2.0 source released, already ported to the G1. Shared 5 Impressive Real-Life Google Wave Use Cases. Published Voorspelling 2010: offline is het nieuwe online. Shared Weave Sync 1.0 Beta 1 released. Shared a proposal: resource packages to … Read more

As found on the web (October 29th)

Shared Video on the Web – Dive Into HTML5. Liked The Dynamics – 7 Nation Army. Shared Nokia suing Apple over the iPhone. Shared Left vs Right (World) | David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec | Information Is Beautiful. Shared Opera Mini Now Serving Over 500 Million Pageviews Per Day. Shared Tech advice from Tim Berners-Lee. … Read more

As found on the web (October 1st)

Shared 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines. Shared Quoteworthy: buying an iPhone is like buying a beautiful coat made of the skins of endagered species. Shared New Firefox Demos Show Off WebGL’s Powerful 3-D Potential. Published WebTech news (september 2009). Shared Content Aware Image Resizing implemented with JavaScript. Shared Android : Google part à la … Read more