The brainiacs over at Sencha have put together some excellent examples of CSS3 ads alongside Flash equivalents and ask you to spot the difference
http://www.sencha.com/deploy/css3-ads/
And here’s the article showing you the CSS and how they did it.
http://www.sencha.com/blog/2010/07/20/html5-family-css3-ads-versus-flash-ads/
Freshmeat are reporting an update to the open-source SWFTools package with increases in performance of the pdf2swf tool and fixes to numerous bugs.
“SWFTools is a collection of code for handling Flash .SWF-files. This includes a
merging tool (swfcombine), an extracting tool (swfextract),
PDF/JPEG/PNG/AVI/TTF/WAV to SWF converters (pdf2swf, jpeg2swf, png2swf, avi2swf,
font2swf, and wav2swf), a text parsing tool (swfstrings), an SWF parser
(swfdump), and a library for writing and reading SWFs (rfxswflib).”
“Think we’d all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn’t exactly a clear winner. Jan Ozer’s article can be found at http://www.streaminglearningcenter.com/articles/flash-player-cpu-hog-or-hot-tamale-it-depends-.html
Mike Chambers has an additional piece as well from his own testing:
Relative Performance of Rich Media Content across Browsers and Operating Systems (does not ‘perform consistently worse on Mac than on Windows’).
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/03/01/relative-performance-of-rich-media-content-across-browsers-and-operating-systems/
This is a bit of an old article, sorry but it managed to not get published when it was supposed to.
Am seeing reports of a major DNS outage affecting DENIC on Wednesday 12th, seems as iof iot’s been resolved now, further info here:
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20100512-27149.html (English)
http://www.focus.de/digital/internet/denic-probleme-wie-das-deutsche-internet-verschwand_aid_507660.html (German)
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-ticker/news,rendertext=12523314.html (German)
http://www.stern.de/digital/online/serverprobleme-bei-denic-massive-stoerungen-im-deutschen-internet-1565993.html (German)
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/12/1457240/Millions-ofnobr-wbrnobrde-Domains-Unreachable-For-Hours
Webmonkey have secured themselves some good video interviews last week at Web 2.0 Expo. Here Douglas Crockford talks about the future of Javascript & HTML5.
Interesting interview with Adobe’s Kevin Lynch Web 2.0 Expo 2010: From this link on Wired/Webmonkey
Techdirt reports that gaming site The Escapist has apparently banned users who mention the Firefox add-on Adblock. After much user anger they listened to their users and later un-banned those them but it seems to have left a bitter taste in the users mouths.
Just a bit of fun, but made me laugh, thanks to Steve Culverwell:
If you work in AdOps then you’ll know that screngrabs/screen-captures can be labourious and time consuming to create. Yes, there are already a number of tools out there but where Jing differs is it’s integration with hosting site screencast.com meaning you can easily snap, upload and share your screengrabs with anyone.
Jing comes to us courtesy of TechSmith, the people behind the other great screen-capture tool SnagIt.
So perhaps this goes some way to explaining Apples refusal to let Adobe anywhere near their mobile platforms. Control the technology, the platform and the means of production.
I’m keen to have a mooch/play around under the hood, hopefully I’ll be proved wrong. The current Apple App submission process is far from being a smooth and easy process, it’s slow and cumbersome and communication is poor. Now add in iAds to the mix… and what if Apple don’t like the ads we’ve submitted, what if they don;t meet their exacting criteria? Only time will tell. And lastly…
And lastly, Apple are demanding 40% of revenues, which seems rather high.
Update: 2010-04-13 17:18pm – Here’s some links to related articles as the story unfolds.
Apple to Lend Hand to iAd Producers [AdAge]
Apple iAd Platform: A Case of the Rich Getting Richer [PCMag]
iAd for the Win as iPhone 4′s Biggest Blockbuster [Macnewsworld]
Is Apple Trying to Create a Mobile Ad Monopoly on the iPhone? [148apps]
The latter article deals with a clause in the Developers agreement that states:
Section 3.3.9:
…the use of third party software in Your Application to collect and send Device Data to a third party for processing or analysis is expressly prohibited.
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