The inverse of the assertion made in this article (i.e. anonymity leads to bad behavior) has already been theoretically predicted in "John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory": http://www.pennyarcademerch.com/pat070381.html

I'd love to see someone come up with actual facts around this Flash on Mac issue. There seems to be somewhat of a shortage of facts. Gruber has mostly hearsay (although he is very convincing with that).

We'd need to do real benchmarking for various sorts of flash content. What about poorly written ActionScript in the SWF? Does it matter when you are running multiple instances of the player, etc.

These ongoing political speculations are entertaining, but they are getting us nowhere.

As posted twice in this thread already: http://www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html

They're currently burning a lot of cycles just drawing to the screen.

Yep, that is already quite interesting. He doesn't say how this compares to the situation on windows (and linux). Nevertheless - this is already far more substantial.

Very nice. Here's a feature suggestion: allow me to specify the two locations in the URL so I can create bookmarks to pairs that I use all the time (e.g. Hamburg/NewYork, Hamburg/SanFrancisco...).

Psst: this can help you for SEO if you do it right. (Though you'd have to add a bit of content/links to have a hope of getting all of them indexed.)

Interesting ideas - I was trying to think about creative but still useful SEO techniques... something Yelp-like. This might be it.

Nice. I didn't realize today's HTML implementations were handling soft hyphens. When I last tried that it didn't work, but that was a long time ago.

They sort-of work. It’s far from perfect. Do your own testing before you rely on browsers.

I don't see how HTML5 makes authoring tools (commercial or not) redundant. Do you expect people that are relying on visual authoring software to migrate to writing HTML5/JS/CSS in a text editor "just because"?

I meant their particular authoring tools, which output Flash rather than HTML5.

They could adjust them to output HTML5 with Flash fallback, and that would be a Good Thing. But it seems odd to keep on going with a poorly integrated[1] plugin which duplicates the work done in open HTML+JS runtimes available everywhere from desktops to smartphones[2].

1) eg Flash 'cookies' which don't get wiped when you delete your cookies in the browser.

2) And 'superphones', of course. :-)

So we agree that there is a lot of room for innovation in the space of tools enabling people to output to the HTML5 stack.

Absolutely. And it would be a good thing, since every new internet connected platform is going to implement an HTML5 runtime, and the more people who can create stuff the better.

Nice way to look out for an employer with sense of humor. This will be dismissed by all the people you wouldn't want to be working for in the first place. Unless you are really desperate, it looks like a great strategy to end up working with people that are actually nice.

Yes this is a great way to weed out all those stodgy kids-movie-and-video-game animation studios.

Hello pot. This is kettle. You're black.

Would you like to expand on your claim? Be quite clear that i dislike both languages. VBS is the worst of the two though.

> It'd be SO easy to fake even ridiculously complex performances

Given the number of full playback performances that are already happening, I don't suppose the faking could get any worse. "Real" musicians will never fake a performance others in the industry will use all means available to them to fake their way to fame and fortune. Both ends of this spectrum are targeting different audiences though.

I recall seeing Jethro Tull back on their Under Wraps tour. I don't recall which song, but one of the tracks from that record features a repeating synth riff. The keyboardist (a hired gun) actually made a bit of a show with this, if you had your eye on him. He recorded the riff into his sequencer in realtime (which I guess should count as "real" rather than "fake") and then stood back and held up his hands as if to say "Look, Ma, no hands".

Notice how similar this is to what happened when programming computers was made easier through the introduction of high level languages. CSS (and HTML) are the the Assembly Language of web page layout. The more standardized they become, the more it makes sense to use higher level abstractions in order to produce code. JavaScript frameworks which hide particularities of the different browsers are another part of the same equation. This is progress.

Heh. Someone didn't finish reading the article (including at least 5 others who thought this comment was insightful).

This is exactly my point.

The idea seems good. Have you thought about asking someone with experience in web design to make a more streame-lined and less clunky version of the landing page? I think you are on a good way in terms of keeping it simple but in my humble opinion the execution isn't quite there yet. I'm not that competent of a designer myself but I'd bet someone who knows his stuff could improve the page quite a bit.