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From: MaxS on 4 Apr 2010 15:20 On 04/04/2010 02:17 PM, Steve Hix wrote: > See, that's the difference between listening to the voices in your head, > and actual experience with reality. The "voices in my head" tell me that, for the same kind of money, I'm much better off waiting for a netbook with a 12" screen and a more capable CPU that will send HD to my TV set. Just an opinion, of course. I all depends on how you love Apple's toys.
From: BreadWithSpam on 4 Apr 2010 15:39 MaxS <maxs(a)ljhjkjkhkh.com> writes: > True, but the real reason is that, since Flash is all over the net, > anytime you'll want to have "moving pictures" on the Pad, iTune will > be the "natural" choice. Not at all. Youtube was on board early. Netflix is readying an iPad app, and Hulu's been working on one, too, reportedly. The iPhone and iPad support the HTML5 standard for video embedded in web pages. Which, if you want to do video, is the right thing to do. As for non-video uses of Flash, there are a few places where it will be missed - my favorite example is the NY Times interactive timelines. But the other ones -- games are often coming out as Apps, and as a general (and horrible) substitute for writing a proper web page, hopefully this latter will just go away anyway. -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed.
From: Barry Margolin on 4 Apr 2010 15:50 In article <yob39zb9fdo.fsf(a)panix1.panix.com>, BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote: > As for non-video uses of Flash, there are a few places where it will > be missed - my favorite example is the NY Times interactive timelines. > But the other ones -- games are often coming out as Apps, and as a > general (and horrible) substitute for writing a proper web page, > hopefully this latter will just go away anyway. My favorite example is Bridge Base Online (www.bridgebase.com). The programmers have not expressed any intent to rewrite the Flash app for the iPad. It's a small operation, they don't have the resources to maintain multiple versions (they rewrote the client from a native Windows app to Flash a couple of years ago, and now only make critical fixes to the Windows version). -- Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
From: Lloyd Parsons on 4 Apr 2010 16:15 In article <barmar-2D80DA.15504304042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Barry Margolin <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote: > In article <yob39zb9fdo.fsf(a)panix1.panix.com>, > BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote: > > > As for non-video uses of Flash, there are a few places where it will > > be missed - my favorite example is the NY Times interactive timelines. > > But the other ones -- games are often coming out as Apps, and as a > > general (and horrible) substitute for writing a proper web page, > > hopefully this latter will just go away anyway. > > My favorite example is Bridge Base Online (www.bridgebase.com). The > programmers have not expressed any intent to rewrite the Flash app for > the iPad. It's a small operation, they don't have the resources to > maintain multiple versions (they rewrote the client from a native > Windows app to Flash a couple of years ago, and now only make critical > fixes to the Windows version). Sorry that isn't going to be there for you now. But if the iPad sells as well as I think it will and the users of Bridge Base Online get enough requests, they will make it work on the iPad. Or someone else will come along with a similar service that does work with the iPad. All depends on sales and demand... -- Lloyd
From: sbt on 4 Apr 2010 16:52
In article <barmar-2D80DA.15504304042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Barry Margolin <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote: > In article <yob39zb9fdo.fsf(a)panix1.panix.com>, > BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net wrote: > > > As for non-video uses of Flash, there are a few places where it will > > be missed - my favorite example is the NY Times interactive timelines. > > But the other ones -- games are often coming out as Apps, and as a > > general (and horrible) substitute for writing a proper web page, > > hopefully this latter will just go away anyway. > > My favorite example is Bridge Base Online (www.bridgebase.com). The > programmers have not expressed any intent to rewrite the Flash app for > the iPad. It's a small operation, they don't have the resources to > maintain multiple versions (they rewrote the client from a native > Windows app to Flash a couple of years ago, and now only make critical > fixes to the Windows version). I totally agree, Barry. I've also sent missives to BBO about doing a "mobile-device friendly" client and they keep sending me the same tired "Flash or Windows" version reference. It's almost enough to send me back to OKBridge, but most of the folks I play with online had already migrated to BBO. Of course, I was a dinosaur on OKB, still using the original text-based unix client from the shell rather than their OKWin or OKWeb client. -- Spenser |