Matt Gertner of AllPeers wrote a post the other day titled, “Wither Mozpad?” In it he poses a question about the enduring viability of Mozpad, an initiative begat in May to bring together independent Mozilla Platform Application Developers, to fill the vacuum left by Mozilla’s Firefox-centric developer programs. Now, many months after its founding, the [...]
By Chris Messina
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Posted in Microformats, Technology, The Web Arts, Usability, Web building
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Also tagged adobe, air, Browsers, Fluid, fluid.app, Microformats, microsoft, Mozpad, Prism, silverlight, site-specific browsers
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There’s been a flurry of activity in web standards land lately, with Opera taking on Microsoft in Europe over their failure to conform to web standards, while Andy “Malarkey” Clarke calls BS on the whole CSS Working Group thing, pointing to the complicity and corruption that comes with entrenched vendors having little to no incentive [...]
Ian might be right, but not because of Steve’s announcement today about opening up the iPhone. Indeed, my reaction so far has been one of quasi-resignation and disappointment. A voice inside me whimpers, “Don’t give up on the web, Steve! Not yet!” You have to understand that when I got involved in helping to plan [...]