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Hopefully we'll look back on today as the day the mobile web began to eclipse proprietary mobile platforms. Still a ways to go, though.

#1 [x] 11:07pm Apr 28th 2010 via web

@sprynmr I've always preferred the web, but native platforms have been kicking its ass. I go where the power is.

#2 [x] 11:50pm Apr 28th 2010 via web in reply to sprynmr

Redirect your hatred of Flash to the W3C, whose embarrassingly slow pace forced devs to use a plugin because the standards were so weak.

#3 [x] 10:20pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

Also, I am looking at you, developers who bitch whenever a browser offers "non-standard" but innovative APIs.

#4 [x] 10:29pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

Browser makers need to go nuts with non-standard APIs and let the W3C standardize later. Waiting for the committee to innovate is suicide.

#5 [x] 10:29pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

10 years ago we bullied Microsoft into stopping innovation on IE so the W3C could take over. How'd that work out?

#6 [x] 10:36pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

For those too young to remember, IE was innovating like crazy from 4.0 -6.0, right up until the DOJ and web standards commies intervened.

#7 [x] 10:40pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

@joehewitt heh. You said "web standards commies." Srsly, though, I don't think that was the wall IE ran into.

#8 [x] 10:43pm Apr 29th 2010 via TweetDeck in reply to joehewitt

I don't know why MS abandoned IE, but I do know that web developers were begging them to stop innovating and just follow the committee.

#9 [x] 11:45pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

Why are app stores threatening the web and luring developers like me away from it? "Evil" proprietary tech is blowing the web away.

#10 [x] 11:47pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

I want desperately to be a web developer again, but if I have to wait until 2020 for browsers to do what Cocoa can do in 2010, I won't wait.

#11 [x] 11:49pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

I am ranting because I want to drop Cocoa and go back to the web, but I am upset about how much power I have to give up to do that.

#12 [x] 11:55pm Apr 29th 2010 via web

How it should go: browsers innovate differently, users pick the best one, later W3C standardizes what users chose, losing browsers conform.

#13 [x] 12:03am Apr 30th 2010 via web

@eston Users might be aware of their choices if more developers wrote browser-specific sites. Developers really pick the winner.

#14 [x] 12:07am Apr 30th 2010 via web in reply to eston

@joehewitt and you arrive with incompatible websites and different versions of them. That's not a good idea.

#15 [x] 12:08am Apr 30th 2010 via Twitter for iPhone in reply to joehewitt

@michaelvillar So launch a different browser. Not a big deal. Know what is a big deal? Having to buy a different phone for each app store.

#16 [x] 12:10am Apr 30th 2010 via web in reply to michaelvillar

This guy agrees with me bit.ly/9CQTaW

#17 [x] 12:13am Apr 30th 2010 via web

I've been hard on Flash, but we should all thank Macromedia/Adobe for 10 years of picking up the slack of the W3C, Microsoft, and Mozilla.

#18 [x] 12:49am Apr 30th 2010 via web

And really, how screwed would we be if the WebKit team weren't so god damn competent? Ok, signing off now, thanks for listening. :)

#19 [x] 12:50am Apr 30th 2010 via web