I’m not trying to beat a dead horse or kick a man while they’re down, but what else can I do to voice my displeasure with Apple’s handling of their “HTML 5″ demos?
The first clue was when navigating to the demos page with Chrome 5.x. I was promptly met with a dialog box saying that I needed to download Safari to take advantage of these new fangled tricks. But as OS News points out, Chrome in particular actually has better HTML 5 standards support than Safari.
The whole grand show about CSS3 isn’t spot on either. Apple is making use of “-webkit-border-radius” when the real CSS3 code is “-border-radius”. That little difference means only Webkit browsers will understand the round border idea while others such as Firefox and Opera do not. Ya, that’s pretty shitty. Guess Apple’s definition of “open” and “HTML5″ aren’t quite what the rest of the world has set forward. Apple really is turning into the Microsoft of the decade with their forceful “it’s my way or the highway” ways. Funny how history repeats itself…
The rest of OS’s article is worth giving a look over, so go on ahead and stop by.
- February 23, 2010 1:28 pm
If you’re still using IE 6 on your own terms, turn of the computer now. For the rest of you being forced by “the man”, you have my sympathies. IE 6 is the poster child for living well past your prime. Thankfully YouTube and Google are coming around and realizing that at some point, the madness has to stop. For IE 6 related madness, March 13th is the end of all days according to a fairly invasive new banner/page that is displayed when visiting the video hub on said browser.
Ok, maybe not “end of all” days as you’ll still be able to go to YouTube via IE 6 and fill your eye balls with all kinds of motion picture goodness. “End of most days” seems more appropriate.
Any visits after March 13th made on IE 6 will still result in a rather normal video watching experience. It’s just that any new and spiffy features that get added after the fact probably won’t work on IE 6. It’s just too…well, old.
It’s ok though. While you move on to a new favorite browser, IE 6 will live on within the locked confines of stubborn/stagnant/lazy corporations and dark, dingy basements of technologically incompetent people alike. Anyone want to admit they’re still using IE 6…for any reason?
ArsTechnica
One of the biggest complaints end users had concerning the Nexus One can officially be crossed off of the list of “reasons not to buy” today. The announcement of the first (and only) Nexus One support hotline should be the sounding horn of relief for many agitated Nexus One owners who have found the answers and pleas help go pretty much unanswered until this point.
For interested parties, dialing (888) 48NEXUS (63987) between the hours of and 7:00 am – 10:00 pm PST from here on out will result in getting to a nice warm bodied human sooner or later. It’s worth throwin’ in that normally the Goog’s isn’t too chipper in the support department for any of it’s products. That withstanding, it’s important to realize the radically different product and user market of the Nexus One and the challenges and required support that come standard with phone.
Nexus One owners: have you reached out for Google’s late yet gracious lifeline of support? If you manage to phone up the number listed above, give us some oh so interesting details like how long it took you to get through and how many phone techs you had to go through before you question was answered/solved. We’d be so appreciative, really we would.
Slashgear > Cnet
- December 14, 2009 10:06 pm
In our day and age, no one ever wants to recycle, use someone else’s old stuff, or even take a refurb. Sure doing so reduces on various planet sucking resources but that’s not what anyone cares about. God forbid their *insert product here* have a hairline scratch that somehow takes away from the overall enjoyment. Out of nowhere rant aside, Gizmodo reader Nic H sent in pictures claiming to be a new repair method being explored by Microsoft.
Obviously his model is a refurb as they don’t come from the store all nice and new looking quite like that. Maybe Microsoft was merely trying to save on excess plastic by strategically removing pieces here and there no? Whatever the case, getting a RRoD, waiting eons, then receiving your console in a condition such as is pictured above and below would surprise anyone I’m sure. To give credit where it’s due, Microsoft did ship the unit with nice, plush green foam did they not….?
I’m all about cool Xbox mods. Someone really needs to come up with a beat to hell mod that looks like it was beat through all kinds of hell. Just without the — you know — actual beating to the point of claiming the internal components’ lives. Anyone up to the challenge?
Gizmodo
