Well, not any worse than any other cross-platform technology. This has been bugging me for a while now. You know, the clueless managers that ask you questions like “HTML5 seems to have a performance issue, it doesn’t run well on my Internet Explorer 6!”. This has to stop. It’s generally accepted that PS3 Games don’t [...]
Some of you might heard about it already (especially the one’s connected on Facebook), but I didn’t want to make it public before it’s 100% official. Today we finally received our visa, after a months-long struggle that made us gipsies for almost two months (personal advice: Never quit your apartment contract before receiving the final [...]
Edit (Feb 26th 2013): Vilmos Ioo highlighted on a Twitter comment that defaults are a bad thing. I agree. This is why I reworded some of the language about Chrome below. My intent is to get everbody off the Android stock browser, not everybody exclusively onto Chrome. Nope. That is, at the very least, what [...]
Performance TutorialIf you are a web developer, the strangely named MIHTool (MIH for “make it happen”) will make you happy. If you mostly work on mobile web applications, this will change your life. It’s the missing developer tool you wanted for so long, and Apple didn’t give you. MIHTool really does makes it happen. You say [...]
First things first: Web Audio is the real deal, and works impressively well on iOS-running devices. Even the biggest annoying limitation of the ugly HTML5 Audio past is gone – being able to play back only one sound at a time. Though, one important limitation remains on iOS: Web Audio is effectively muted until user [...]
3D movies are gaining in popularity but when they first arrived, many critics deemed the technology as a short-lived boom, as it had too many issues. Movie goers complained about headaches, blurry and dark pictures. In 2012, a lot of the first step mistakes have been addressed. The Hobbit was – in selected cinemas, at [...]
If you are responsible for the equipment of your development team, you should read this. If you’re not, read it anyway and hand it to your boss. Chances are that if you ever talked to a few software developers, you heard them complain about the work equipment. Have you ever heard a concert pianist complain [...]
What do Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and CNN have in common? They’re filling my screen with white, blank voidness. We, who build the web, have failed at creating interior design (read: web design) that match the exterior design and architecture of our properties (read: screens in various sizes). In 2012, we might be on the right [...]
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