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Web Missing in Action is comments about Web features that, due to the Microsoft-induced Deep Freeze on Web Innovation of 2001 to 2006, have never appeared in HTML, JavaScript, CSS or mashups in a standard way. Now that Microsoft is  finally making amends in IE9  for not having kept its last century promises to implement […]

The NYTimes has done something about the US Budget and its huge deficits that is most commendable – it has made the sprawling size and growth of the US Federal Government budget understandable. Not Business Week, not Forbes, not the Wall Street Journal nor any other of the Titans of the Business Press have done

This blog has argued that Software Fragementation is occurring with 3 added levels of complexity in client software development: 1)the complexity of as many as a dozen new client OS platforms with new APIs and coding; 2)the added UI complexity of multi-touch screen and Wii/Kinect-like sensor state tracking + control; 3)the complexity of delivering offline

Given that no love has supposedly been lost between them, it is passingly strange that Apple’s Steve Jobs appears to be secretly helping  Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer. What? Can’ t ye Editor see that Apple’s Steve Jobs has been applying a whupping to  Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer for the past ten years. Just check  the new multimedia

The Levolor.ca Natural Woven Blinds page is an example of HTML5 with jQuery in the wild. If you click on the image you will see a lot of the sophisticated HTML5/CSS3 nifty tricks on display. There may be more life in HTML5/CSS3 than ye Keep an Open Eye editors figured. Here are some of the

Adobe is rising because of AIR and Flash. Android, RIM, and all the other major smartphone and tablet players are embracing Flash because it gives them a compelling competitive advantage. Over 85% of websites use some Flash content. But more importantly Flash and AIR apps that run on the PC also run on most other

Apple’s announcement today, the new Lion 10.7 Mac OS X with Multi-touch confirmed that as a politician Steve Jobs would be hopeless in the current political climate. Here was Steve Jobs telling his audience that they, Apple, have studied the problem and multi-touch just does not work on vertical screens – so Apple will not

Diverse IT pundits agree on one thing – Windows Phone 7 to be announced on Monday is going to be a train wreck. The only question is how big and how fast. First, eWeek establishes why Windows Phone 7 will be way behind the state of the smartphone art with this ten point presentation. Now

Adobe has released its best Web Development program since Dreamweaver and its free. Adobe Widget Browser is a library for JavaScript and HTML5 Cross-Platform GUI Widgets. The price of admission is free with registering on Adobe Exchange. The payoff is a way to not only scan prospective Web GUI widgets for use; but to try

With so many good WordPress themes available for free directly from the WordPress site – what is the advantage of an online WordPress theme generator beyond the novelty of it all. Well as it turns out, the way that Yvo Schaap has delivered his WPThemeGenerator proves to be quite useful: The way Yvo has setup

RIM scored very big with its new tablet, the Playbook. But first lets us clarify the biggest play for RIM – buying software developer QNX in the Spring of this year. QNX has been developing UI-based OS for a number of industrial clients and they have a not just a solid but GUI robust OS.

Microsoft is certainly putting the Windows faithful to another testing. Vista was an excruciating  trial; but now this [see screenshot below]. More than 50% of Windows users are on Windows XP and Redmond is ignoring if not insulting  them. Now Redmond insists that the issue is that hardware acceleration for IE9 browser is unavailable on

Microsoft’s Vista at the outset got kid glove reviews from many of the tech and business sites. See here for a symptom analysis. So PC users had to endure what was a beta-kludge update of Windows at  higher costs for nearly two years. And as always is the case with Redmond … just wait until

Its becoming abundantly clear that Apple TV and Google TV are two different things. See Gizmodo on AppleTV See TechCrunch on Google TV as delivered by Logitach It is clear that Apple is getting its iTunes rentals more TV and video busoness on a streaming only and rental only business modeland rental business. In contrast,

NYTimes has confirmed what a lot of smartphone and iDevice users have know for ages[in Gadget-speak that is more than a year] – touch screens work very, Very, VERY effectively, thank you. This blog has been saying so for a long time that touch screen plus gestures is the magic UI ingredient which will unleash

HTML is really getting hyped. This site is an example. But here is a very well crafted demo which makes the case. The demo uses exactly 5  statements in HTML5: <!DOCTYPE html> <canvas id=”theapt” width=”100″ height=”100″></canvas> and <audio id=”audio”> Your browser does not support the <code>audio</code> element. </audio> while all of the rest of the

The following is a demo of  the HTML5 <canvas> tag in operation: If you cannot see this nifty demo try any of the following: 1 2 3 or 4. Now some other nifty Canvas demos and references: HTML5 Canvas cheat sheets – very helpful for using <canvas> scripting. BillMalone – detailed example of using canvas

Previously Keep an Open Eye reported persistent Google outages of several minutes. Some readers complained that the provider, Rogers.com in this case, was having DNS problems. Well the latest recurrence of a Google search outage would seem to belie that fact. First, note that the latest Chrome 5.0 browser is being used  in all cases

One of the major security problems is that data on the web often runs naked. This is due to two reasons – 1)the HTTPS protocol can be   more difficult and costly to implement and  2)there is a notable performance hit to be taken in most situations. Network World is reporting work done at Stanford University

Ye Keep an Open Eye editor just positively relishes what the Web allows – quick confirmation of facts and dips into expert knowledge through Google, Wikipedia, NewScientist, theEconomist, and just browsing the books at Barns and Noble or Amazon websites. But there is a growing word of caution about the effectiveness of the Web that

Keep an Open Eye could not find the official announcement, but there were several hundred confirmations that Microsoft’s Kin is dead as a product. The best coverage to be found on the demise of Kin is from Engadget – What Killed the Kin. Here are some of the salient points: It seems that after doing

The previous  Aptana Studio 3 post is our 1000th! Keep an Open Eye would like to pat itself on the back for its coverage of Web and Software Development for the past 5 years. Okay, that done, get on with the Sencha story!

Aptana Studio 3 beta is an HTML5 aware development tool. This means it has Intellisense with hinting capabilities for a broad range of HTML5 tags and syntax. In addition Aptana supports CSS3 and is capable of parsing mixed files of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript which are now the rule with Web 2.0, HTML5, PHP, and

Keep an Open Eye  has been following the Apple versus Adobe debate with a bit of a jaundiced eye – wondering how Flash video and all its broad range of applications can run so fast on Windows yet apparently so slow on Macs [and Linux too]. Adobe claims that the latest Flash player 10.1 has

For Apple, this means the iDevice closed ecosystem continues along its  proprietary path. For Google, fast pace of Android OS revisions has to get into phones – e.g., HTC EVO is one step behind. For Microsoft, they will have to surrender Windows-only development.

If anyone had doubts that Microsoft can innovate – take a look at what is coming through the Bing group. Now many would argue that what keeps Microsoft in the game is its Windows + Office monopoly lock and its hordes of cash. But Keep-an-Open-Eye  would like to advance the idea that Microsoft is capable

I have just argued that Google is beating Microsoft because it is adopting a new Hybrid Open Model. But that is not entirely true. Google is actually using the Apache “Open” License that does not require that all code built upon its Open Source has to be returned to the community as Open Source as

Steve Jobs has done some unprecedented trash talking about Flash running on Apple hardware – raising questions about the openness, security, reliability, speed, and battery life of Flash on iPhone OS and Mac hardware and software. In this probing  and blunt interveiw with Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen, the Wall Street Journal gets down to the

Just after April Fools, Google added speed and response time delivered at a website as part of its page ranking algorithm. The full details can be found here at the Google Webmaster Central site where Google not only explains some of the rationale about using speed in the rankings but also provides a listing of

Mike Chambers, product manger for Adobe Flash, made it official today–  Adobe would stop developing for Apple’s iPhone platform. See the following commentary: PCWorld – summary of the situation and Adobe’s withdrawal from iPhone, iPad development Mike Chambers blog – Adobe Flash Product manager explains position eloquently Francis X. Cringely – commentary on decision by

Web designers will not like it but Web developers will see it as inevitable – the new emerging HTML5 standard is really the recognition that Web 2.0 development trends have taken us to DHTML-Dynamic HTML as the way to design and program Web applications.  But DHTML means designers and developers will require solid knowledge not

1)This demo of HTML5 powered Quake 2 game will be a motivator for developers to explore what can be done in HTML5 2)The Battle Royale between Adobe and Apple over the suitability of Flash on iPad/iPhone/iPod will drive more users to HTML5. And Google’s second implementation of Google Voice for iPad/iPhone/iPod using HTML5 demos how

Well Dreamweaver was launched today and there are 5 new features and 3 enhanced ones. Here is a quick summary of those new features and enhancements. I must admit, the upgrade list to my view is small. Integrated CMS support – new direct link/edit for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal CMS systems CSS inspection – new looks