One could easily remote to their other computer, even away from home and browse from there.
Until a hack for flash is done...
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DCJensen - Apr 04, 2010 1:13:48 pm PDT #13478 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Jon B. - Apr 04, 2010 1:33:42 pm PDT #13479 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Last week, there was a symposium at the NERD building in Cambridge titled "Looking at the Next Open Web Platform" where folks from the W3 Consortium and elsewhere talked about SVG, HTML 5, CSS 3, and other future standards. I couldn't make the actual talk, but the slides were made available and I read through them. Bottom line: audio, video and vector graphics are going to be a part of the W3 open standards. I don't see how Flash can survive if browsers will soon be able to support the same functionality natively. So while it's annoying now, maybe Apple is probably figuring that eventually major web sites will stop using Flash and no one will care?
NoiseDesign - Apr 04, 2010 1:35:50 pm PDT #13480 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I think it is a very calculated move that Flash is not on the iPad. Apple is making a power play. Basically betting the iPad will sell like crazy and force developers to abandon Flash if they want to work on the hit new device. My guess is that within 18 months the percentage of sites depending on Flash is going to drop significantly.
le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 1:46:13 pm PDT #13481 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I was so shocked that youtube did it. I figured that should signal something serious to the Adobe Flash people.
Jessica - Apr 04, 2010 2:54:25 pm PDT #13482 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think it is a very calculated move that Flash is not on the iPad. Apple is making a power play.
Oh, I agree completely. I just wish it didn't have to mean the consumer getting caught in the middle.
Zenkitty - Apr 04, 2010 3:03:09 pm PDT #13483 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I have to flip to another "screen" to get a damned apostrophe
?!? That's... that's obscene.
If I want to watch Hulu on the iPad I feel like I ought to be able to or whatever, man...
Yeah. Hulu is what I was thinking of. There are tv shows in there, and sometimes I want them.
One could easily remote to their other computer, even away from home and browse from there.
Would that really work? The iPad would just be showing you what your computer is doing, right?
My guess is that within 18 months the percentage of sites depending on Flash is going to drop significantly.
I wouldn't mind that at all. All too often a Flash site makes my browser freeze or crash.
I just wish it didn't have to mean the consumer getting caught in the middle.
We're not the middle. We're the battleground.
Una - Apr 04, 2010 3:48:39 pm PDT #13484 of 25501
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I have to flip to another "screen" to get a damned apostrophe
?!? That's... that's obscene.
YES! I did find out that there's a workaround...if I hold down the comma for a bit, it'll give me an apostrophe. (it's actually a nice little functionality for special characters like ü and é too.)
beekaytee - Apr 04, 2010 4:26:49 pm PDT #13485 of 25501
Compassionately intolerant
Are there any particularly good...and preferably free...converters to turn avi into dvd format?
I've ahemed a couple of things I'd love to copy onto dvd but Burn is not letting me do it.
Whatever shall I do?
le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 4:42:53 pm PDT #13486 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
you have a pc, right?
javachik - Apr 04, 2010 4:47:27 pm PDT #13487 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Any Photoshop gurus here? I have a picture (link) that has a datestamp on it, which I'd like to remove. Is that possible? I mean, I know I can crop it out, but I am wondering if it's possible to not have to crop? Help please?
(I am finally choosing photos to frame and put up in my place)