Senchas HTML5 Developer Scorecard for the
Motorola Xoom

post from Daring Fireball on 07 March 2011 11:04:15 PM. © Daring Fireball

Aditya Bansod:

Like we did with the Samsung Galaxy Tab we?re going to put theXoom through the wringer, focusing on the browser to see how itperforms and behaves for the mobile HTML5 developer. The shortanswer? The Xoom browser is not ready for prime-time — even for?HTML4? — and it urgently needs a patch update if Motorolawants the product to succeed.

Performance looks great, and it seems very capable at browsing typical websites. What Sencha is looking at are HTML5 and CSS 3 features, and treating the tablet as a mobile web app target. Sounds rushed to market, too:

We found consistent and reproducible issues in CSS3 Animations andCSS3 Transitions among other things. We had issues where thebrowser either hung or crashed. Regular scrolling was slow orbelow full framerate. We had issues where media playback failed orperformed incorrectly. At times it felt like we were using apreproduction device, but we bought our test device from a VerizonWireless store.

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http://www.sencha.com/blog/motorola-xoom-the-html5-developer-scorecard/

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Greed Is Good in NFL Labor Talks

post from Daring Fireball on 07 March 2011 08:04:34 PM. © Daring Fireball

Great piece by Bill Simmons on the NFL labor dispute.

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Hero Doing Well

post from Daring Fireball on 07 March 2011 06:04:59 PM. © Daring Fireball

I love it when Brent Simmons is blogging regularly — seriously, page back and read the last few weeks — but I don’t recall ever tearing up while reading Inessential before.

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http://inessential.com/2011/03/07/hero_doing_well

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Dive Into HTML5: History API

post from Daring Fireball on 07 March 2011 04:04:28 PM. © Daring Fireball

Speaking of Mark Pilgrim, he’s added a new chapter on the History API to his Dive Into HTML5 magnum opus. The History API allows the sort of clever location bar diddling I praised when I linked to Google’s “20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web” back in November.

Hard to believe I had to go all the way to New Zealand to meet Mark in person.

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http://diveintohtml5.org/history.html

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Open Source Ampersands

post from Daring Fireball on 07 March 2011 03:04:45 PM. © Daring Fireball

Typographical web font obsessiveness from Mark Pilgrim, inspired by Dan Cederholm’s 2008 “Use the Best Ampersand Available”.

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http://opensourceampersands.com/

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Mac 911: Mail merge and Office 2011

post from Mac 911 on 07 March 2011 02:10:00 PM. © Mac 911

Mac 911: Mail merge and Office 2011 How to create mail merge documents with Office 2011.

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Live Graffiti from Artist Queen Andrea at WebINK
SXSW Party

post from Manage This on 07 March 2011 02:05:08 PM. © Manage This

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Lukas Mathis on Multitasking

Lukas Mathis:

However, the argument that multitasking on computers is bad because humans can?t multitask is flawed. It uses the word “multitasking” in two different ways, but implies that the two kinds of multitasking are somehow the same thing. They?re not: a task (or an app) on a computer, and a task performed by a human don?t map to each other one-to-one. In fact, a single task performed by a human can easily make use of several applications running concurrently on a computer.

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http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2011/03/04/multitasking/

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Preview Adobe Illustrator and InDesign Docs on
Your iPhone and iPad

California based Code Line today introduces SneakPeek 1.0, their new iPhone/iPad application that lets users preview Adobe Illustrator and InDesign documents on their mobile devices. Mobile users can view art files away from the office, on the road, or while meeting with clients. It provides info about the document itself, such as fonts used, linked images and defined color swatches. Users can open documents from just about any program that receives files, such as Mail, Dropbox and Safari.

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http://prmac.com/release-id-22645.htm

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Mac OS X lion on PC, VMWARE and Hackintosh

Apple released Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow leopard on 28th of August, we published a guide to install Snow Leopard on PC on 26th of August. Yes you heard it right, we posted a guide to hack Snow leopard two days ahead of scheduled release. Here is the[...]

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