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Give HTML5 a big hug

The release of Internet Explorer 9 comes with a wave of relief and panic. Panic because in some development cases, this means we now have four (yes, four) versions of one browser to test website in which I’m not particularly looking forward to doing. The silver lining here is the better implementation of emerging standards [...]

Another 2011 prediction blog post

This is the time of year that everyone and their dog seems to take out the crystal ball out and make sweeping predictions for 2011. Jumping on the bandwagon of making sweeping predictions sounds like a bit of fun, if not taken too seriously so here’s my attempt to list some dead certs that I [...]

Another nail in the coffin for Flash?

Adobe’s Flash system has been taking a real hammering recently with Apple, Google and Wikipedia effectively scrapping explicit support for the ageing video standard. Steve Jobs was recently moved to publish some notes on the subject to try and help the common man understand why Flash is bad and why open standards such as HTML5 [...]