Google raises its banner in crusade away from Flash, sets deadline for ads

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Adobe Flash helped make the internet what it is today, bringing us streaming video, interactive games, and –yes- some very annoying ads. But the internet’s been doing a lot of growing up lately, and between steep processing and memory requirements, to say nothing of security vulnerability after security vulnerability, the sun’s been setting on Flash. As everyone looks to HTML5 and other more mature technologies for their Flash replacements, Google’s doing its part to help move ...

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Why doesn’t every browser do word wrapping?

Posted on by Joe Levi

Mobile devices used to be primarily portable email boxes with integrated calendar and contacts. In the early days, some of them may have included web browsers, but they were very primitive. Back then the Web was very complex, and designed for screens with resolutions of 800 by 600 and higher. To accommodate phones and PDAs a “new” web was invented, one that used a completely different protocol to address the concerns of much smaller screens, slower processors, and mobile data plans. None of which were anywhere close to what we have today. WAP & WML Continue reading »

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