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May 08, 2007
Evolutionary pace
Evolutionary pace: Andy Budd gets lots of comments in this essay about faster, more agile, standards processes. He's particularly concerned about the CSS3 spec, started in 1999. The Microsoft Silverlight announcement seemed to spark this conversation -- some apprehension there -- but there's a new perspective on Flash in here as well. Key quotes: "We currently live in a world of live texture mapping and rag doll physics. And yet as web developers, we don't even have the ability to create rounded corner boxes programmatically... While the W3C and WHAT WG have been sat around debating the issue, Flash has gone an implemented these features." I've got no single takeaway, but it's a good read, and most of the novel comments are clustered towards the top.
Posted by JohnDowdell at May 8, 2007 11:03 PM
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