Monday, November 14, 2011

Who knew the Weak Anthropic Principle was causing so much agita?

Mobile browsers have grown to be incredibly savvy in recent years, a far cry from the dumbed-down WAP views we previously had to deal with.

Or maybe this is just another OTLA problem.

5 comments:

Substance McGravitas said...

I don't think I've seen it put as simply as that. It makes total sense for Adobe to have just not bothered with it.

bjkeefe said...

You mean, for Adobe to just say the hell with Flash for mobile devices?

If so, agreed. Not that I'm a wizard by any stretch, but it seems like HTML5 is going to cover things.

Substance McGravitas said...

You mean, for Adobe to just say the hell with Flash for mobile devices?

Yeah. There wasn't that big a reason to spend the money.

bjkeefe said...

Almost certainly you'd know better than I, but still, I am inclined to think of their 99% lock-in on the desktop and to believe that they had to be thinking of that same prospect on other devices, too.

I don't often say this non-ironically, but on this, I will: all hail Steve Jobs. I think we dodged a bullet there.

bjkeefe said...

Here's something interesting: Google Code's new Swiffy thing -- converts SWF to HTML5.

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