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Most web developers I have come across do not like IE. Whether it is IE 7 or even IE 8, it really doesn’t matter. The reputation Microsoft gained from IE 6 is simply too hard for all developers to forget. And considering that the other browsers around can do everything IE does and that too significantly faster, there isn’t much good to talk about IE anyway.
Good news for all Ubuntu-philes. Ubuntu 10.04 a.k.a. Lucid Lynx finally arrives. For those of you who are not aware, this new version also has a LTS (Long Term Support) edition, which means you get longer support. The new OS is reported to be noticeably quicker than its predecessors. It also has a faster boot-time especially if your netbook is having a SSD.
The world’s largest social networking website Facebook.com has started switching its videos from Flash to HTML 5. Videos that are native to the website were all originally based on Flash. Now that the videos are getting converted to a more universal/standard format (HTML 5), they will directly run on the iPad/iPhone without any addition app. Good for Apple? Yes. Bad for Adobe? Hell, yes.
Android is doing great, really really great. And now with the addition of Fennec (basically Firefox for mobile) things get even better. Fennec was originally released for Maemo5 on Nokia N900 first but it’s now available for Android. Although Fennec for Android is not a production version, and the developers clearly emphasize that it is rather a “pre-alpha” edition, the app by itself is fairly usable.
Twitter is growing fast, very fast. Before 2006 it didn’t even exist. Today, the world’s no. 1 micro-blogging network has over 105 million users. On an average more than 300,000 users join the website everyday. The number of unique visitors exceed 180 million a month, while the total number of search queries entered exceed 600 million a day! The current Alexa rank of Twitter is 12.
Palm made life a lot easier for mobile phone developers. The company recently launched something called Project Ares, that allows development for webOS entirely from a web browser. No hassles like installing/setting up SDKs/environment or any other thing similar. If you have an idea, just start implementing it by going to Ares from your browser.
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