Comments on: Ich bin ein Berliner http://aralbalkan.com/731 Passionate geekisms. Tue, 22 May 2012 18:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luke Bayes http://aralbalkan.com/731/comment-page-1#comment-134450 Luke Bayes Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:57:12 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/731#comment-134450 I always find it amusing when people choose HTML/JavaScript based purely on open source ideology. Aren't they aware that their application is executed by more than 85% of their audience in a proprietary, closed source and often standards-non-compliant runtime called Internet Explorer? This is a runtime environment that has attempted over and over again to implement the 'adopt and extend' philosophy of it's creator. I'm not saying that HTML and JavaScript aren't appropriate technologies, in fact I believe a vast majority of SWF content out there (including much of my own) should have been implemented as HTML. I'm just saying that given the facts, the runtime license arrangement shouldn't be abused as a reason to choose HTML over SWF. I always find it amusing when people choose HTML/JavaScript based purely on open source ideology. Aren’t they aware that their application is executed by more than 85% of their audience in a proprietary, closed source and often standards-non-compliant runtime called Internet Explorer?

This is a runtime environment that has attempted over and over again to implement the ‘adopt and extend’ philosophy of it’s creator.

I’m not saying that HTML and JavaScript aren’t appropriate technologies, in fact I believe a vast majority of SWF content out there (including much of my own) should have been implemented as HTML. I’m just saying that given the facts, the runtime license arrangement shouldn’t be abused as a reason to choose HTML over SWF.

]]> By: aral http://aralbalkan.com/731/comment-page-1#comment-4166 aral Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:30:24 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/731#comment-4166 Yep, there seems to be only one that is getting through the spam filters. Yep, there seems to be only one that is getting through the spam filters.

]]> By: Tink http://aralbalkan.com/731/comment-page-1#comment-4137 Tink Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:26:16 +0000 http://aralbalkan.com/731#comment-4137 "could the asshole who is posting spam comments on my blog please stop" you've only got one of em??? ;) “could the asshole who is posting spam comments on my blog please stop”

you’ve only got one of em??? ;)

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