With all the chatter about Apple wanting to kill Flash, can Flash survive, HTML 5 FTW, etc., I think there is one major, major problem people need to be aware of: HTML 5’s video element can never replace Flash as a video player, unless somebody sorts out the messy legal issues surrounding video codecs.
After procrastinating for several weeks, I finally got to see Avatar this weekend. Before I sent, I saw a lot of people saying things like, “It was good, but not life-changing.” That really gave me a lot of food for thought, because no one ever expects a sci-fi action blockbuster to be life-changing.
2009 was a disappointing year for Wii games. Next year, though, things are already looking up. I’m not usually a fan of getting sequels just for the sake of getting sequels, but by coincidence, the games I’m most excited about next year all have titles ending with the letter 2.
For a company with a rich history of passing off iteration as innovation, it’s pretty weird to see almost all of IE7’s design decisions being implemented — and improved upon — in almost every other browser.
When 37 Signals redesigned their signup forms, the goal was to find a way to make the page shorter, but equally effective. I think they did a great job of it. What they ended up doing reminded me a lot of what I wrote about in my post about a lossy text compressor.
