I bought Pixelmator when it was released. It had a lot of issues in the early days and IIRC their interaction with the community was so poor that people repeatedly questioned whether it had been abandoned.
Fast forward to now and they're regularly putting out solid updates with good communication via the blog. I recommend the application.
That little menu bar thing hanging out in the middle of my text as I scroll down is really annoying. I lose too much real estate to menu bars / title bars / tabs already. Don't add a floating menu bar 20 pixels below that.
Yeah I've really NEVER seen this kind of floating toolbar actually be useful. The number of times I'm annoyed by the floating bar greatly outweigh the number of times I'm annoyed by having to scroll back up to the top...
I still think the underlying limit, though, is the lack of a federated identity management system. Certainly oAuth is a huge step in the right direction, and avoids many of the problems of OpenID. But fundamentally, desktop applications are "single sign on".
Imagine if you had to log in again to open office productivity software, then log in again to open a web browser, then log in a third time to launch your music player, and once more to balance your checkbook.
Clearly SOME people are willing to do some degree of multiple sign-on (Logging in to gmail, then Pandora, and again to open Mint, for instance.) But until these context transitions are much smoother, there will continue to be blocks in adoption even if everything else you address is fixed.
thank you :). I feel like Apple may release some HTML5 tools with xcode at WWDC after re-reading steve's letter. It might end up filling some of the gaps.
Identity is a huge problem. Not only for authentication, but for de-authentication as well. What if you fire someone and want to delete all their accounts you have for them on your SaaS apps? You have to deactivate each account manually: (basecamp, salesforce, wufoo, dropbox, and probably 5 others).
thank you, that was very kind of you. I fixed and updated it. Stupid me thought that would have been a fix, but when trying it in firebug, i did it to the ul property for quicklinks.
I can't actually scroll through the page. Maybe it's a problem on my end, but using the mousewheel just results in the page jerking up and down a little bit, and hitting the down arrow throws me into the comments.
How great would it be if I could "Save As> HTML5" from adobe's products? Bummer authorinng for the iPhone will no longer be an option, but why build native apps when you will be able to do most of it on the web?
Adobe could buy PhoneGap and integrate their developer tools in the way that you can create HTML5 apps and "package" them to run as native ones on any smartphone (iPhone OS, Andorid, WebOS etc.).
Wow just checked out phonegap http://www.phonegap.com/ looks pretty cool. Apps/Frameworks like this will help mobile web apps explode. Also, an easy solution to port existing web apps and make them optimized for mobile.
Does this page do some funky interpretation of the arrow keys? As soon as I press Cursor Down to advance, the page scrolls down all the way in an uncontrollable, completely non-standard manner, and not what I expect. It makes the site unusable.
I've been trying to find stats on how much adobe makes off the flash media server product. Not sure on the long term viability of FMS anyway due to the adoption of HTML5 video.
Yeah, if it's not in their quarterly reports, it's probably secret. I know youtube uses a "pseudostreaming" trick, so they don't have to pay for FMS, and now there is also the Wowza alternative, which is cheaper.
I honestly think that adobe flash video will be pervasive much longer than you might think. Do you know how to send a live video stream in HTML5, in case you wanted to make the HTML5 analog of chatroulette? Neither does anyone else.
You won't see justin.tv switching from flash any time soon.
It will take a while for it to completely go away. It may never fully go away.
Livestreaming is certainly one of those use cases that will be using flash for a while. It's beyond my area of expertise, but I think someone mentioned websockets in HTML5 might make it doable. That right there is a really big potential idea. Would love to see it built.
Your entry adds nothing new, however given that you bring it up, I have to remark on how shocking it is that seemingly intelligent people can rationalize such intense hypocrisy.
If Flash is a no go because of HTML5, why does the iPhone app market exist?
I think Apple's behavior towards Adobe (and by extension the end-users) has been pretty piss poor. Jobs' pretend "rationalizations" are also rather poor.
However, I agree with this blog post. Flash is going the way of the past, HTML5 is the wave of the future. Adobe doesn't make money on flash players but does on content creation applications. It makes sense (and if Adobe's demonstration of targeting HTML5 for output is a demonstration it does to them also) to build HTML5 content creation tools. Adobe is the best at making content creation tools, they should do this.
This is more about a debate for the web, rather than the iPhone app market. Adobe makes tools that empower web developers. To really empower the next generation of web apps, they should focus on HTML5 rather than flash. As far as the iPhone goes: Things like appcelerator have been ok'd by apple. If Adobe bought a company like them and used that as an easier way to produce iPhone apps through CS6(?) it would be fine.
The no-Flash in the browser on the iPhone/iPad/whatever is entirely and absolutely Apple's choice, and no one can make that choice for them. They can argue benefits/detriments, but no one can make Apple pollute their platform against their will.
That is debate number 1.
The debate now has NOTHING to do with the web (and it's honestly quite ludicrous to claim that it does), but instead is Apple deciding to rewrite the rules of the app market just to exclude certain manners of developing software.
Using the web to blanket that argument as well is, quite honestly, offensive propaganda.
If Steve said "We're implementing new quality rules to ascertain the quality of apps by a panel of testers, and we're demanding that all apps use features {X} {Y} and {Z}", that would be one thing. That isn't what they did. Instead they said "Due to the fact that a lot of very gullible, very silly people will accept out ridiculously inaccurate correlation, we're blanket eliminating a broad realm of technology choices just to thwart a competitor".
Unless you work for Apple you should not be embracing that. It is a grievous offense to intelligence.
