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Proprietary Standards

Sylvaticus — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:08:36 +0000

Earlier, I linked to Apple’s new HTML5 resource page. What I didn’t realize at the time was that the very page that trumpets open standards and purports to demonstrate their value works “only” in Safari (customizations not implemented in the HTML5 or CSS3 standards) and “blocks” other browsers (browser sniffing). You can read Christopher Blizzard’s excellent critique here. (Hat tip Daring Fireball.)

Apple Creates Resource for Open Standards Development

Sylvaticus — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:03:08 +0000

Apple has created a new HTML5 and web standards resource page. A link is provided for developers to learn more about HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and web standards which allow them to create rich website experiences.

Services for the iPhone?

Sylvaticus — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:36:12 +0000

Chris Clark of Release Candidate One makes a brilliant suggest to implement Services (here and here) for the iPhone OS. He explains:

If you’re not familiar, the Mac’s Services menu is something it inherited from NeXTSTEP, and it’s not unlike the Unix command line’s pipe. A Service takes the current selection and sends it to another application to be worked on, which may or may not pass the result back to the original caller. Services are under-utilized on the Mac because we’re so accustomed to copy and paste, drag and drop, and the routine of saving a file to the desktop with one application so you can open it with another. But iPhone OS, lacking two out of three of these options, could foster a Services explosion.

Of note in the post is the use of the excellent iPhone prototyping tool, Briefs.