Attended the Adobe HTML5 Now and Next event at Adobe SF. Some interesting stuff coming down the pike, even if some of it is a ways off yet. Layout grids! Image filters! Application cache! Flexboxes! Someday laying out a web page won’t be such a collection of kludges. The layout grids item particularly should give enable easier page design — and high time too. Interesting too how Adobe has apparently unhitched their wagon from Flash in a very public way.
And in that bright, shining future perhaps Internet Explorer won’t suck as badly as now. Just today I put together a jQuery slideshow, which is working great in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. But just when you thought you’d taught IE to sit up and bark by slipping it the IE Shiv (the rest of the HTML5 page looks good), the dang javascript throws a wobbly, advancing a blank slide interval between every real slide image! Kind of difficult to post my entire HTML5 site upgrade with that problem on the home page… #*%*#@$ IE again!!!
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