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A Very Very Brief History of Flash and the Open Web

Much has been made about HTML5 on the web, particularly concerning what it will do to the future of plug-in-based technologies like Flash. It's been difficult to sort out the truth from the frustration, as people on both sides polarize the issue by calling for the downfall of one technology or another. All of that is pretty standard in these types of transitions I guess, but for the moment I'd like to put all of that aside and just look at this from the perspective of history. You can learn a lot about the future of the web by looking at its past, and I think a lot of the opinions I’ve read about the Flash vs. HTML5 debate either fail to acknowledge this or assume everyone knows it. I want to present a very, very brief history of the relationship between Flash and what has been referred to as "the open web" — a jumble of free web-browsing software and standards-based (sometimes) languages to write content for them that has most recently evolved to include HTML5.

Four short links: 21 April 2010

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Using CSS Media Queries to Style Your iPhone and iPad HTML

In my previous post, I showed how you can use JavaScript to detect orientation and style your iPhone and iPad pages. As reader Jason Grigsby kindly pointed out, you can also do this purely with CSS Media Queries! I've reworked the file I made for that example to use CSS Media Queries to do just that. I split the iPad style into two files: ipad-portrait.css, showing the upcoming and new content under the news content; and ipad-landscape.css, showing the upcoming and new content to the right of the news content. The behavior of the web page is the same in the previous example, but doesn't require any JavaScript to make it all work.

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