A Pile of Web Links

JSLint and Firebug

I thought it would be easy to find a Blog post from some popular dude that gets 100s of comments per post about why Douglas Crockford’s JSLint and Joe Hewitt’s Firebug are not integrated somehow… I’m sure something will come up.

“Catching up with Silverlight 2”

Most of the MIX 08 videos from Microsoft are listed and categorized in “Catching up with Silverlight 2.” Lists like these are actually more convenient than the crufty dog-food Silverlight interface developed by Microsoft. Like Adobe with tv.adobe.com, the Microsoft Silverlight designs still make islands isolated from the benefits of a simple HTML page. Yes, Microsoft has spent billions on “backwards compatibility” but the official Yahoo! design principles of “graceful degradation and progressive enhancement” are lost on these kids, imposing their green-field dreams on real people maintaining real “legacy” bases.

“Adobe to Port AIR to Linux”

On Slashdot.org: “Adobe To Port AIR To Linux.” Adobe follows with “Adobe Labs—Adobe Flex Builder Linux Public Alpha.” But the real mover and shaker will be a Flex/AIR “killer app”—so something like Photoshop Express or “New AIR-powered Adobe kuler desktop” will make real change.

the sixtyone beta

Another new music discovery site… I still haven’t gone through the dream machine rituals at GarageBand.com yet…

Motion Picture Visualization Guilt Trips

Since I am supposed to know “everything,” I’m supposed to know why I saved links for topics like H.264.

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