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So once again, the Great Flash Fellator himself, John Dowdell has yet another post up, the latest in an unending series of "Must mindlessly bag on HTML 5 because it poses a threat to Flash." I've given up on him actually knowing fuck all about anything outside of what his boss tells him as he climbs out from under said boss's desk after swallowing another load...er...his yearly bonus. Honestly, a brain-damaged medium could pull better accuracy during a seance. However, JD does indeed stroke Flash fast and furious, so he's probably got great job security.

I put a longish comment up, but since ol' JD likes to edit or delete comments that don't give him a satisfactory stroke, I've no confidence it will ever see the light of day. (I like to bag on Nack for his occasional hissy fits, but fucking Dowdell is ten times the whining douchecrumpet Nack ever dreamed of being. Also, Nack's not a fucking coward about comments.) So I figured, what the fuck, I'll put it here too:

IIRC, Google's been de-emphasizing gears in favor of HTML 5 local storage for some time now. Gears' implementation has always been...ugly. On the Mac, it was an input manager, which are pretty much nightmares to deal with, since they can inject into about any running application.
However, your conclusions from that, namely:

"But if the story is accurate, then that translates to "We'll be dropping support for the majority of the world -- people who use Microsoft browsers or older browsers -- in order to reduce our development costs for the people who buy Apple's hardware." Sounds strange!"

is bunk. it's not just some weird Apple-controlling-google thing, but a sign that for most browser vendors, all but one really, HTML 5 is where you want to go.

It's not just Safari/Webkit, it's also Firefox. Oh, and contrary to wherever you get your information, Webkit is *not* an apple only trick. Take a look at smartphone browsers, Webkit's bloody everywhere.

In fact, there's really only one browser manufacturer that *isn't* moving to HTML 5 support at full speed, and that's Microsoft. but then again, as ActiveX becomes less and less of a need in even corporate america, who cares. If IE wants to relive the glory days of the late 90s, that's their option, but those days, and the plugin lock-in they brought, are gone, and good riddance.

I may be wrong about Google de-emphasizing Gears, at least for storage, but that's what I remember.

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So once again, the Great Flash Fellator himself, John Dowdell has yet another post up, the latest in an unending series of \"Must mindlessly bag on HTML 5 because it poses a threat to Flash.\" I've given up on him actually knowing fuck all about anything outside of what his boss tells him as he climbs out from under said boss's desk after swallowing another load...er...his yearly bonus. Honestly, a brain-damaged medium could pull better accuracy during a seance. However, JD does indeed stroke Flash fast and furious, so he's probably got great job security. \n\nI put a longish comment up, but since ol' JD likes to edit or delete comments that don't give him a satisfactory stroke, I've no confidence it will ever see the light of day. (I like to bag on Nack for his occasional hissy fits, but fucking Dowdell is ten times the whining douchecrumpet Nack ever dreamed of being. Also, Nack's not a fucking coward about comments.) So I figured, what the fuck, I'll put it here too:\n\n

IIRC, Google's been de-emphasizing gears in favor of HTML 5 local storage for some time now. Gears' implementation has always been...ugly. On the Mac, it was an input manager, which are pretty much nightmares to deal with, since they can inject into about any running application. \n\nHowever, your conclusions from that, namely:\n\n\"But if the story is accurate, then that translates to \"We'll be dropping support for the majority of the world -- people who use Microsoft browsers or older browsers -- in order to reduce our development costs for the people who buy Apple's hardware.\" Sounds strange!\"\n\nis bunk. it's not just some weird Apple-controlling-google thing, but a sign that for most browser vendors, all but one really, HTML 5 is where you want to go.\n\nIt's not just Safari/Webkit, it's also Firefox. Oh, and contrary to wherever you get your information, Webkit is *not* an apple only trick. Take a look at smartphone browsers, Webkit's bloody everywhere. \n\nIn fact, there's really only one browser manufacturer that *isn't* moving to HTML 5 support at full speed, and that's Microsoft. but then again, as ActiveX becomes less and less of a need in even corporate america, who cares. If IE wants to relive the glory days of the late 90s, that's their option, but those days, and the plugin lock-in they brought, are gone, and good riddance.

\n\nI may be wrong about Google de-emphasizing Gears, at least for storage, but that's what I remember.