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Quote of the day…

“On completion of the video (i.e. at the end) the initial default state will re-occur.”
I had a 115 page document dropped on my desk, I’ve not read a lot of technical documents in my time, in fact this is probably my first “proper” one. From what I can tell they’re a barrel of laughs for […]

A key quote from the article,
“A developer who said he had limited experience with Flash also sided with Silverlight. “I just think the integration with .Net is going to be big. I’m a .Net developer. It allows me to jump in [to] Silverlight a lot easier,”
But, but, but, but…
Of course he’d say that, he’s a […]

There’s a very interesting write-up on Windows media vs. Flash Video, the nice thing is it’s objective. Just try and ignore the rather lazy design.
I mean I can scream and shout with the best of them about how rubbish every other format is, but my opinion is only partly based on exprience.

But I just can’t let this one go by without commenting.
FJAX is like AJAX only instead of using XMLHttpRequest, which is limited to a single parse of date at a time, you embed a 4k swf to handle the data parsing. Admitedly I can understand why you would want to do this, only being able […]