Specialist for Rich Internet Applications and UI-Design

Auf golem.de gibt es ein interessantes Interview mit Matthias Döpfner, Konzernchef des Axel-Springer Verlags, in dem das iPad als Retter der Print-Industrie gepriesen wird: "Jeder Verleger auf der Welt sollte sich einmal am Tag niedersetzen, beten und Steve Jobs dafür danken, dass er damit die Verlagsindustrie rettet" Gleichzeitig übt Döpfner Kritik am iPad, da dieses kein Flash unterstütze. Die Hoffnung ruht aber auf der Konkurrenz, die Adobe's Technologie nicht ablehnt, wie zum Beispiel HP mit seinem Tablet, genannt Slate. Döpfner äußerte aber auch Kritik am iPad und Apple. So ... read the full article

Update: After hearing about some misunderstandings regarding this post, I want to make sure, that the title "Flash - The new Java?" is of course targeted at front-ent software engineering, not backend. Although it's obvious that noone would ever try to build a web application backend using Flash, I just wanted to make sure that you understand what I am talking about :-) Flash/AIR seems to really become a serious alternative development environment if it comes up to multi-platform requirements for desktop- and mobile applications. With one codebase (in ActionScript3), it's possible to tar ... read the full article

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It's just a rumor, but it's being said that there are plans out there that Google will release future versions of Chrome with Flash bundled. If it's true, this fact would be really astonishing for me, since Google usually tries to push open-source technologies, which Flash definately isn't. Further, GWT is a direct rival of the Adobe Flex platform, so it really doesn't marke sense why Google should increase its support in Flash. Thus, I can't believe that this rumor is true, but if it is, it would make me a really happy man :-) My vision: Get Flash preinstalled on ChromeOS and Android ... read the full article

I noticed in the screencast below, that Silverlight seems to offer a great implicit way of supporting browser's forward- and back-buttons. The basic idea is to modify the current url by adding or removing tags without forcing a page refresh. Example: In the video below, a basic Twitter client is being developed using Silverlight. The main part is wrapped into a navigation component which automatically stacks sub-components, similar to the ViewStack component in Adobe Flex. The difference is now, if the displayed component changes, also the current url changes. For example, if the user sees ... read the full article