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Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by Marazan »

exodust wrote: post #313
lostPixels wrote: post #239

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As a former Flash Developer, I will never put my time and money into learning Adobe software again.

Don't blame Adobe if your Flash banners were crap. "Adobe software" is broad, covering a lot of ground. You're turning your back on the whole lot? Sounds irrational. Maybe check out this new Google tool, and see how you feel after about 10 minutes.

He isn't refusing to put time into learning Adobe tech because they produced bad code, he's refusing to put time in because Adobe knifed the Flex development community in the back. Then in the front. Then stabbed them in the back again.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by droidist2 »

tga wrote: post #381
indubitably wrote: post #346

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You guys are so far out of touch with the reality of most people.

Nothing of the sort, all in all, Flex is indeed a great platform. The sad reality is that it only runs on a crappy, obsoleted runtime (Flash) so it is not useful for most web development, but otherwise everything he says is true. For a web app (RIA) I would pick Flex or Silverlight any day over the whole HTML mess if they would only run properly in all browsers, desktop and mobile.

With Adobe AIR you can deploy to iOS and Android, so that covers most of the mobile market. I'd certainly pick that over the whole HTML mess.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by pandalicious »

rfnslyr wrote: post #147
abalone wrote: post #118

Ok, the war is on. Does anyone know of a good HTML5 ad blocker? Flash was awesome . It made it really easy to block animated ads. My browsing experience had been wonderful ever since I installed a Flash blocker a few years ago. Also did wonders for my battery life. Please, please help my browsing experience remain wonderful. Thanks.

I choose to disable adblock on all sites, and only block ads on websites I feel are not legit or are going overboard with the ads.

This is exactly what I do as well and it drives me nuts that it's not the default normal way that adblockers work.

Do you also use a "@@*$document,domain=~foo.com|~bar.com" filter in order to accomplish it?

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by V-2 »

bromagosa wrote: post #392
V-2 wrote: post #388

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Clearly Apple subscribes to this terminology, and I don't think it has much of an interest in putting forward the impression that Windows is the only option on PCs and concealing the existence of Linux.

I think it does. From the very beginning they wanted to sell computers to people by making them think they work like home appliances. If people knew computers are actually universal machines, then they wouldn't be as willing to pay more for the same components with a different brand printed on the machine's case, or a different software running in them. Besides, that gives them a single competitor to fight against.

Is it really easier to face one big nearly monopolist opponent instead of two who're fighting against eachother? Also one important obstacle for the adoption of Apple products was the common notion that there's no plausible alternatives to buying a PC. That's why they invested heavily in sending the message of pluralism - "think differently" etc.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by Nekorosu »

laureny wrote: post #318
alanh wrote: post #260

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“Drastically?” The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X. And, I guess, most of the marketers, too.

> “Drastically?” The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X. I'm guessing most (all?) the developers you know work in the US? Mac OS is close to nonexistent in that area in the rest of the world. Trying to sell an app competing against a free product from Google is already challenging enough, you should seriously consider the original advice and extend your tool to work on Windows as well.

Moscow, Russia – Macs everywhere. Odessa, Ukraine – a lot of Macs and more are coming.

And this is a two year old observation.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by giantSlayer »

nityananda wrote: post #330
lostsock wrote: post #278

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Wow really? Where (in what bubble) do you live?

Well, I am from Europe and from people I know only around 15% uses Mac. I was myself using Windows/Linux for all development and Photoshop work till last 3 years, when I moved to Macbook Air.

Windows are for users and Mac are for makers. ;)

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by giantSlayer »

nityananda wrote: post #330
lostsock wrote: post #278

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Wow really? Where (in what bubble) do you live?

Well, I am from Europe and from people I know only around 15% uses Mac. I was myself using Windows/Linux for all development and Photoshop work till last 3 years, when I moved to Macbook Air.

Windows are for users and Mac are for makers. ;)

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by outside1234 »

zalew wrote: post #54
hiyou102 wrote: post #47

Another product without linux support from Google. This is getting frustrating.

Yeh, it sucks. But don't worry, when enough people get hooked on it, they will move it online, before integrating it into google+.

Or end of life it. One of the two. Good luck!

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by diminoten »

ris wrote: post #393
diminoten wrote: post #263

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Visiting a site is giving that site permission to run whatever it wants in your browser/on your computer. The only winning move is to not visit a site.

"Visiting a site is giving that site permission to run whatever it wants in your browser/on your computer." No, it really isn't.

Way to add to the discussion.
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