I’ve just been hired by INRIA to develop a Mozilla-based, multimedia-dedicated, web authoring tool. I’m working in a team that has been very active in the SVG and SMIL working groups and that has developed Amaya a while ago. After three months working here, I came up with two conclusions: the full SMIL spec (≠ SVG animations) is completely overkill for web b […]
Every now and then we see a production innovation that doesn’t just build on existing techniques but signals a move toward a totally different approach. So when three such examples all appear at once the direction of travel becomes startlingly clear. Get ready for cloud-based production. Here are the three clues that indicate it’s on its way. You may have se […]
http://labs.headlondon.com/2010/07/skinny-daemons/ (or on Ruby Inside)[W]e’ve been having a lot of fun writing a series of small, self-contained web apps .. When we’re building these kinds of applications, which are often meant as low-ceremony apps targeted at a very specific purpose, or as service utilities, a lot of the time we don’t want to go through the […]