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Pras Sarkar blogs about web technology, music, social networks, digital identities and other random things.

HTML5 Primer and Comprehensive List of Features

It's hard to escape the recent chatter about HTML5 all over the development blogs. But it's also hard to keep up with all the changes in HTML5. That's where @edr's amazingly concise and comprehensive list of HTML5 features comes in handy. If you've ever asked the question "What is HTML5?" or ever wanted to gain an overall understanding of HTML5 and what the changes mean for developers, this ...

Adobe Flash loophole for iPhone apps?

Hot on the tails of the recent unearthing of the despicable banning of meta platforms like Adobe Flash in the Apple App Store, it looks like there might be a loophole to getting apps through. According to the video above, in the upcoming Adobe Flash CS5, there is a way to export Flash to HTML5 canvas. If this is possible for the entirety of a Flash application, it could ...

Plea to Apple from an iPhone developer

Earlier today, John Gruber broke the news that using meta frameworks like Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone compiler and others like MonoTouch will be disallowed for apps that want to get through the App Store process: 3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed ...

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