Comments on: Google Gears For Safari And Other Browser AddonsRobert Accettura's Personal Blog on Web Development and TechBy: Robert- August 28, 2008 enefekt: Yes, Flash on mobile is the common denominator. That&8217;s why AAC or OGG Vorbis hasn&8217;t taken off. It can&8217;t be played anywhere. MP3 on the other hand has excellent support. MP3 is really an inferior technology in many ways, but it&8217;s the standard because it works on anything. Existing free tools to develop Flash apps are extremely limited. Adobe is opening up the specs, but it will take a long time before anyone gets even close to a complete implementation. They..http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/08/26/google-gears-for-safari-and-other-browser-addo... By: enefekt- August 28, 2008 &8220;Flash has many issues, its not available on all mobile devices&8221; If that&8217;s a litmus test, then we&8217;re all constrained to the lowest common denominator. &8220;and its not free to develop on. &8221; Sure it is. The tools I use to develop apps for the Flash Player are free. And the Flex SDK is open source as well. &8220;Linux support is also still lacking as is pretty obvious if you know anyone who uses Linux full time.&8221; Linux support is there, and improving all the time.http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/08/26/google-gears-for-safari-and-other-browser-addo... By: Antonio- August 28, 2008 For a short while I thought I had all my web compatibility issues handled with Flash, Quicktime and Flip4Mac, but, more often now, I see standards thrown out. Some content providers insist on offering up weird encoded video and wrapping then inside a WMV. On a Mac, this is not good news. F4M does a stellar job, but it&8217;s impossible for them to keep up with all the different codecs. &8230;.and, Quicktime doesn&8217;t seem to be catching on too much, outside the Mac realm. Even though...http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/08/26/google-gears-for-safari-and-other-browser-addo... By: Robert- August 28, 2008 enefekt: Flash has many issues, it&8217;s not available on all mobile devices and it&8217;s not free to develop on. The usability factor isn&8217;t bad. Linux support is also still lacking as is pretty obvious if you know anyone who uses Linux full time.http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/08/26/google-gears-for-safari-and-other-browser-addo... By: enefekt- August 27, 2008 &8220;The downside to this is that users need to download multiple components for a good web experience.&8221; Actually the Flash Player covers all these areas very nicely in one nice and tidy package. Even offline via a streamlined integration with AIR, where it automagically installs the AIR runtime if not installed, and the user&8217;s desired application. The only thing I see left out is worker pools I think.http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/08/26/google-gears-for-safari-and-other-browser-addo... By: Robert- August 27, 2008 Ahem: That&8217;s the vast majority of the market share right now, and the list of supported browsers for most large sites. Yes there are other browsers out there (heck I still see Netscape 3 routinely on this blog), but not enough to warrant the effort supporting. That&8217;s just a fact of life. If it works&8230; great.http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/08/26/google-gears-for-safari-and-other-browser-addo... By: Ahem- August 27, 2008 With Google creating Gears for all browsers Only if by all browsers you really mean IE, Firefox, and Safariand if you seriously think those are the only web browsers out there, you have a major case of myopia.http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/08/26/google-gears-for-safari-and-other-browser-addo... By: eatme- August 27, 2008 yo! <winge> Insert Linux has web browsers but no Quicktime or Sillverlight speel here <winge> Sorry but for consistency i cant go around telling everyone to support our 5%-10% firefox users only to leave the 3%-7% linux users hanginghttp://robert.accettura.com/blog/2008/08/26/google-gears-for-safari-and-other-browser-addo... |