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I would say that the main points are performance, access to hardware apis, and - the most ignored one - ease of install.

There is no familiar way for users to install a web app (unless they are a bit tech savvy). My uncle adds favorites to its home screen to go to web pages, he knows that, and its impossible for him to think that a website is a website and if you add it to the home screen "turns out" to be like an application.

If a clearer interface was provided in the mobile phones, something like identifying webapps with a meta tag, or something, so that the phone could know and offer the user to install the app, the barrier for mobile webapps adoption could be lowered a lot.

Same thing happened to me while coding with Sencha touch, and I thought it should be something with the library performance (ExtJS).

After measuring everything correctly, and watching at the demo applications (which run fine on the phone) I saw that besides javascript work the difference where the box-shadows... Man that was a huge performance hit, removing them made the application actually usable, not like before.

I think as the author, i have been looking for a long time for a magazine/bookmarks like page to use as home/newtab page and i can never settle because there is no great answer.

Anyway, I dont think his proposal is the solution, but its probably the way to go.

If anyone knows alternatives would be great to try them out

For that I press [Space], it changes to the next feed (or folder). If the article is open (and too long) just press [Enter] and then [Space] will have that effect.

When the next one is a folder (i dont usually read by folders) you can use Shift+N (next feed) and Shift+O (Open feed).

Now that I think about it, shortcuts in Reader and Gmail are extremely useful.

Wow thats a beautiful font, thanks

Edit: 190.380 USD or 140 EUR, Really? How can a font be that expensive?... I could pay 10 to 20 euro but man, the price of this font is almost half of my rent...

Edit 2: Just discovered Inconsolata, also beautiful, and free http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

He is using font face embedding of the 'Droid Serif'. Probably some issue with the typography conversion or with windows rendering the fonts badly (i get the weird t also in windows 7).

This is what is missing in the article, thank you

I would prefer the web to be better classified and less "guessing". For my queries google has been guessing wrong most of the time and putting results of things i didnt search for in the top results page.

With the bangs and the zero-click duck aproaches what I think is a really good solution, for 'fabric' you get : http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fabric Which has in the zero click info all the meanings (including the python library), and if you would want python related results just do: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+fabric And it works beautifully...

I guess is a matter of how you are used to search

For people not aware of that site that want to see the content, just scroll up to the top in the list of what looks like comments.

After 4 visits, and clicking in some places i finally got it... I must be dumb or something.

Hey you have something really attractive here, after lunch im gonna try it, and if it convinces me, i'd be very sorry for workflowy but i'd leave them.

More comments later :)

Lol good one haha )

I just found it and really amazed me. Its the best site on this topic I have seen in a long time. Makes interfacelift.com look useless.

Childish?

Suddently reminded me to the web page that criticizes Mac apps from the store

What I get from here:

They have a codec that performs like this other one, but open for everybody to use without paying royalties. They have an agreement with most browsers to support this codec. None of the other browsers want to pay royalties for these codecs.

Well... the plan is clear

I never mentioned PS in my response, for me they are different and both of them are necessary.

In fact, from a year now, I always use Gimp as my image editing program after 4 years of PS, and I hope it doesnt die because it would leave me without choices...

This said, we cannot ignore the flaws on the UI, not comparing them to photoshop, but on their own. User life could be eased a lot fixing lots of little quirks the UI has.

Saying Gimp is pretty easy to use doesnt mean its UI could be improved a lot

I agree with you, I'm talking about more specific but anoying things, like for example:

When using the Move tool, Instead of moving the selected layer by default, the option checked is "pick a layer automatically" which never does the job.

Text editing its a pain compared to photoshop.

Lots of filters dont have a real-time preview, which make applying them a futile exercise of guessing

Layers have bounds that doesnt correspond with the content of the layer (maybe somebody finds this useful, I hate it)

The plugins for Layer effects are all a mess and its easier to do it by hand

Its impossible to select a group of layers, and I dont mean to apply some filter or edit them, I mean to organize the layers. Move up a group, etc. There is no way to create folders of layers... There is no way to hide/show a group of layers...

All this kind of quirks make the program anoying to use for big projects, and I hate it because its completely capable of getting the same results (at my level) than PS, it just takes a lot of time because the UI...

I expected this to be a rant or flame, but in fact he has described wonderfully what needs to be said.

Besides from all this pro features that GIMP lacks, in my opinion its biggest flaw its the UI. Its poor and raw, and makes sense if you are a programmer... Mainly this is what keeps it far from the regular users I know.

Hope It doesnt die, its a very good open source multiplatform editing tool...

I've learnt a lot from this, but still digesting some parts of it. Thanks a lot, I missed it the other time

Amen, If I could I would upvote all day..

Hearing my uncle say 'This is less than a coffee, why not?' or 'For this price (10$), I get more fun and entertainment than going to the cinema' has no price.

Thanks Apple

Anybody has tried this in a real production evironment? Does it play well with jQuery and plugins?

I'll test it at work on monday and get back with the results, this looks promising

Just to tell, the youtube video its said to be supressed by the user :P

This gives a fresh perspective on the matter. Never thought about evaluating questions this way. Ill give it a try !

This is true, but somebody will do a program to automatize and all this non tech-savvy will install it and use it. It always happens the same...

Im eager to try this out, I hope they fixed the cache system as before the only way to get a fast website was installing and configuring properly the boost module (drupal had a lot of database load, and shared hostings cut mysql connections at a limit that drupal exceded easily).

Ill give it a try!

Thats right, I told my boss this is shit, and he answered me that its the way it is and cannot be changed per security reasons. He is anoyed too.

What he told me is that the system is designed for the normal users, so is as restricted as possible so that they cannot break it.

Since more and more developers have been joining the company this is becoming a really anoying issue, but nobody of the people who have enough power and could force a change cares about this stuff.

Personally, with my own custom system I would be very much productive, altough vim already boosted my productivity even being on windows (xp) ...

Because it's an open project that symbolizes the freedom of the Internet, besides from being a wonderful browser driven by passionate people from the company and the community.

Also, it's a matter of respect. The fight for an open web and liberation from microsoft tirany has made possible to have this huge network of knowledge that is changing the society from its basis, allowing truly free exchange of information and culture and an universal way of communicating with whoever you want.

I know chrome is better in many aspects, but represents the desires of a company that only wants to be richer. The open web google promotes it's just part of their expansion plan, and I need to remind me this each time I use their wonderful browser.

Sorry for extending but this topic always touches feelings

Enterprise world...

In my job even the developer computers are really closed down, its really anoying

(Thanks vim for the not-administrative rights exe also :D)

This makes me really happy, I was really afraid that Chrome would cannibalize usage from Firefox users, and even it does at a certain point, its really small compared to the users it takes from IE. ^_^

Thankfully is possible to install Google chrome without administrative rights and it takes all the settings from the IE for the proxies and that stuff.

Bless google for that...

From my point of view:

* Horrible usability and bad user interfaces. * Even worse design of the applications. * Integration with existing systems make the apps so huge that lots of bugs appear.

Oh and super poor management is also a big one