HTML vs. Flash: Can a turf war be avoided?

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	HTML vs. Flash: Can a turf war be avoided? A difference of opinion among developers has become a high-profile debate over the future of the Web: should programmers continue using Adobe Systems' Flash or embrace newer Web technology instead? The debate has gone on for years, but last week's debut of Apple's iPad--which like the iPhone doesn't support Flash--turned up the heat. Before that, Adobe had been saying with some restraint that it's happy to bring Flash to the iPhone when Apple gives the go-ahead. But Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch took the gloves off Tuesday with a blog post that said Apple's reluctance to include Flash on its "magical device" means iPad buyers will effectively see a crippled Web... Read more  Related: Web video gets H.264 royalty reprieve Stephen Shankland CNET.com New on Webware Meet the Super Bowl's official Twitter hashtag Posted by Caroline McCarthy Forget Ashton and Oprah. This is how you know Twitter's really broken into the mainstream: The NFL has launched a page of aggregated tweets pertaining to Sunday's Super Bowl XLIV, and even designated an official hash tag (#SB44) for users to categorize their tweets as Super Bowl-related.  Read more  Apple extends iTunes Web previews to apps Posted by Josh Lowensohn Just a few months after introducing its browser-based iTunes Preview pages for music, Apple has expanded the feature to include items from the App Store. Now, when a user clicks an iTunes link for an iPhone or iPod Touch app, they're taken to a page with a similar layout to what they'd see when browsing the iTunes Store in Apple's iTunes software. But instead, it's in their browser.  Read more  New Facebook craze can violate terms of service Posted by Caroline McCarthy If you're one of Facebook's 350 million-plus members, you've probably noticed a handful of people on your friends list changing their profile photos to pictures of celebrities, cartoon characters, Muppets, and other notable figures recently. The catch is, putting up a celebrity photo on your Facebook profile may not actually be kosher.  Read more  Monster buys Yahoo's HotJobs for $225 million Posted by Tom Krazit Yahoo has shed another property deemed expendable by CEO Carol Bartz, selling HotJobs to Monster for $225 million. Part of the deal includes a provision that installs Monster as the exclusive provider of job ads on Yahoo's home page for three years in the U.S. and Canada, according to a joint press release.  Read more  East to west, 'Street Sounds' maps U.S. in audio Posted by Leslie Katz Do New York pigeons sound different from California pigeons? I'm not sure, but The Smalls Street Sounds could help me find out. The new interactive online project aims to create a sort of sonic landscape of the U.S. by overlaying local sound snippets on Google Maps.  Read more  Browser add-ons PictureFox puts a little cover flow in your Amazon Posted by Josh Lowensohn If you're a frequent user of Amazon.com and find its product image viewer a little clunky, it's worth checking out new Firefox add-on PictureFox. Once installed, it grabs full-quality versions of each product shot, along with the photos provided by other customers, and puts them in a simple, Cover Flow-style image viewer.  Read more  Greasemonkey comes to Chrome Posted by Seth Rosenblatt This week the developer of the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox announced that Chrome version 4 and later will support most of the JavaScript-coded Greasemonkey scripts without any additional tweaking necessary. This includes all available builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Chrome converts the JavaScript directly into a Chrome extension as it's being installed, and the new add-on lives as an extension in Chrome's Extension management window.  Read more  More Webware  Webware RSS feed  The Webware 100  About Webware.com
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