Thursday, March 29, 2012

'BrowserQuest' Shows HTML5 Could Slay Flash

'BrowserQuest' Shows HTML5 Could Slay Flash

'BrowserQuest' Shows HTML5 Could Slay Flash

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:12 AM PDT

The Mozilla Foundation on Wednesday released BrowserQuest, a massively multiplayer online game written in HTML5, Java and other open source languages. "BrowserQuest is a showcase of how open Web technologies like HTML5, JavaScript, CSS and WebSockets can be used to create a multiplayer game that scales up to thousands of users," Christian Heilmann, principal developer evangelist at Mozilla, told TechNewsWorld. "Its main purpose is to prove that the Web is a platform for gaming as much as it is a platform for apps and documents," Heilmann continued.

Adobe Squeezes More Security Into - and More Cash Out of - Flash

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 11:45 AM PDT

In its ongoing quest to keep Flash relevant in the face of strong competition from HTML5, Adobe on Wednesday announced Flash Player 11.2, featuring a silent updates option to enhance the platform's security. Improving the security of Flash Player through silent updates is critical because more than 99 percent of malware installations succeed by targeting out-of-date software installations, and attackers have been targeting users trying to manually search for Flash Player updates with fake update sites, Adobe said.

Google Guns for Facebook With Third-Party Comment Platform

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Google is reportedly planning to launch its own third-party commenting system soon. It will apparently be tied into its Google+ social platform, its Web services and the company's Web search products. Google, according to reports, will make the platform available to third parties in much the same way Facebook offers its platform, wherein visitors to a given website log into Facebook in order to post comments to the site's articles and content. There's been speculation that Google might let visitors to websites log into its comment platform through other services.

Fork Skewers Photoshop Skin GimpShop

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 05:00 AM PDT

I thought I had found image-manipulating Nirvana with GimpShop. But the wide world of open source software and the Linux community failed me this week. My quest for a better GIMP tool to give me a Photoshop-like Windows experience turned into a fool's folly. Actually, my faith in the Linux OS is still intact. But my disappointment in not finding salvation from resorting to a return to Microsoft Windows caused me to question my decision years ago to convert to Linuxism.
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