Re:Adobe: HTML5 Will Throw the Web 'Back to the Dark Ages of...
by mechanical_fish on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @05:06PM
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Will it be at some point? Of course.
You don't understand. Yesterday, the fact that Firefox didn't support the video was "something that will be fixed one day, who knows when, maybe before 2020". Today, it is a big bug which needs to be addressed ASAP.
People don't compare managing software projects to herding cats just to be cute. Getting everyone to pull in the same direction really is 90% of the job. You need to start a stampede.
(The classic way to get programmers stampeding toward an actual product? Threaten to ship the product. Then, carry out that threat.)
The position of the players has not changed. But the second derivative has changed, and the first derivative will follow...
You don't understand. Yesterday, the fact that Firefox didn't support the video was "something that will be fixed one day, who knows when, maybe before 2020". Today, it is a big bug which needs to be addressed ASAP.
People don't compare managing software projects to herding cats just to be cute. Getting everyone to pull in the same direction really is 90% of the job. You need to start a stampede.
(The classic way to get programmers stampeding toward an actual product? Threaten to ship the product. Then, carry out that threat.)
The position of the players has not changed. But the second derivative has changed, and the first derivative will follow...