iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and canvas

Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by borplk on Monday September 17, 2012 @02:43AM (#4531503)

That's still non-intuitive. Just do a search about centering (or X problem in CSS) and see the thousands of threads and questions and corner cases, hacks and exceptions.

The whole thing feels like you are stretching something beyond what it was intended to be used for.

Things like element positioning should be so so simple that if you search about it, you get nothing back because no one had a problem to ask for solutions.

Although I must say I'm not mocking CSS in particular, most web technologies feel this way because they were designed many years ago for a web that was supposed to have simple 'documents' like an article, text and paragraphs and today each component of it is expected to do a lot more.

It's not getting all that much better either because each new version and improvement is building on top of the previous decisions, etc...

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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by rimantas on Monday September 17, 2012 @08:08AM (#4532135)

  > most web technologies feel this way

Most technologies you don't know feel this way. And the reason—you don't know them.

  > It's not getting all that much better either because each
  > new version and improvement is building on top of the
  > previous decisions

In this case: no.

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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by rglover on Monday September 17, 2012 @09:30AM (#4532435)

If that wasn't intuitive enough, feel free to email me and I'd be glad to teach/walk you through the many unfortunate ways to go about this: [email protected].

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