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Saturday, June 8, 2013

Two questions about the modern Internet?

Why does every browser now hate the Home button?

  - I know why Google hates the home button by why does everyone else follow suit. Too bad, Chrome on many levels is a the best browser out there but Google's business models will eventually render Chrome useless.

   - Mozilla thinks they are smarter than everyone or they are smoking alot of something during UI design sessions.

    - Apple who cares... the moment a major browser release broken basic http authentication I was done.  Apple almost had to produce the iPhone and iPad because no one in their right minds would say I want to develop a web app for Safari.

 - Microsoft - IE9/10 does not suck. But still IE has its challenges, try create ASP.NET/MVC app that shows embedded PDFs also use html dialogs watch the job of staying in focus.  Opposite behavior of everyone else.  

Why can't I find a file sharing site allows me to share a file with URL and then allow the file to be downloaded with a simple WebClient?

  - Skydrive - No.  I tried to use SkyDrive 5 years ago. No Published API at the time, constant UI changes, and file linking schemes.

  - DropBox - You think so...  until some actually uses the link.  DropBox, you're done you just don't know it yet.

  - All of the various sites hosted for nefarious but legal file sharing....
 I just can't do it...  

A thief is always a liar first...Can't trust a user agreement or mission statement for  sites used primarily dumping ground for porn and photos of ex-wives and girl friends.
     Yes includes you Tumblr and Flickr...

Maybe for my next rant, I'll discuss how blogger is now the walking dead....

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