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Off-topic / Re: Flash is dead!
« on November 19th, 2011, 06:22 PM »
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Well, it's been in the 12.00 alpha for a few weeks, now. Maybe a couple of months. They actually planned to have it in 11.50 but postponed it to 12.00 probably because it was a 'big' feature.
HW acceleration in general is a big feature.
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WebGL objects are shown on a canvas, AFAIK. You could easily get away with creating a software surface for the page itself, and have a canvas surface that's rendered through Direct3D, OpenGL or whatever. Just like OpenGL has always worked in regular Windows windows (sure..), i.e. software GDI mixed with hardware surface for OpenGL. At least that was the case back in 1999, I see no reason why this would have changed...
It's not a regular canvas element though, it has extra properties, extra methods and all kinds of extra voodoo attached.
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Off-topic / Re: Flash is dead!
« on November 19th, 2011, 05:39 PM »
Oh, they reintegrated it?

I was under the impression that WebGL actually depended on HW acceleration to actually function :/
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 19th, 2011, 05:34 PM »
I had to explain what was going on during The Wedding of River Song to them, fortunately I rewatched it on iPlayer later and then was not disturbed...
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Off-topic / Re: phpDocumentor
« on November 19th, 2011, 05:33 PM »
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Why did we choose to fork such a huge project in the first place...
From what I remember, we did discuss forking other stuff or even building from scratch, but that we both knew the SMF codebase, didn't much like the other systems, and because you didn't want to build all the really dull stuff like user auth from scratch (can't say I blame you for that, though)
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Alright, time to go watch an episode of QI. I don't know why... I just think it's time eheh.
Funny, I thought about doing the same, I rewatched half of DW season 4 last night, so maybe I could watch the only season of QI I have on DVD now...
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 19th, 2011, 05:24 PM »
I'm not really looking forward to Christmas, it's not exactly going to be a 'simply having a wonderful Christmastime' moment (and Sir Cliff can shove it up his ...) but we'll see what happens.
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Off-topic / Re: Flash is dead!
« on November 19th, 2011, 05:23 PM »
I don't think it's close enough that either Mozilla or Opera want to reintegrate it yet, anyway, but it's an interesting notion that the video memory isn't protected properly.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 19th, 2011, 05:21 PM »
We'll just have to wait and see, won't we?

I'll be up at parents-in-law so will no doubt be fighting off the noise of everyone else chattering :(
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Off-topic / Re: Flash is dead!
« on November 19th, 2011, 05:05 PM »
Right now, codecs are the issue, as far as the video/audio issues that Nao mentioned are concerned.

But 3D programming going forward will be a big thing, especially if browsers are reticent about implementing WebGL, which they are for valid security reasons.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 19th, 2011, 04:54 PM »
I get that same feeling, oddly enough :/

Though I didn't watch Children In Need itself, so I'll have to go look up what happened later.
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Off-topic / Re: phpDocumentor
« on November 19th, 2011, 04:54 PM »
Yeah, I'm not so hot on that myself either :/
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Off-topic / Re: Flash is dead!
« on November 19th, 2011, 04:53 PM »
It's only because Flash has better support for codecs than the other browsers do, and then it's mostly political rather than practical as to why different browsers support what they do.
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Off-topic / Re: Flash is dead!
« on November 19th, 2011, 03:47 PM »
Flash on mobile was a bad idea, most of the Flash apps don't respond well (if at all) to touch events, not even mimicking regular mouse events, and it is a huge CPU draw.

HTML5 can be abused too, but it's actually a little harder to abuse than Flash is.
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Off-topic / Re: phpDocumentor
« on November 19th, 2011, 11:46 AM »
Wedge is partly documented, the rest of my own stuff, not so much - and with my own stuff it's because I don't use an IDE.
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Off-topic / Re: Flash is dead!
« on November 19th, 2011, 11:45 AM »
It's also badly implemented, meaning that despite supposedly operating as a form of virtual machine, it frequently bleeds memory, eats CPU time, and is still surprisingly sieve-like for security.
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Off-topic / Re: phpDocumentor
« on November 19th, 2011, 01:37 AM »
I don't use a fully fledged IDE, so the question is kind of moot for me.