Efter att Steve Jobs bloggan om sina tankar om Flash så begav sig Joe Hewitt ut på twitter med sina tankar. Om ni inte vet vem Joe Hewitt är så har han jobbat på Netscape, AOL, Firefox och Facebook. Det är han som ligger bakom den utmärkta Facebook-appen.

• Redirect your hatred of Flash to the W3C, whose embarrassingly slow pace forced devs to use a plugin because the standards were so weak.
• Also, I am looking at you, developers who bitch whenever a browser offers “non-standard” but innovative APIs.
• Browser makers need to go nuts with non-standard APIs and let the W3C standardize later. Waiting for the committee to innovate is suicide.
• 10 years ago we bullied Microsoft into stopping innovation on IE so the W3C could take over. How’d that work out?
• For those too young to remember, IE was innovating like crazy from 4.0 -6.0, right up until the DOJ and web standards commies intervened.
• @jeff_lamarche Oh c’mon. Aside from ActiveX, Microsoft moved the web forward faster from 96-00 than any other browser maker has.
• I don’t know why MS abandoned IE, but I do know that web developers were begging them to stop innovating and just follow the committee.
• Why are app stores threatening the web and luring developers like me away from it? “Evil” proprietary tech is blowing the web away.
• I want desperately to be a web developer again, but if I have to wait until 2020 for browsers to do what Cocoa can do in 2010, I won’t wait.
• @KuraFire Did Microsoft patent their non-standard html/javascript/css extensions, preventing other browsers from implementing them?
• @johnfoliot True, they [w3c] don’t dictate, but developers shame others who use non-standard APIs. That’s the problem.
• I am ranting because I want to drop Cocoa and go back to the web, but I am upset about how much power I have to give up to do that.
• How it should go: browsers innovate differently, users pick the best one, later W3C standardizes what users chose, losing browsers conform.
• I’ve been hard on Flash, but we should all thank Macromedia/Adobe for 10 years of picking up the slack of the W3C, Microsoft, and Mozilla.

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