Bookmarks for 25 Feb 2010
- Flash Player content, Mouse Events, and Touch input at Mike Chambers
"So, the Interwebs is all a buzz again around the latest article that “proves” that Flash will not be useful on mobile devices (much less the iPad). [...] I wanted to make a quick post that corrects some of the false assumptions and conclusions presented in the article [...]" Plus demo. (flash mobile user_experience ) - InfoQ: Google Will Stop Supporting Older Browsers
"Google has announced they will stop supporting older and less secure browsers like IE6, Firefox 2.x, Chrome 3 or Safari 2 starting with Google Docs and Google Sites editor from March 1st, 2010." Plus various facts and figures. (ie6 browsers google ) - 25 Tips for Intermediate Git Users : Andy Jeffries : Ruby on Rails, MySQL and jQuery Developer
"As someone who’s always felt fairly comfortable in Git, I thought sharing some of the nuggets I learnt with the community might help someone to find an answer without needing to do lots of research." (git tips version_control ) - Bus maps | Transport for London
Terrific Google Maps mashup showing London bus routes. From TfL. (mapping london transport tfl travel ) - Wall's Rise & Fall | The Wall Street Journal Europe
Flash app from europe.WSJ.com showing the history of the Berlin wall. It's up for an award at the 2010 British Press Awards. (history flash wsj awards ) - Winter Olympics medals – search by country, games, medal type or year
"Winter-Olympic Medals is a research interface to see all the information about the medals won in the Winter Olympics so far. You can see the medals by games, sports, disciplines and countries or use the interactive grid to see all the information in one interface.The data driving this web site was provided by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK and you can re-use it using our API. Read more about the history of this in the about page." (yql open_platform olympics sport )