ipad poll

[chef]

i'd prefer something just a bit more simple without all the fandangled touch screen technology and simply the ability to play music and video but with enough storage space it can hold the 100+Gb of movies/music I have.

That's a bit like saying you wouldn't mind having a motorbike if only it could carry the three filing cabinets from your office.

like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archos-250GB...ref=pd_cp_ce_1

I was thinking more of this, gf chef happened to buy me one for my birthday and it fits my needs perfectly

[Churchill]

I was thinking more of this, gf chef happened to buy me one for my birthday and it fits my needs perfectly

Got one, I want a new toy!

[PAH]

That fact alone is a blessing. The sooner Flash is killed by HTML5, the better.

How soon are we realistically looking at for HTML 5 to be supported by all popular browsers so it can take a proper foothold?

The one thing (as a primarily asp.net contractor) I really hate about .net is how they keep trying to reinvent the wheel. At the end of the day it still needs to output html and even then html that is cross browser compatible.

For that reason they can shove AJAX, MVC, JQUERY where the sun doesn't shine, I'm more than happy with standard ASP.Net 2.0 and more importantly so are the clients!

[NickFitz]

How soon are we realistically looking at for HTML 5 to be supported by all popular browsers so it can take a proper foothold?

The one thing (as a primarily asp.net contractor) I really hate about .net is how they keep trying to reinvent the wheel. At the end of the day it still needs to output html and even then html that is cross browser compatible.

For that reason they can shove AJAX, MVC, JQUERY where the sun doesn't shine, I'm more than happy with standard ASP.Net 2.0 and more importantly so are the clients!

Browser vendors are already implementing it; even MS are formally on board, although their update cycle moves at a snail's pace compared to the others. Also, implementations of various aspects of CSS3 are coming along nicely, at least in WebKit/Opera/Firefox.

Of course a good chunk of HTML5 is about properly describing existing browser behaviour in the face of things like malformed markup, so that there are guarantees of consistency across the board; it's not just about new input elements and so on.

There's a good chance that IE9 will implement at least some parts of the new spec that have managed to get to a reasonably stable state. Give it a couple of years.

I noticed that the Apple iPad page used the <video> element, for Safari and Chrome (the only ones that currently support it with H.264). YouTube now has a public beta of <video> support too (again, only for WebKit browsers supporting H.264), as do some of the not-quite-so-popular video sharing sites.

[PAH]

There's a good chance that IE9 will implement at least some parts of the new spec that have managed to get to a reasonably stable state. Give it a couple of years.

That's part of the problem, IE is never fully compliant so there's still fragmentation and confusion leading to websites that are neither here nor there and a multitude of bolt-on technologies that only make things worse.

Maybe that's why Apple clean up, they offer one interface, take it or leave it, no half-assed implementation of a standard. The benefit to Apple is it locks in their audience so they can charge more.

Perhaps the iPad has a bigger task at hand than being another me-too device, the task of reducing MS's market share of user interfaces so eventually MS will have to conform and then we'll get one standard and everyone working to it. One can dream.

[Not So Wise]

Even putting aside my general dislike for apple products (nothing to do with the products themselves, more to do with the "control freak" nature of apple, if I paid for something I want to do whatever I want with it) can see no real market for the ipad as it currently stands beyond the fanboys and those with money to waste. It's just basically an oversized itouch, now if they had done a Mac in tablet form.....

Hopefully the other companies will take full advantage of this cock up and come up with something 10 times better before apple have a chance to get it right in a ipad generation or two

[TykeMerc]

Even putting aside my general dislike for apple products (nothing to do with the products themselves, more to do with the "control freak" nature of apple, if I paid for something I want to do whatever I want with it) can see no real market for the ipad as it currently stands beyond the fanboys and those with money to waste. It's just basically an oversized itouch, now if they had done a Mac in tablet form.....

Hopefully the other companies will take full advantage of this cock up and come up with something 10 times better before apple have a chance to get it right in a ipad generation or two

You could have said the same about the original iPhone, a few bells and whistles aside it was a bit of a retrograde step compared to many phones available.

Why anyone would buy a computing device without USB capability these days I just don't comprehend.

Apple are excellent at the marketing game.

[Churchill]

Even putting aside my general dislike for apple products (nothing to do with the products themselves, more to do with the "control freak" nature of apple, if I paid for something I want to do whatever I want with it) can see no real market for the ipad as it currently stands beyond the fanboys and those with money to waste. It's just basically an oversized itouch, now if they had done a Mac in tablet form.....

Hopefully the other companies will take full advantage of this cock up and come up with something 10 times better before apple have a chance to get it right in a ipad generation or two

With respect I think you're confusing the iPad with a general purpose computing device. It isn't, it is a piece of consumer electronics.

[voodooflux]

Hitler responds to the iPad [YouTube]

[NickFitz]

With respect I think you're confusing the iPad with a general purpose computing device. It isn't, it is a piece of consumer electronics.

Exactly