Pretty big news from the jQuery camp today. Both Microsoft and Nokia will be making it part of their development platforms.
Extra interesting is that they aren’t forking, but utilizing the existing code under the same license, and will contribute and participate like everyone else.
I’ve been using jQuery on sites for quite a while now (about 2 years). Seeing more and more support for it just makes me feel that it was an even better decision.
Congrats to the jQuery team.
Several months ago I mentioned the Nokia N800. Recently a Mozilla based browser was released. This got me extra interested. Apparently flash support is improved, and you could run a better browser. Also can run Skype, and openSSH. What more could you want?
Well there is a killer thing missing: offline support. It’s a WiFi only device (which IMHO is fine), meaning no data connection if your not in range of a hotspot unless you use bluetooth and your cellphone, but that’s expensive. I’d love to see offline support. I’m surprised Google hasn’t stepped up to the plate and released a version of Google Gears the N800. Seems like it would be the perfect application.
Very interesting product.
The Nokia N800 looks really cool, but I wonder if it’s size is a little to large to make it practical to carry around. The lack of good Flash support, and weak MPEG4 (my guess would be lack of an onboard decoder and using software to make up for it). The fact that it’s Linux powered means you can run a fair amount of desktop software on it, with a little patience.
The size is really what hurts. If it were a little smaller, it would be a really cool PDA-like device.
I’m still curious what people will figure out can be done with the hardware. It’s still too new to tell. From what I’ve read it’s somewhat powerful, so the potential is there.
This article may be the best press yet for Mozilla. A great review of what Mozilla was/is/misconceptions/roadmap.
Must read, especially if you read this blog.