Overtly Open - A Tech Editorial Cartoon

The Extremes of Web Video

2010-04-23T00:00:00-05:00

Transcript

Scene: Two panes, one with a sad loveable Mozilla dino, the other with Steve Jobs.

Dino: For Firefox we chose the least-used, oldest video technology we could find.

Crowd: One lonely cheer. “Yay.”

Jobs: We’ve done something we think you’re gonna love. We’ve replaced the most popular, most used, widely accessible video technology with a nascent web standard!

Crowd: Large crowd roars with approval.

Evolution of Flash's Death

2010-03-21T00:00:00-05:00

Transcript

Scene: Three panes with the same person in front of a computer screen repeated for each pane.

First pane: Pane has a title of “DHTML”. The person proclaims “Flash is dead!”

Second pane: Pane has a title of “AJAX”. The person proclaims “Flash is dead!”

Third pane: Pane has a title of “HTML5”. The person proclaims “Flash is dead!”

Sacrifices For Standards

2009-12-06T00:00:00-06:00

Transcript

Scene: There are two stone altars with smoking piles of ash. One altar has the label “ECMASCRIPT 5”, the other altar has the label “HTML5”. Two characters are talking to each other.

Character with “g” on shirt: Wow! There go offline local cache, database, and worker pools all in the name of standards! What did you have to sacrifice Brendan?

Brendan: Please, there are classes, interfaces, namespaces, packages, a rich type system, and E4X in my smoking ash pile!

Biting The Hand That Feeds

2009-11-25T00:00:00-06:00

Transcript

Scene: A hand dropping an App Store icon as a result of a vicious dog lunging with mouth open. In the background is a healthy pile of App Store icons piled in a dog food bowl with a “100,000 APPS” label on it. The dog has a dog tag with an apple image on it.