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Dharmesh Mistry
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Dharmesh Mistry has supported financial services organisations with technology and management expertise for over 20 years. Dharmesh is CTO of edge IPK focusing on developing and launching an Open Presentation Platform built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
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HTML5: The right time right place for mobile?
HTML5 could be the answer to cross-platform compatibility
Most people by now understand that main challenge for developing mobile applications is creating a solution that runs on as many platforms as possible. This challenge can range from supporting browsers that only support text, up to fully fledged smartphones....
February 6, 2012 11:06 AM Read Full Post
The end of Apple?
How long can Apple keep its hardware and software "closed"?
We are clearly in the web age an era that has turned everyone into readers and publishers of free content. In this era we have seen the rise of open source, free software and the move to software and services...
January 30, 2012 10:58 AM Read Full Post
HTML 5 makes the browser smarter
Write less Javascript for lighter, smarter sites
The unsung hero of the web has always been Javascript, without which the standards-based web would be completely static. Javascript enables functionality to be executed in the browser, and has been used to create all sorts of effects otherwise not...
January 23, 2012 9:39 AM Read Full Post
HTML5 gets pushy
A faster alternative to Comet
In the past there have been a number of clever approaches to get around the limitations of web technologies inability to allow servers to broadcast messages/data to clients. One of the more popular libraries for such capability has been Comet....
January 17, 2012 11:08 AM Read Full Post
Using Polyfill to cover up the cracks in HTML5
Creating web applications with backwards compatability for older browsers.
Long gone are the days when Internet Explorer had 95% of the browser market. We have lived in multi-browser world since the start of the web. Whilst this has its plus point, it also has its downsides - none more...
October 19, 2011 8:00 AM Read Full Post
HTML5 The proprietary standard
How vendors make standard proprietary.
The good thing about standards is that they are uniform across different vendor implementation. Well that is at least the primary goal. So how does a vendor make a standard proprietary? Well it’s quite easy really you provide extensions to...
October 13, 2011 8:00 AM Read Full Post
The BBC does a U-turn on HTML 5
As HTML5 fever increases it is a question of when you support it rather than if
Rewind to August 13th 2010 and Erik Huggers Director of BBC Future and Technology blogged that the the BBC were committed to open standards but "HTML5 is starting to sail off course". At the time I thought this was a...
October 7, 2011 10:37 AM Read Full Post
Arise the new CEO: Chief eXperience Officer
User Experience is becoming a Board Level issue
Since the early days of the web, marketeers have espoused the merits of “managing customer experience” and how online it is only the “experience” that will differentiate companies as the web brings pricing transparency. Certainly in the case of the...
July 12, 2011 2:24 PM Read Full Post
The web battle: HTML5 vs Silverlight vs Flash
Choosing technology for the web
My previous posts about “The end of Silverlight” and “The end of Flash” both raised active debate. The general view was that I knew too little about Silverlight and Flash to make such brash claims and whilst there is some...
July 4, 2011 1:43 PM Read Full Post
HTML5 audio and video as standard
Bring in the popcorn to watch moving pictures and sound on the web
Movie and Audio features in HTML5 are like many of the features I have discussed previously, they:• Have a history of controversy over Codec support• Specifications are too large to do real justice in these short posts• Are an exciting,...
June 26, 2011 8:00 AM Read Full Post
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