Tried to upload a bunch of photos now, got a "you exceeded your bandwidth quota for a free account) – so, this is either a bug or they simply moved the limits to something else…
There was a session at the recent Google I/O that basically tells us why Chrome is laggy in touch-mode, they try to stay away from “vendor specific” gesture specs, but the way current specs handle touch translation to mouse events really gets in the way of optimized display display threads via GPUs – because when touch events happen and need to move to mouse emulation events, they have to fall out of the GPU thread and into Javascript and the main-UI thread. IE10 (and Safari) have vendor specific gesture specs that really go around this stuff – and until a new spec that everyone implements is available, or Chrome adopts the Microsoft Pointers spec (at a minimum) – we are likely to see this kind of problem with Chrome.
If anything, Microsoft needs to buy HTC. They do not make tons of money but they make some really nice hardware and they have experience with Windows Phone.
Get them, kill their Android line and apply it all to create the Microsoft HTC Surface based on the One hardware design.
Google should open the API meta data to everyone on every platform, just like Microsoft had to open Windows to any browser.
Basically, Google is using their market dominant position in online-video to block competitors from competing on platforms it does not control, as Microsoft did to browsers in the Windows world.
I write software for all 3 environments, and while I would not say “better” – I would argue that it has better infrastructure to go forward and you will likely see a lot of these changes materialize with time. I expect iOS and Android will have to expand with a lot of the things in the same vain, I just wonder how organized the APIs are going to be and wonder if they will start to fill like a kludge.
I think the API is better organized, the gesture controls are very good, the contract idea has a lot of merit.
WinRT (the API) gives me a lot of the same feel I get from ChromeOS – it is very neatly organized and logical for developers with a lot of nicely designed structures and capabilities baked in – in a consistent manner.
I got one of these for my wife a while ago – and it is a real nice little machine. Sure, it has limitations, but if you purchase it for someone that does not need too much, it is a really competent little machine for a very reasonable price.
Windows 2.0 – trying to replace DESQview.
I started using it more seriously with Windows 3.0 and the early Turbo Pascal for Windows (or BPW) – when it was still classic Windows API tool (before Delphi brought an object oriented layer for Windows development).
