An Apple iPhone ad has been banned in the UK for claiming that "all the parts of the Internet are on the iPhone." The big beef here is that Flash and Java applets don't play on the iPhone.

I'm with Apple on this one. Gee, Adobe, I don't see your proprietary format defined in any W3C standards documents. And Sun took forever and a day to fully open Java and did a horrible job of addressing the many, many, many, many bugs that made Java in web browsers so deeply disappointing. Java applets appear in about 0.00005% of pages... those that have hardly been touched in the last ten years (yes, including my own Fracster).

I don't see why you should be able to define your product as one of the essential "parts of the Internet" and keep it closed up tight at the same time.

Tags: adobe, apple, flash, geek, iphone, java, sun, web

Today sheikyarboutisoft shook the Internets to their core with the release of "Sparkletwobot," an Adobe AIR application that has absolutely nothing to do with Twitter.

In other news, our correspondents in the underworld expect the recent cold snap in Hades to end "any time now."

Seriously, who's using Adobe AIR to write anything but Twitter clients? Is it the Hello World example application or something?

Tags: adobe, air, geek, twitter, web

Do you use the Twhirl Twitter client?

Does it remember passwords for you (when asked to do so)?

Mine never remembers them. However, I'm running it on Linux, and Adobe AIR (a cross-platform environment for which Twhirl ws written) is in beta on Linux. So I'm not sure where the fault might lie. Twhirl does remember other information, though.

Tags: adobe, air, geek, linux, twhirl, twitter