Five years ago, when prototyping some apps for PDAs, I’d never consider HTML + javascript. This is because there are enough form factor issues as well as browser incompatibilities to keep one awake all night.
Things have changed.
WebKit seems to have gained ground in the mobile space, giving compatibility a much needed shot in the [...]

Jan Erik calls me the “high IQ” type. Unfortunately, I think he means “impractical” and “living in an invory tower”.
The idea of a inlining JavaFX script is actually a smaller and incremental goal. It is practical and is achievable. It will allow people who don’t have the JavaFX SDK to experiment with the technology, within [...]

This page is where I keep track of interaction design patterns. It will be particularly useful to implement these behaviors in JavaFX/Flex base-classes for nodes so that UX designer don’t have to nitpick over details like these:

Yorai discusses the effect of mouse clicks and shift click, control click on focus, selection, activating in-place editing, dragging
Raymond [...]

I was having a play with custom renderers in Java Swing, and comparing them with the effort required in .NET. I find that in this case, the Swing approaches the problem at a higher level of abstraction (less effort), at the expense of a lot of new objects being created, while .NET goes for a [...]