a pint of javascript (and general web stuff)

Day after day we see a new release from one of the major internet browser developers boasting how they comply with web standards and how they are targeting a gazillion of experimental features that no one cares about (I bet only 3% of web developers cared to study the bible of -webkit prefixes), yet except for Firefox* all of them get border-radius completely wrong (Firefox actually has a minor annoyance but it's bearable). Can you say you are standards-compliant if you have a broken implementation?
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Dear Steve Jobs: you don't have a clue.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the world of the sad truth you didn't want to read. Today is the day to settle once and for all the moot debate around "HTML5 vs. Flash". The vicious debate that is clogging the intertubes is utterly pointless, yet still there's a big crowd of fundamentalists that don't get why.

Let's put some nails in the idiotic debate coffin.

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Blog software upgrades are becoming more frequent than real content on this blog, so I guess it's a good time for a small review on WP 2.5. Let me start by telling this will be a mix on ranting, praising and random bashing, so get tight on your seats and let's begin.
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let me tell you something: editing a wordpress theme using the wordpress interface plainly sucks.

And no, it's not a problem of being a newbie in wordpress, it's just that there's too much duplicated code revolving on the structure, at least on the default Kubrick theme that is supposed to be the one that shows off most of wordpress "features".
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