Nintendo upgrading the Wii Opera browser?
Rumor has it that Nintendo are to release an update to the Opera browser on the Wii. Haven’t read anything so far as to whether Flash will be upgraded too (it’s currently stuck on Flash 7 whereas the PS3 recently had its version of Flash updated to 9). Come on Nintendo; you know it makes sense! Pretty please?
Very cool Safari iPhone demo
It seems Apple included a Safari update in their recent 2.1 firmware upgrade and have now opened up a few new things for web developers to play with, as Matthew Congrove blogs about on myDailyPhoto. His iPhone Safari Flick Navigation demo is really impressive and opens up new ways of serving web content to iPhone/iPod Touch users.
Browse the demo directly from your iPhone by clicking here. Article originally spotted on Ajaxian.
iPhone touching and gesturing
Really interesting article here on some of the things you can achieve with HTML and JavaScript for iPhone’s Safari browser. I’m an iPhone n00b but am impressed so far with the device (which’ll be even better once O2 enable the “phone” part and connect me by midnight tonight apparently). Being able to develop iPhone-specific web content interests me and it seems you’re able to work with screen interaction quite a bit.
Direct link to the demo here, but won’t work properly unless you’re viewing with an iPhone/iPod Touch.
Ordered an iPhone 3G!
Not much else to say; life’s been hard recently and it’s my birthday soon so I thought I’d treat myself. I’ve only ever briefly tried an iPod Touch and was impressed, but am dying to try out the revised iPhone.
I’ve begun reading some tutorials on web development for Safari on the phone. Massive shame that Flash isn’t on the device (come on Apple/Adobe, make it happen!). Interesting to see how it integrates with my Macbook.
Roll on friday! 
Flex accessibility
A good post from Aral regarding the state of accessibility within Flex. I hope they concentrate on this side of Flash soon rather than adding more wizzy features; it seems with Flash and AJAX you’re always having to hold your hands up and admit that they don’t bring a lot to the party when it comes to people with specific accessibility issues.
Flash performance in browsers and within AIR
Meant to post this before. Interesting comparison between the performance of Flash within a browser and within the AIR runtime.
Safari 3.1 kicks ass
Apple have updated Safari to version 3.1 to include support for a lot of cutting-edge technology (including client-side database storage), along with adding a native developer dropdown (enabled within the preferences section). With Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 coming soon and, erm, IE8, it’s looking like the browser market is about to make web developer’s lives a lot more interesting soon.
By “interesting” I of course mean more difficult!
P.S. Visit this page in Safari 3.1 to see some funky CSS animation. Coo!
Death of the Netscape browser
AOL, who these days own Netscape, have announced that they’re to cease development of the browser. I’ve mixed feeling weirdly enough, although from a professional point of view it’s good news as it’s one less browser to have to test websites against in the long term.
When I started out developing websites, Netscape was the browser our company mainly tested against, mainly because it was a lot more powerful and popular than the Microsoft browser at the time. As time progressed this situation obviously changed, but there was a time when companies proudly displayed “built for Netscape Navigator” icons at the bottom of their sites.
I don’t think anyone has seriously used Netscape for years; it kinda turned into a weird mish-mash of Firefox and IE in the end, and because they haven’t managed to make a dent in IE’s market share they’ve decided to quit.