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Re: Brackets Editor 0.44 Released With Split View ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

Ryan Stewart — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:20:47 -0000

Thanks for the write up. We (Adobe) are still very involved in the project and have a number of engineers on it full time. Luckily we've also gotten great community support.

One thing we'd love to have the community help us more with is some of the Linux work required to get it to feature parity with our Mac and Windows releases. We don't have a lot of native Linux experience on the team so any help the community can offer would be a big help.

If you're interested, this page [https://github.com/adobe/br...] has some info about contributing to the Linux distribution. Or feel free to email me.

=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com

Re: 8 awesome extensions for Brackets

Ryan Stewart — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 02:54:03 -0000

This is an awesome list! Thanks for doing the writeup. And we've addressed a couple of your criticism in the last few releases!

You can edit multiple lines in Brackets by holding the Ctrl/Cmd key and clicking on a new line. That will give you multiple cursors in that location. And this week's release of Brackets will show LESS and Sass (SCSS initially) files in Quick Edit so you can use that feature when you're using preprocessors.

Thanks a ton for checking out Brackets! We always love getting feedback.

=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com

Re: Edward Abbey Starred in a Seven Minute Film, It is Fantastic

Ryan Stewart — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:12:35 -0000

Holy crap! What a fantastic find. This makes Desert Solitare come to life. Dan, thanks for the book recommendation.

Re: I’m the Edge Code Product Manager

Ryan Stewart — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:35:25 -0000

Node JS is definitely coming. And yeah, Edge Code can use any of the extensions that Brackets uses.

Re: I’m the Edge Code Product Manager

Ryan Stewart — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:41:38 -0000

Thanks Aaron!

Re: Using Ratchet with PhoneGap

Ryan Stewart — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:54:43 -0000

I'm planning on it. I started a discussion about it on the mailing list but didn't get any response. So I'm going to submit a pull request later today and see if they'll take it.

Re: Using Ratchet with PhoneGap

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:24:52 -0000

Awesome, thanks Simon. I tweaked my ratchet.js file to incorporate that. Really appreciate the feedback.

Re: The Mobile Web is Always the Right Answer

Ryan Stewart — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:28:04 -0000

A couple of things. One, mobile web browsing is going to continue to increase based on a number of surveys. Secondly, I'm just talking about access numbers. Actual engagement time tends to be higher with mobile apps but for raw number of devices, it will include people who maybe don't use Facebook enough to download the app.

I based the prediction on those two things but ultimately it's just a gut feeling.

Re: Don’t Settle for a Mediocre HTML5 App Experience

Ryan Stewart — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:34:23 -0000

That's a good and interesting point. I'd argue that jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch, while getting better, don't come anywhere close to competing with native frameworks on speed and performance. Is that part of the problem? That when you go native, you get access to fantastic frameworks/UI components that make building an app better? Whereas on the HTML/hybrid side, the frameworks are a lot slower and to get good performance you either have to build from scratch or really, really tweak the frameworks.

Re: The Mobile Web is Always the Right Answer

Ryan Stewart — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:37:54 -0000

Again, I'm not talking about hybrid apps versus native apps. I'm talking about making sure to have the mobile web be a core part of your strategy. While I'm sure Facebooks mobile web/native usage numbers might be a bit higher, I'm guessing that the mobile web usage will still be double either the iOS or Android versions in a year.

Re: Don’t Settle for a Mediocre HTML5 App Experience

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:19:41 -0000

That app looks awesome. And I agree that a custom UI is critical and often preferred, I just think it's tough for a lot of developers to do. And for a Photo app like yours, I'm not sure HTML would even be a good option because it wouldn't have the power to do a lot of the filters/effects it looks like you're doing.

But I don't think that means you can make a blanket statement that HTML is lousy. It looks like it would have been lousy for your app but I think it could have been a good choice for Facebook if they'd optimized, tweaked, and stuck to it.

Re: Don’t Settle for a Mediocre HTML5 App Experience

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:40:14 -0000

The UIWebView on Safari is a huge, huge deal, and you're right. Hopefully it's something that will be addressed down the road. But the problem with HTML vs Native comparisons right now is that I don't think we have a lot of spectacular HTML examples.

And that's the premise of the article. Even big companies like Facebook that *could* do it start from a place of "lets do this because it's faster/cheaper/better". Then when it comes time to actually build something polished, they go native because it's easier to build a great looking native app than a comprable HTML one right now.

Re: Don’t Settle for a Mediocre HTML5 App Experience

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:17:57 -0000

It's always interesting to me that these native apps are built on the web infrastructure. I think in some ways that only helps the case for the wider use of web technologies on mobile.

Re: Don’t Settle for a Mediocre HTML5 App Experience

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:11:42 -0000

Hah, done, thanks.

Re: Don’t Settle for a Mediocre HTML5 App Experience

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:10:28 -0000

I think games are a much different beast because they're not as dependent on UI components as most HTML apps are. When you're building something that's completely branded, like a game, it's easier to reuse code than something where you have to drastically change UI elements to be cross platform.

Re: Don’t Settle for a Mediocre HTML5 App Experience

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:09:22 -0000

I agree, and think that's the problem. People choose HTML because it's *supposed* to be faster/cheaper/better but it doesn't turn out that way for a variety of reasons.

Re: Always Starting Chrome with Brackets Live Preview Support

Ryan Stewart — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:33:47 -0000

Thanks for the catch Randy. And I updated the page to reflect that it's only Mac.

Re: Passing Data Between Pages in jQuery Mobile

Ryan Stewart — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:36:18 -0000

Looks like it just automatically unapproved it because of the code. Just approved it.

Re: PhoneGap 2.0.0rc1 – With Command Line Goodness

Ryan Stewart — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:13:14 -0000

Yeah, pretty much. Flash was great and I know there are still some great uses for it (and AIR) but for the most part HTML/JS/CSS can now do most of the cool stuff.

Re: A Response to Benjamin Sandofsky’s Shell Apps

Ryan Stewart — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:37:02 -0000

Definitely. And I think that's the major knock on HTML-centric apps. It's tough to get that exact experience right when you're targeting different platforms. I don't think it's impossible, but it's tough. And Ben (Sandofsky) brings up some good points about those behaviors.

Even more, traditionally web devs don't *think* about those as much, so I also think there's some learning that has to go on so that they can build apps that are easy to learn and based on UX patterns that users already know and understand.

Re: A Response to Benjamin Sandofsky’s Shell Apps

Ryan Stewart — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:28:38 -0000

Yup, totally agree. I think hopefully as more general web devs/designers start looking at shell or HTML-centric apps, we'll see some kick ass examples that can be pointed to as evidence that users just like good apps.

Re: The PhoneGap Starter Project

Ryan Stewart — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:07:35 -0000

Thanks Eric, and I agree. The plugins would be super helpful. Project for the weekend hopefully!

Re: Web Versus Native – Asking the Wrong Questions

Ryan Stewart — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:48:15 -0000

I love that point. And it's one of the things I like about how Android works, you get updates from the cloud, it (in theory) syncs your apps. But the flow isn't perfect and I'm at the point of update fatigue because I feel like my phone is always telling me I have 9 updates to apps I need to make.

Re: Web Versus Native – Asking the Wrong Questions

Ryan Stewart — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:47:03 -0000

But that's the thing, I don't believe that "better" implies more API access or faster performance than native. Because you're absolutely right, the web won't ever be able to compete on those fronts. What I mean by "better" is that the trade-offs developer's make for the web outweigh the core benefits of native access. That's why I used 2003/2004 as an example. The web wasn't faster or more feature-rich than native apps, but a lot of people saw it as better because of what it could do. With smart phones we're in a tough spot because they took away some of those advantages.

So when I say the web needs to be better I don't mean that it needs to surpass the features of native development. Just that it needs to be better than native at what it's good at to make the development decision tilt more in favor of web apps when targeting mobile devices.

Re: Installing the ChildBrowser Plugin for iOS with PhoneGap/Cordova 1.5

Ryan Stewart — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:19:53 -0000

Sorry it took updating XCode. That seems like a crappy solution, but hopefully it wasn't too painful!