Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
All the communication around Google Gears seems to center on its role in adding offline storage capabilities to the browser. In reality, Google's vision for the product goes far beyond this. On his personal blog, Gears developer Dion Almaer spills the beans on the sprawling array of services they are ...
Tags: gears, google, ssb, standards, whatwg | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Yesterday I mentioned in passing my bet with Mike Shaver that Adobe will deliver AIR as part of a new Flash version at some point during the year. So naturally I speed-dialed my accountant when I saw the following on Ajaxian this morning:
The biggest advantage that AIR has, though, is ...
Tags: adobe, air, flash | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
"I keep telling people that Firefox is just a measly stub built on XULRunner, but they don't believe me. They claim that Mozilla stopped supporting XULRunner and I'm telling lies."
This comment was made to me by Benjamin Smedberg, who is the driving force behind XULRunner, Mozilla's platform for building portable, ...
Tags: air, dotnet, firefox, mozilla, ria, silverlight, xulrunner | 13 Comments »
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Evan Hamilton, Flock's "Community Ambassador", gives a brief overview of the features planned for Flock 1.1, which is slated for release in a few weeks. Though I haven't actually tried the browser for a shamefully long time, I've always been a big fan and proponent of Flock's vision. I'm still ...
Tags: botw, flock | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Last month, Microsoft announced to general astonishment that the upcoming release of Internet Explorer will pass the Acid2 test of standards compliance. They even went as far as to publish a video containing interviews with leading members of the IE team and a fascinating inside look at their Acid2 quest. ...
Tags: acid2, ie, microsoft, opera | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Most people seem to labor under the misconception that web standardization is a well-regimented, orderly process with a clear set of rules. In particular, the uninitiated believe that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the anointed standards body for the web. Vendors get together, agree on some new markup ...
Tags: acid2, ie, microsoft, rants, standards, w3c, whatwg | 7 Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Is the television next in line for a big technology-driven overhaul as the transformation of mobile phones into miniature computers continues apace? A panoply of set-top boxes are vying to serve as the brains of the humble boob tube, from PVRs (TiVo and company) through game consoles (XBox, Playstation, Wii) ...
Tags: apple tv, google, iphone, media center, opera, playstation, pvr, slingbox, tivo, trends, tv, wii, xbox | No Comments »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Since I'm now a total iPhone fan boy, I'm officially allowed to say that I was a little disappointed by the 1.1.3 firmware update announced on Tuesday at Macworld. I'm actually still running the 1.1.1 firmware, since I couldn't find a freely available hack to unlock 1.1.2 for use here ...
Tags: adobe, flash, iphone, offline | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Read/WriteTalk, the podcast arm of popular blog Read/WriteWeb, has a wide-ranging audio interview with newly minted Mozilla CEO John Lilly. The first and most interesting topic is the nature of Mozilla as a commercially funded non-profit and the influence it is likely to have on other organizations:
John Lilly: A lot ...
Tags: firefox, money, mozilla, podcast, weave | No Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
One thing that clearly differentiates web apps from their desktop counterparts is that the former run inside a tab or page in the web browser rather than in their own process. This has a number of drawbacks, several of which are elegantly set forth in the blog post announcing the ...
Tags: adobe, air, fluid, gears, google, mozilla, prism, sqlite, ssb, trends | 2 Comments »