Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Traditionally browsing architectures have had a rather arbitrary separation between the rendering engine (suitable for embedding and reuse) and the browser user interface (not so much). These terms are a bit misleading because "rendering" necessarily entails far more than just painting HTML on the screen; the core engine is likely ...
Tags: architecture, fluid, prism, ssb | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
A post by my Prism partner in crime Mark Finkle sent me spiraling back in time along an interlocking blogathon of attempts to nail down the term Rich Internet Application. Intense speed-reading of so many mammoth posts can scar the psyche, so let me paraphrase them and save you the ...
Tags: adobe, ajax, flash, flex, microsoft, prism, ria, silverlight, standards | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
A few years ago, having just started work on a very ambitious (and now defunct) Firefox extension, my business partner and I met with some of the Mozilla top brass to pick their brains. One of the most interesting tidbits that we walked away with was the rough estimate that ...
Tags: extensions, firefox, rants | 7 Comments »
Friday, April 11th, 2008
An article this month in Portfolio chronicles the disappointing stagnation of Joost, one of the most hyped startups of recent years. The conclusion appears to be that web-based video a la YouTube has trumped the technical advantages of Joost's P2P-powered client. Given the choice between downloading a special piece of ...
Tags: joost, media browsers | 5 Comments »
Monday, April 7th, 2008
My first guest post for TechCrunch, on the subject of single-site browsers, attracted a lot of interest and no small number of questions. Without seeing them in action, it's pretty hard to grasp what's so great about what sounds like a stripped down, less functional version of a normal web ...
Tags: air, bubbles, fluid, prism, ssb, standards, techcrunch | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
In my new incarnation as an independent software development consultant (read: programmer who works in his pajamas), I need to track the hours that I spend working for my clients. I've been using SlimTimer, a simple but wholly sufficient web app (highly recommended). It displays a nifty floating browser window ...
Tags: prism, slimtimer, ssb | 2 Comments »