A narrative on the future of web browsers and web browsing

Archive for July, 2008

SproutCore and Standards-Based Rich Internet Applications

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

It's not often that I get to repudiate completely my most recent blog post a few days after publishing it. But anyone who is not yet convinced that the answer to the question of whether web apps are an endangered species is an emphatic "no" should run, not walk, to ...

Are Web Apps an Endangered Species?

Friday, July 25th, 2008

The launch of the iPhone App Store got me thinking about the future of web apps. After all, Apple had initially announced that the SDK for the iPhone would be Safari. In other words, iPhone applications would be web apps. As a proponent of using web technologies for application development, ...

Mozilla Prism 0.9.1 (Experimental) Now Available

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

I'm finally back from my longest vacation since college (which was a while ago, believe me), which coincided with an equally long blogging hiatus. Don't worry, I'll be ramping up now to my normal sluggish blogging rhythm. In the meantime, I've created some new Prism builds for those who want to ...