Browser Bits and Bobs for Septembers 16, 2008
September 16, 2008 – 6:50 pm- I didn’t see a compelling reason to switch to Opera when I tried it, so in the interest of fair and balanced coverage, here are 10 reasons why you should use the Opera browser, according to one commentator.
- Interview with Aza Raskin (Mozilla’s head of user experience) about the future of Ubiquity.
- Intriguing commentary on Chrome’s user experience manifesto. This one deserves a full post all to itself. Still think Google isn’t planning to replace traditional desktop GUIs?
- An update on Microsoft’s upcoming mobile browser release. By all accounts Windows CE is starting to approach something resembling usable. Clearly the iPhone casts a long shadow.
- Seth Godin argues that Mozilla should add viral features to Firefox to counter the Chrome threat. Techdirt replies that this runs counter to the Mozilla ethos. I agree, which is why a third party would be better placed to implement this type of feature (as we tried to do with AllPeers).
- Finally, Gears for Safari. I wonder what will have more impact, Chrome or Gears.
- Supposedly Chrome is stealing users from IE while helping Firefox to gain market share. Catchy headline but it looks like a statistical blip to me.
2 Responses to “Browser Bits and Bobs for Septembers 16, 2008”
About the “intriguing comentary” on google chrome user experience manifesto: here’s another one from the release notes of version 0.2.152.1 ;
“…Enables the new tab and window manager code…”
Makes you wonder, right?
Here’s the URL of the release notes
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes/release-notes-021521
Yeah, I think google is trying to provide us with a “true” shell for the web. Not just a browser. The future will certainly tell!
By francisz on Sep 16, 2008