Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Opera Mini 4.1, with a number of bug fixes and tweaks, has been released.
TechCrunch with an article on Mozilla's "stealth data project", which aims to collect statistics on web usage from Firefox's 170 million strong user base. Mozilla CEO John Lilly provides some clarification.
Mozilla joins the LiMo Foundation, which develops ...
Tags: adobe, android, bits and bobs, flash, limo, mozilla, opera | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
If nothing else, Microsoft's prolonged attempt to acquire Yahoo has added some zest to the tech news echo chamber. The ongoing saga has provided seemingly endless fodder for mainstream news outlets and blogs to speculate about the financial merits of the deal, the strategic implications for Microsoft and Yahoo's allergic ...
Tags: adobe, flash, microsoft, silverlight, yahoo | 6 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, March 12th, 2008
With the announcement of the first official release of AIR, all eyes have been on Adobe's ambitions in the Rich Internet Application (RIA) space. But Adobe also has far-reaching plans to add new features to its Flash runtime with big implications for the web, both inside the browser and out.
Content ...
Tags: adobe, drm, flash, open source, p2p, tamarin, voip | 10 Comments »
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
There were so many great comments on yesterday's post that I have material for at least two follow-ups. I'll talk more about the new DRM capabilities of Adobe Flash tomorrow, but first let me clarify a couple of points about the open web. Considering that most people reading this are ...
Tags: adobe, open web, rants | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
With the official release yesterday of Adobe AIR and Flex 3, it's worth taking another look at the question of what these products mean for the evolution of the web. Criticism of Adobe for the proprietary nature of its technology is hardly novel. A widely read piece by Ted Leung ...
Tags: adobe, air, flash, flex, open web, rants | 19 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 »
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 »
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 »
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
I'll start my exploration of the future of web browser technology by discussing some key trends that will come to the fore in 2008. The first is the addition of local storage capabilities to web browsers. This is an area that kicked into high gear last year with Mozilla's work ...
Tags: adobe, air, gears, google, iphone, mozilla, offline, sqlite, trends, webkit | 7 Comments »