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 »
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 »
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 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 »