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 »
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 »
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 »