Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Let's call this an "in case you missed it" edition of Browser Bits and Bobs, since I've been disgustingly busy and haven't posted anything in far too long. But for those who have been preoccupied by events outside the tech sector (MLB postseason, impending financial armageddon, talking chihuahuas, etc.): this ...
Tags: ajaxian, chrome, chromium, flash, fluid, google, html5, mozilla, skyfire | 6 Comments »
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 | 3 Comments »