Monday, May 24th, 2010
Responding to Google's announcement last week of a Chrome Web Store, Jay Sullivan asks on the Mozilla Blog for ideas about an alternative Open Web App Store. This is something that I've been thinking about and discussing with Mark Finkle for a couple of years now in the context of ...
Tags: chrome, google, html5, mozilla, open web, prism | 11 Comments »
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Web technology's pace of evolution is vexingly slow, the result of the wide range of browsers (new and legacy) that must support any innovation in order for it to take hold. Even back in the good old days (basically any time before 2005), when only the Netscape lineage of browsers ...
Tags: chrome, google, standards | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Google Chrome has achieved striking success considering that it has yet to celebrate its first birthday. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch claims that the browser now has 30 million users (citing Google as a source). [Update: The Google OS post mentions this in the second sentence so I'm not sure why ...
Tags: chrome, firefox, google, mozilla, web os | 20 Comments »
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
I was chatting recently with the founder of a high-profile startup that is making strategic use of Mozilla technology. "People keep telling me that WebKit is the future," he complained. "Have we made the wrong choice?"
I did my best to reassure him of course, providing arguments that support their choice ...
Tags: apple, chrome, firefox, flock, google, mozilla, platform, webkit | 28 Comments »
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 »
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Yep, it's Chrome week and I'm just going to blather on about it through Friday. Today we have a piece by the one-and-only Robert X. Cringely speculating on why Google decided to make Chrome in the first place. (Actually the post is four days old, but I'm perennially behind in ...
Tags: chrome, cringely, google, ie, microsoft | 14 Comments »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
There's much to like about Ted Dziuba's frothy rant in the Register, in which he takes the media to task for overhyping Google's new Chrome browser. I wish I'd coined the brilliant term "Googasm". He says "fuck" a lot, which makes a funny piece even funnier, at least for those ...
Tags: chrome, google, rants, register, windows | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
As I mentioned last week, Google Chrome is a no-brainer for Browser of the Week, and I've gone ahead and installed it, configuring it as my default browser. The one hitch is that it only runs on Windows, and I am a Mac-only shop. I do have Parallels running on ...
Tags: botw, chrome, google | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
September is here, and I'm slipping out of a mild off-season hibernation after a relatively laidback summer ("relative" being the operative word when you're coming off ten years of stressful startup life). In particular, this blog has been sorely neglected. I'm planning to ramp things up once again, and what ...
Tags: chrome, firefox, google, ie, javascript, mozilla, ssb | 7 Comments »
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I've been obsessing recently with configuring my home office software environment just so. Since I went all Apple, all the time, I'm able to benefit from a lot of goodies that are built into OS X (notably iTunes). And developing on Mozilla means that I can do pretty much everything ...
Tags: docs, gears, google, rants | 16 Comments »