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 | 15 Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
Apple has been causing a stir with its heavy-handed tactics for pushing Safari onto Windows users. Those who have iTunes, whether or not they have ever installed Safari, are apparently getting an automatic update dialog proposing to "upgrade" to the latest versions of both products. Reactions range from that of ...
Tags: apple, google, money, mozilla, ria, safari, webkit | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
All the communication around Google Gears seems to center on its role in adding offline storage capabilities to the browser. In reality, Google's vision for the product goes far beyond this. On his personal blog, Gears developer Dion Almaer spills the beans on the sprawling array of services they are ...
Tags: gears, google, ssb, standards, whatwg | 3 Comments »
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Is the television next in line for a big technology-driven overhaul as the transformation of mobile phones into miniature computers continues apace? A panoply of set-top boxes are vying to serve as the brains of the humble boob tube, from PVRs (TiVo and company) through game consoles (XBox, Playstation, Wii) ...
Tags: apple tv, google, iphone, media center, opera, playstation, pvr, slingbox, tivo, trends, tv, wii, xbox | No 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 »