Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Opera Mini 4.1, with a number of bug fixes and tweaks, has been released.
TechCrunch with an article on Mozilla's "stealth data project", which aims to collect statistics on web usage from Firefox's 170 million strong user base. Mozilla CEO John Lilly provides some clarification.
Mozilla joins the LiMo Foundation, which develops ...
Tags: adobe, android, bits and bobs, flash, limo, mozilla, opera | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Commercial web applications must overcome a vexing business dilemma: how to make money in the face of so much free competition. This is a symptom of the VC-fueled internet economy that has prevailed since the dot com days. Venture capital firms provide companies with money based on some woolly half-baked ...
Tags: apple, firefox, flock, microsoft, money, mozilla, opera, trends | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Update: I got a couple of comments very quickly from Mozilla people complaining that this post is rehashing old news and is needlessly inflammatory. I admit that I did hesitate to address this topic since the keynote in question was so long ago, but I felt like the issue was ...
Tags: apple, firefox, market, mozilla, safari | 10 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 »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Biologists talk about a phenomenon called the evolutionary arms race. Cheetahs, for example, only survived if they were fast enough to catch the slowest gazelles. Gazelles, on the other hand, only lived to produce offspring if they could outrun the fastest predators. These are powerful evolutionary forces, and as a ...
Tags: firefox, ie, mozilla, performance, safari, tamarin, webkit | 10 Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
The subject of the Mozilla platform ("Gecko") and its relevance beyond serving as the foundation of Firefox has been a subject of great debate for quite some time. The topic flared up again this weekend on one of Mozilla's developer newsgroups. The impetus appears to have been a relatively obscure ...
Tags: firefox, mozilla, platform | 23 Comments »
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Vladimir Vukićević of Mozilla made waves yesterday with the discovery that Apple's Webkit (the engine that powers the Safari browser) uses undocumented OS X features that are not available to other browsers running on the Macintosh. This is unlikely to point to a simmering conspiracy on the part of Apple, ...
Tags: apple, browser market, firefox, mozilla, webkit | 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 »
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Read/WriteTalk, the podcast arm of popular blog Read/WriteWeb, has a wide-ranging audio interview with newly minted Mozilla CEO John Lilly. The first and most interesting topic is the nature of Mozilla as a commercially funded non-profit and the influence it is likely to have on other organizations:
John Lilly: A lot ...
Tags: firefox, money, mozilla, podcast, weave | 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 »