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 »
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Michael Calore of Wired delved more deeply into the Opera video that I mentioned yesterday. In particular, he took the logical step of contacting Opera PR to ask about David Rosen's off-the-cuff assertion that they are planning an iPhone port. Opera communications honcho Michelle Valdivia Lien's response is a PR ...
Tags: android, apple, browser wars, iphone, microsoft, mobile, mozilla, opera, webkit | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
I first met John Lilly in late 2005 when I stopped by the Mozilla offices in Mountain View for an informal "getting to know you" meeting. His title at the time was Vice President of Business Development. My next interaction with John was in February 2007, by which time he ...
Tags: money, mozilla | 1 Comment »
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 »