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 »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
A post by my Prism partner in crime Mark Finkle sent me spiraling back in time along an interlocking blogathon of attempts to nail down the term Rich Internet Application. Intense speed-reading of so many mammoth posts can scar the psyche, so let me paraphrase them and save you the ...
Tags: adobe, ajax, flash, flex, microsoft, prism, ria, silverlight, standards | 3 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 »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
In response to widespread outrage at their decision to make the Internet Explorer 8 handle web pages by default in the same broken way as IE7, Microsoft has now announced that they have seen the light:
Our initial thinking for IE8 involved showing pages requesting “Standards” mode in an IE7’s “Standards” ...
Tags: ie, microsoft, standards | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie continues to promote and defend his company's legal action against Microsoft for anti-competitive practices with a guest editorial in The Register. One thing seems incontrovertible: Microsoft should not be allowed to tie Internet Explorer to Windows and strong-arm hardware manufacturers into refusing bundling deals with ...
Tags: firefox, ie, microsoft, opera, rants, standards | 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 | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Most people seem to labor under the misconception that web standardization is a well-regimented, orderly process with a clear set of rules. In particular, the uninitiated believe that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the anointed standards body for the web. Vendors get together, agree on some new markup ...
Tags: acid2, ie, microsoft, rants, standards, w3c, whatwg | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Uberpulse has posted a interview at CES with David Rosen, a developer at Opera Software. The interview is entitled "Opera Browser Coming To The iPhone", but the first 99% of the video have nothing to do with the iPhone, proving yet again that like sex, the iPhone sells. David isn't ...
Tags: iphone, mobile, opera, standards, video, widgets | 1 Comment »