OK, this is the post that contains everything that everyone on the inside of the browser market knows, but doesn’t say out loud. It’s time for someone to expose the emperor. It’s a shame that the main victim here turns out to be Apple, given that the king of these tactics is Google, [...]
Old news: There’s an Adobe and Apple pissing match going on, wherein an Apple spokesperson says this:
“Someone has it backwards–it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary,” said spokeswoman Trudy Muller in a statement.
The snarky part [...]
Since Stuart landed the Qt port into mozilla-central the other day and Ryan Paul wrote an article on Qt and Mozilla I thought it might be worth it to add some context to that work.
Ryan’s article contains this quote from Nokia developer Oleg Romaxa:
“Nokia will use the best browser for the job,” he said. “Currently, [...]
John Lilly pointed people at a really good article in the New York Times by John Markoff about the Olympics as a hook to get Silverlight onto people’s computers. It’s a good overview and is worth reading.
The article covers well tread ground: People are worried that Microsoft will leverage its market power to create [...]
Firefox 3 goes on a diet, eats less memory than IE and Opera
Ryan Paul talks about what a big changes we’ve made since Firefox 2 in our memory handling and also compares against other browsers as well. Nice to see this getting some press.
Mozilla speeds up Firefox: Users say it’s twice as fast as [...]
Robert O’Callahan points out that there’s an article with quotes from Chris Double in it about Mozilla and Opera supporting video for the web.
Chris put up new video-enabled builds to test with about 4 days ago. Here’s a screenshot of it running on my Fedora 8 machine:
Back in August Chris also made a post [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available for download. Packed with new features, but carefully avoiding overwhelming users with complexity, this is a huge release for us and the Mozilla community. Awesomebar, new mac theme (as an add-on), Places and one click bookmarking, progress on a new Linux theme, improved SSL identity reporting, improved [...]
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David Pogue has a wonderful little review of the iPhone. He’s an acquired taste, I think, but fits my sense of humor very well: silly, good points, and lots of over the top audience participation. I loved the punchline: But, uhh, is there an Apple logo? Great little dig [...]