Category Archives: Apple

intellectual honesty and html5

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 … Continue reading

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open vs. standard

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Adobe, Apple, Video, Web Standards | 3 Comments

building the complete browser for everyone everywhere

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, GNOME, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, Qt, WebKit | 16 Comments

competing for an open (generative) web

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, Design, Firefox, Freedom, Google, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 15 Comments

huge list of random firefox links

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, Design, Firefox, Freedom, GNOME, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, WebKit | 3 Comments

video for the web

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, GNOME, Mozilla, Video | 14 Comments

Firefox 3 beta 1

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, GNOME, Mozilla | 7 Comments

great iphone review from david pogue

[ Via Leon. ] 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 … Continue reading

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