Christopher Blizzard

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Category: Google

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 out to be Apple, given that the king of these tactics is Google, [...]

my thoughts on google’s 3d experiment

Google has announced the availability of a plugin that implements 3D technology and makes it available over the web. You can read about the announcement in in the Google Code Blog and in an excellent article by Ryan Paul in Ars Technica.
Ryan points out that there are significant differences between what Google has built [...]

performance, chrome, mozilla and tracemonkey

So, V8. Well-hyped. It’s got a cool logo. And many claims are being made about its performance. But it is not the only kid on the block. As we blogged about a couple of weeks ago, Mozilla has been investing over the last couple of months in a super-fast JS [...]

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 well tread ground: People are worried that Microsoft will leverage its market power to create [...]

some random mozilla-related links for your enjoyment

Ari Jaaksi talks about Linux on Phones and what’s going on at Nokia.

He mentions that he’s working with us at Mozilla – very true. And good fodder for another post on another day.

He also touches on an important topic for me, which is the difference between between being “open” and being “good.” Being [...]