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By tim, on April 4th, 2013 Follow tim on TwitterYesterday Google announced that it is forking WebKit to create Blink, a new rendering engine to be used in its Chrome browser:
Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium projects. This has slowed down
…continue reading Google forks WebKit into Blink: what are the implications?
By tim, on September 27th, 2012 Follow tim on TwitterAdobe has published a mission statement which is worth a read if only to demonstrate how far the company has moved away from Flash, once positioned at the heart of its ecosystem – remember the Flash Platform?
The mission statement essentially declares the web as the new heart of Adobe’s platform and it is working
…continue reading Adobe using Google Chromium Embedded Framework for Edge tools
By tim, on July 20th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterWhat next for Mozilla? Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe, posts about some of the issues facing the open source browser project and Foundation. His list is not meant to be a list of problems for Mozilla exactly, but it does read a bit like that, especially the third point:
Google marketing budgets for Chrome
…continue reading Mozilla CEO fearful of closed mobile platforms. So what next for Mozilla and Firefox?
By tim, on July 8th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI have been writing a Facebook application hosted on Microsoft Azure. I hit a problem where my application worked fine on the local development fabric, but failed when deployed to Azure. The application was not actually crashing; it just did not work as expected. Specifically, either the Facebook authentication or the ASP.NET Forms Authentication was
…continue reading Hands on debugging an Azure application – what to do when it works locally but not in the cloud
By tim, on May 12th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterYesterday Google announced the availability of the first commercial Chromebook, a Linux computer running the Chrome browser and not much else. There are machines from Acer and Samsung which are traditional laptop/netbook clamshell designs, with an Intel Atom dual core processor, 16GB solid state storage, and a 12.1” screen. Price will be a bit less
…continue reading Chromebook: web applications put to the test, and by the way no Java
By tim, on March 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterJust one week after the final release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9, and here comes another major browser, Mozilla Firefox 4.
What’s new in Firefox? Performance, for one thing. There is a new JavaScript engine called JägerMonkey which is more effective than the old TraceMonkey – though TraceMonkey is still there – and there is
…continue reading Browser wars heat up as Firefox 4 arrives
By tim, on March 10th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterPatrick Copeland, Google Director of Engineering, gave the keynote at QCon London this morning. His theme was innovation: how it works at Google and elsewhere.
I was expecting some background on Google’s famous 20% time, where employees spent up to one day a week on something not in their job description, but I don’t
…continue reading Google on innovation – or should that be copying?
By tim, on January 11th, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterGoogle has announced that it will remove support for the H.264 video codec in its Chrome browser:
…we are changing Chrome’s HTML5 <video> support to make it consistent with the codecs already supported by the open Chromium project. Specifically, we are supporting the WebM (VP8) and Theora video codecs, and will consider adding support for
…continue reading Google flexes its Chrome browser muscles, removes support for H.264 video – but what about Adobe Flash?
By tim, on January 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on TwitterI noticed an old post here getting a lot of hits: My first Google Chrome Web Application. Unfortunately it was based on an early version of Chrome’s app format. Here is an update.
My web application in this example is this blog. I created a manifest in Notepad:
Next, using my artistic skills, I
…continue reading Creating a Web Application for the Google Chrome Web Store
By tim, on December 31st, 2010 Follow tim on TwitterThis was an amazing year for tech. Here are some of the things that struck me as significant.
Sun Java became Oracle Java
Oracle acquired Sun and set about imposing its authority on Java. Java is still Java, but Oracle lacks Sun’s commitment to open source and community – though even in Sun days there
…continue reading Ten big tech trends from 2010
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