Microsoft is joining the W3C SVG Working Group. Presumably that means there’s some interest in SVG for IE or Silverlight or both. I wonder what led to the change of heart.
I pretty much wrote off any chance of SVG being mainstream in 2005 when Adobe bought Macromedia. Adobe was previously somewhat of [...]
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Microsoft Joins W3C SVG Working Group
Adventures With document.documentElement.firstChild
Here’s an interesting DOM test-case I ran across inadvertently yesterday.
For the purpose of this post assume the following markup:
< !DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<!– i broke the dom –>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Testcase</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Something</p>
</body>
</html>
If I use document.documentElement.firstChild I don’t get consistent behavior. In Firefox and IE I get the <head/> element, which is what I [...]
Google Chrome OS
The big news over the past 24 hours is the announcement of Google Chrome OS. Effectively Google Chrome OS is a stripped down Linux Kernel with just enough to boot Chrome/WebKit as it’s main UI. The exact UI paradigm hasn’t been reveled as of yet. Google claims:
Speed, simplicity and security are the [...]
Chromium’s WebKit Fork Is No More
This is very cool news for both WebKit sand Chromium. Chromium will no longer use a forked version of WebKit. This will mean more contributions directly to WebKit and a more current Chromium.
I wish all browser vendors could agree and sync engines a bit more so that Safari/Chrome would ship the same version [...]
Is IE8 Trident’s Last Stand?
Randall C. Kennedy at InfoWorld wrote:
IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser. At least, that’s what I’m hearing through the grapevine. It seems that Microsoft is preparing to throw in the towel on its Internet Explorer engine once and for all.
There were rumors earlier this year that the IE team was [...]
3rd Party Web Browsers For iPhone
There’s some buzz around the web regarding 3rd party web browsers for the iPhone now appearing in the App Store. This really isn’t as good as it sounds. In fact, it’s misleading. From what I can tell they are all using WebKit (Safari) API’s. UIWebView to be specific. These are [...]
Palm Pre Thoughts
The big news today seems to be the new Palm Pre. It’s a rather beautiful device, though I’m not sure it will save Palm.
Developer API – Palm choose to make it literally a “WebOS” (that’s what they call it). Applications are written using HTML5, CSS, JS (via WebKit) and there are API’s to [...]
Microsoft Cutting Back On IE?
Asa pointed out an interesting CNBC piece regarding cutbacks in what looks like contractors on the IE team:
One of the units already seeing cutbacks is Microsoft’s sagging browser business. A report in the Seattle Times says 180 contract workers were told last month that their services would not be renewed. Just yesterday, researcher Net Applications [...]
We May Look At That
The big story over the past 24 hours is Steve Ballmer’s statements regarding WebKit:
“Open source is interesting,” he said. “Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8.”
Initial Thoughts On Google Chrome
I figured I’d blog my initial thoughts on Google chrome. Rather than a hard to read essay, I figured bullet points are easier to read/scan, so that’s what I’ll do.
Announcement
Another One Bites the Dust – The classic Queen song was played both before and after the presentation. I can’t help to think this [...]
