Fragmentation
Building web apps is not getting easier. The fragmentation of operating systems and browsers is getting worse, not better.
Here’s a chart of the past thirty days of activity at AVC.com:
Fake: A Programmable Browser for OS X
Does the Mac community need another Web browser? Probably not if we’re talking conventional browsers, as there’s a luxury of choices already available: Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and a gaggle of others.
Awesome Screenshot Safari Extension
Awesome Screenshot is light-weight, straightforward, and very useful. You use it to take a screenshot of a site’s entire page, or just what you see in your browser window. And you can draw on your screenshot, add notes, crop it down, save it, share it, and more.
Mobile Browser Cache Limits: Android, iOS, and webOS
In early 2008, Wayne Shea and Tenni Theurer wrote a YUI Blog post on iPhone Cacheability in which they shared the results of research into various characteristics and limitations of Mobile Safari’s cache in iPhone OS 1.x. Among other things, they found that individual components larger than 25KB were not cached, and that there was a maximum total cache size of between 475KB and 500KB.
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Home – testswarm – GitHub
TestSwarm provides distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript. It was initially created by John Resig as a tool to support the jQuery project and has since moved to become an official Mozilla Labs project.
Performance Research, Part 2: Browser Cache Usage – Exposed!
This is the second in a series of articles describing experiments conducted to learn more about optimizing web page performance. You may be wondering why you’re reading a performance article on the YUI Blog. It turns out that most of web page performance is affected by front-end engineering, that is, the user interface design and development.
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Why I use Safari for Development
For web developers, there’s an obvious choice of which browser to use for developing web applications. Firefox it is, right? Wrong.
Standards, schmandards
Let’s compare the two browsers, more specifically Safari 4 vs. Firefox 3.5. Both browsers pass the Acid2 test with flying colors, but when it comes to Acid3, Firefox only reaches 93% compliance (up from 71% in Firefox 3.0). Safari? 100%.
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
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