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Another step will be taken by browsers as application platform, for replacing native applications on mobiles. This through a notification system available in the browser, Mozilla is developping. Users must register at the sites to receive notifications, they will be sent without requiring them to visit the site. For a site of messaging for example, the user will be notified that a message has come in its email box, which is useful if you have several mailboxes. It can also be directly alerted to the expiration of a domain name, even if hi do not think to open the corresponding email box (or it has disappeared). Notification API. February 3, 2012.
The new version offers tools for the development and in particular the design, to change the look of a page directly from the browser. This is the WYSIGYG principle with the browser as a development tool. The JavaScript slate allows to edit the code, run it and see the results with Inspectors. In addition to development aid, version 10 improves support to CSS3 and WebGL and simplifies the use of extensions. Eclipse Orion. Online code editor which is also integrated with Firefox. Full screen demo. With the full screen API, the video tag has now this feature that was missing in HTML 5. In fact it works with any HTML tag ... February 1, 2012.
Menus are they disappearing from user interfaces? A step was taken in this direction by the Head-Up Display (HUD) concept from Ubuntu in Unity. Menus are removed and replaced by a list that interprets the intentions of the user and provides useful commands in context. The interface becomes "intent-drived," defined by the supposed intention of the user. But the menus have the advantage of showing the options available to the novice user. Advantage that becomes a disadvantage when one is familiar with the software. One the contrary, the Unity system offers a control box with auto-completion and displays the options most often used in context. In fact HUD is able to see at a given moment in the work, all the commands that you can pass, and displays them in the manner of the Google search engine. This ability of suggestion is a way to explore all possible options with a small footprint on the desktop, which is suitable for mobiles ... but they did not have a keyboard! The developer must implement the system to its app and also provide a kind of map to indicate its functions. This system however opens another perspective, the possibility of replacing the keyboard by voice. When an order is given, the system searches for the nearest control and allows to refine the vocal order. With a little learning - greatly facilitated by this process - controlling software will become a game Video. January 25, 2012.
Firefox is closer to Chrome and on two levels. The prefix indicating the protocol disappears from the URL bar, an idea of the Google browser. And in terms of performance, too, the gap is narrowing, thanks to type inference, the JavaScript compiler greatly increases the speed which jumped to 30% at least. The update to the new version is automatic when the "About" window is opened... December 21, 2011.
To spare the visitors the need to enter a login and password, Mozilla provides the authentication service BrowserID. This is a JavaScript code to be included in the registration page (which is no longer necessary) or authentication page. The Mozilla's server will do the rest ... The visitor must verify the email it gives only one time, after which it will be recognized at all sites supporting BrowserID. This works on all browsers. BrowserID competes with Google's OpenID which has a different process. But many visitors would prefer to authenticate through Facebook or Twitter to use their services. BrowserID on Github. Browserid.org, the server. One can avoid access to the server using its own code verification. Decembre 16, 2011.
Adobe believes that the future of graphics in the browser is through Canvas and WebGL and decides to give up development of Flash in different browsers running on mobiles. But Flash is not totally obsolete, it remains for Adobe a development platform for the future of native applications, and therefore the firm will continue to work on Adobe Air, the programming tool and the Flash Player to the local computer (should we rejoice?). It also will develop tools for programming in HTML 5. November 9, 2011.
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