Ajax and XUL

Firefox 4 - Beta 4

Nouvelle version de test pour le navigateur avec deux fonctionnalités ajoutées: Panorama pour une meilleur visualisation et gestion des onglets, avec un balise vidéo complétée de la propriété "buffered", pour voir l'état du chargement.
Firefox 4.
Démonstration de Panorama en vidéo.
25 août 2010.

Universal Validator: Unicorn

The W3C has replaced three tools to validate by one: Unicorn. It tests both compliance with the standard of HTML and CSS code for the page is submitted.
In addition, if a link to an RSS feed is present, it also verifies the compliance of the RSS file.
The W3C expects developers to add other test modules, through its development space.
Unicorn validator.
28 July 2010.

Dojo 1.5 and Claro

Dojo is an Ajax framework and includes a toolkit with many widgets to build an online application.
Dojo Toolkit.
Demonstration of a GUI. With the Claro theme.
July 24, 2010.

Truetype now free

The vector format of fonts created by Apple after 20 years fell into the public domain. It was used by Microsoft that had the license, but Linux should use a compatible format for Freetype.
July 20, 2010.

HTML 5 as a user interface of operating system

Jolicloud is a free OS for netbooks and other devices, designed primarily to run Web applications.
He uses Debian Linux for the file system and HTML 5 for the user interface with touch-screen recognition. It can operate in conjunction with Windows, like any Linux system.
Unlike ChromeOS, the system can run native applications directly.
What one finds on a computer screen, taskbar, icons, windows, all this is designed in HTML 5. It is thus a competitor to XUL and other interface languages such as XAML and JavaFX.
Jolicloud.
July 17, 2010.

Web Notification: a standard for "push" in Web apps

Push is the fact to show the information in an application when it becomes available. For example when a user sends an email, the recipient is directly informed. While it is currently visiting his voicemail, email appears otherwise a message may appear in a window or in the status bar.
W3C has launched a new standard for this type of notification.
Web Notification. The draft of the standard being defined.
July 1, 2010.

Firefox 4.0 beta

A trial version of Firefox can be downloaded by users to see what will be the next version of the browser.
Not as fast as the latest versions of competitor browsers, it does offer a superior hardware acceleration for videos.
The alpha version was numbered 3.7.
Firefox 4 in depth.
June 29, 2010.

Firefox 3.6.4 and Flash separated

With this new version you can update from the menu ? and "Search for updates", Flash works in a separate process and the videos and animations can be stopped without effect on the browser and the current session. This makes the browser more stable and secure.
It is the same for Java, Quicktime, Silverlight and other plugins.
June 23, 2010.

Flock leaves Firefox for Chromium

The social browser which was based on Firefox code has changed its original code, the latest version in beta at the moment is based on Chromium and Webkit like Google's Chrome. This makes it lighter and faster.
Presentation of Flock.
Download.
May 17, 2010.

Safari 5 enemy of webmasters

After Chrome, Safari also allows to have extensions thanks to the Extension Builder. The new release is also thanks to Nitro, the JavaScript compiler, 30% faster. Apple claims that this makes it two times faster than Firefox 3.6.
It offers better support for HTML 5 features and such as Firefox and IE8, development tools for webmasters.
The new HTML 5 features: Geolocation, sections, drag and drop, form validation, WebSocket, EventSource, Ajax history.
The Reader is an original function that displays articles in one page when the webmaster, it is fashionable for now, split them into several pages. But it removes ads too, a gift from Apple to Google and its Adsense service. It does not work on pages without a large block of text. According to my experiments, there are numerous cases where it does not work and webmasters have now the challenge to build pages that defeat it to save revenues!
For Windows and Mac.
Download.
July 7, 2010.

WebM to replace H.264

Google, Mozilla and Opera join forces in a project to provide a free and open alternative to the H.264 video codec.
It was defended by Apple and Microsoft, is a proprietary format in the U.S., subject to high fee, which is why Mozilla has refused to integrate it in Firefox.
Since Google acquired the VP8 codec, superior to H.264, we wondered if it would become free and so to replace H.264, including for the <video> tag in HTML 5. This is done, as confirmed by the project's source code.
You can already watch videos on Youtube with the right parameter: webm=1, example:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trailers&aq=f&webm=1

Webm will be supported by future version of Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Adobe just announced it will be supported by the Flash player too and Microsoft that it will be supported by Internet Explorer 9.
The webM project.
May 19, 2010.

Making the W3C readable

"So, I've been trying to read specs more than ever. Not only is the language used some form of incomprehensible bullshit, but the readability to these pages is abysmal."

Not very happy with the reading of these specs, Ben Schwarz and Anthony Kolber made a script to beautify the documents without having to modify the content by hand.
The script.
Discussion on the W3C forum. (Applying design to W3C specs).
May 19, 2010.