Two giant video web sites are now running HTML5 video betas. This means that you can use their sites without having Flash active. Vimeo’s setup is especially impressive in that it very closely mimics the Flash experience.
If you don’t know what HTML5 video is, its an HTML video tag that will play video [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Chrome'
The HTML5 video mess. See it today!
January 22nd, 2010 · View Comments · Web
Tags:Chrome·Codec·Firefox·H.264·HTML5·Internet Explorer·Ogg Theora·Safari·video tag·Vimeo·YouTube
IE hating has spread to government
January 19th, 2010 · View Comments · Web
There was news a few days back that Germany is now recommending that NO ONE use Internet Explorer anymore and that EVERYONE should switch to other browsers for security reasons. This was in response to the Chinese government hackers using IE flaws to hack into Google.
Now France is recommending the same thing.
Microsoft has protested, [...]
Tags:Chrome·Firefox·IE·JavaScript·Opera·Safari·Sandbox·Security Model
Make IE run 10 times faster
September 24th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web
Some initial performance tests are in and Google’s Chrome Frame plugin is posting benchmarks 10 times the speed of IE 8 rendering.
I’m already seeing a wave of announcements from Web 2.0 sites that they’re going to support the Chrome Frame plug-in. Many of them had written IE 6/7 off and either didn’t bother trying [...]
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Cut Their Heart Out and Replace It
September 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Web
Google announced Google Chrome Frame. A plug-in for Internet Explorer that completely replaces the IE renderer and JavaScript engine (IE 6, 7 and 8). So everything you see in the browser window is rendered by Chrome. Google plans to puts links to the plug-in on their web apps when an IE user without the plug-in [...]
Which browser is fastest?
June 26th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web
Depends on how you test fastest. Microsoft claims IE is the fastest browser. Everyone else, and I do mean EVERYONE else says it’s the slowest. So how do people test and how do they get the results they spout off?
Here’s the latest – http://www.codexon.com/posts/a-real-benchmark-real-websites-with-chrome-firefox-opera-safari-ie
This test is about rendering time. It doesn’t emphasize JavaScript, it shows [...]
Beyond Flash
January 8th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web
Web standards guys hate Flash. They want it to die. They’ve always wanted it to die. But Flash can do graphical things that have been either impossible to do with DHTML or could only be done poorly. Microsoft hates Flash too. That’s why they’ve built Silverlight. But for web standards guys, that’s just another non-standard [...]
JavaScript App Server Anyone?
September 19th, 2008 · View Comments · JavaScript
Round #4374 of the JavaScript performance wars has just been completed and the winner this round is SquirrelFish Extreme. For those who aren’t “in the know”, here’s a quick recap.
Safari, Apple’s browser, is based on WebKit, the open source project headed by, yes, Apple. The WebKit team is rewriting their JavaScript engine and has created [...]
