HTML5 Web Browsers:Benchmarks and Market Share
HTML5 is rapidly coming of age as a)the major browser vendors move to implement more of HTML5 and b)Web developers, especially for mobiles, add more HTML5 features. So theOpenSourcery will be producing a quarterly report on the latest HTML5 Web Browser performance and market share numbers. Also commentary on Web Development related to the browsers […]
Google Plus is ++
Dave Winer is yawning at Google Plus, the new social sharing service offering from Mountain View[what happens to Google’s Orkut??]. Dave says it is just a personal peeve between Google top brass and Facebook top brass. Ye Editor has moved from MySpace to Flickr to Fotki to Facebook never quite satisfied among existing Web/Social Sharing […]
Switching to Chrome Browser from Firefox
The strip above tells a good part of the reason this Web Developer is switching. First important note, ye Editor barely bothers to use any Firefox or Chrome extensions/plugins nor Firefox themes – so loyalty is not effected by these important factors in favor of Firefox. But during any day there is a gravitational pull […]
Steve Jobs Post-PC Era:The Computing Divides
Steve Jobs in his announcement of the Apple iPad 2 emphasized that client computing has reached a Post-PC era. In fact, Jobs cited the complete product line of Apple iDevices as leading the way into the new Post-PC era of computing . Nowhere has this Computing Divide of the Post-PC Era been made more apparent than in a […]
Technical Story: Best Chart of US Federal Budget
The NYTimes has done it again- produced the best online graphic of the US Budget available anywhere. And the Times did it one day after the release of the budget proposal by the White House. Even more interesting is how they did it. This graphic tells the story of the budget in 6 ways [click on […]
Mobile Tablet Race Update for iPad2
2010 was supposed to be the Year of the Tablet. 2011 will truly be the year of the tablet as a)Apple and Steve Jobs have put their imprimatur on tablets with the iPad and its 15million unit sales; b)there is a dirty dozen IT players that don’t want to be iPhone-ed out of the market; […]
The Beastly Browser Market
Depending on who is doing the counting Microsoft’s IE Browser is starting to drop below 50% market share for all its versions – IE9, IE8, IE7, IE6 and IE5. This has been long overdue since IE has been one of the worst browsers for the past 8++ years. Only now does IE9 comes close to […]
HTML5 Up and Running
This review is doing double duty. It evaluates the book HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim from the O’Reilly Press while also doing review of the status of the HTML5 standard itself. Keep an Open Eye acknowledges that Mark’s HTML5 : Up and Running and also Diving into HTML5 have been invaluable resources for […]
Client Software Development – 3 Added Degrees of Complexity
There is no doubt that the classic Computing World is fragmenting. No more the Wintel monopoly as it is losing its 90% market share dominance of the personal computing client scene to upstart Apple iDevices, Android smartphones plus a wave of RIM,Dell, Samsung, Archos and other tablets. The PC, even in laptop form, is no […]
PC Market Fragmentation
The PC market is seeing a profound split or forking in the road on how Computing is served to the public. It is heavy-creative versus mobile-utility usage – PCs vs Tablets. Marketwatch catches this trend and its implications for the broad PC markets. The result should see in the next 2-3 years a profound drop […]
IE9: Such a Disappointment
IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE9, what a disappointment! It would not be so bad if Microsoft had managed expectations better. But the ACID3 scores going from 55% to 95%. And all the accelerated graphics routines. And the promise of Canvas, SVG, and HTML5 support. Shades of Windows 3.1 days when the Redmond boys won on glitz over substance[a foreshadowing […]
HTML5: Implementation Status – Summer 2010
As one peers more closely at HTML5 standards and developments, three conclusions come to the forefront: 1)The revisions in HTML5 are broad and deep – Canvas, SVG, CSS3 and multi-touch gestures will change fundamentally how the Web is visualized, displayed and interacted with . The <audio> and <video> tags plus the Apple vs Adobe tussle will […]
HTML5: Web SQL Database
SQLite is one of the most popular databases that you may not know about. It is used in every Firefox, Skype, McAfee, and Solaris instance. It is also used on Apple Mac computers and iPhones. Adobe, Google and Mozilla use SQLite for Web related applications. Google’s local data storage engine, Google Gears, uses SQLite. But […]
Exploring HTML5: Aside, Header, Footer, Section Tags
Following Steve Jobs hints, Keep an Open Eye has invested a lot more time in HTML5. Here is a curious discovery derived from sessions at W3schools and Quackit [try them you will like them]: There is an explosion of what could be construed as structural tags in HTML5 – <article>, <aside>, <header>, <footer>, and others. […]
Google Outages: Cloud Computing Implications
For the past half year at least, Google Search and often all of Google services have been “out” – just not available while other search engine and Web services such as Yahoo, Bing, Ask, Yahoo Mail and others are up and running. This has implications for Cloud Computing adoption. It also has to be of […]
HTML 5 DevTools: Sencha Touch
EXTjs is now Sencha -and I am not sure the new moniker is much ahead of the old name. But EXT.js uhhhh.. Sencha really knows how to turn out good JavaScript code. If you are into Java web development, EXT.GWT is very strong, gets Java to JavaScript and is well worth the look. On the […]
Apple vs Adobe: Vetting Steve Jobs Flash Assertions
Apple and CEO Steve Jobs have at various time in the past 6 months complained about Adobe Flash performance on both OS4 iDevices [iPhone and iPad] and Mac OS X. This will post will vet those remarks with publicly available benchmarks and other reports. They will be confined to Mac OS X since results of […]
The IE Boast
This advertisement that is appearing all over the Web is a dual edged sword. On one hand it is trying to encourage users to upgrade from IE7 and IE6 [the latter is particularly backward in features and more security-error prone]. But on the other hand the ad invites jaunty humor like “So far … and […]
Whats in Firefox 4
Firefox 4: fast, powerful and empowering View more presentations from Mike Beltzner. The people at Mozilla who are responsible for Firefox deserve admiration. They were the first organization to take on the IE monopoly effectively in the early 2000 time frame by targeting better standards adherence and strong JavaScript support. True, Opera had been battling […]
Best Open CMS: WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
In a previous post, 10 reasons were given for doing your website development in a CMS/Blog. And the most important reasons were that the best blogs are Open Source, free, secure, fast and very popular. The latter point is notable because that means the chance of finding developer talent that knows how to customize an […]
jQuery and CSS Collisions in WordPress
Your browser does not support iframes. The following jQuery powered widget, jCarouselLite, is an example of the dangers of jQuery and CSS collisions in WordPress [this is WordPress version 2.9.2 but the same is true of the new 3.0.1 beta]. I simply have not been able to get the code to work without resorting to […]
Whither E4X ?
E4X is an extension of ECMAScript that makes XML processing a snap in JavaScript. Read about all the details at W3CSchools or Yahoo or WikiPedia and see what IBM developers , Adobe and others have to say about E4x and its effectiveness. Despite the near universal acclaim, currently E4X is only supported in the Firefox […]
Blogs for Website Design in General
More often than not I am recommending to clients that they use blogs rather then custom designed websites for their new or even existing Web projects. Here is my Top Ten Reasons for using or switching to a blog or CMS software for developing large business to small organization websites. 1)Much blog software is very, […]
EXTjs Designer Review
In a previous post on Web Design IDEs, mention was made of the just released EXTjs Designer which allows users to design an RIA JavaScript based interface using the EXTjs Framework. A review was promised – and so: For $219 one can now buy the Designer and develop EXTjs interfaces more rapidly than ever. I […]
WordCamp Toronto: Day2
WordCamp was very informative and so the second day gets its own posting. Plugins are the topic this morning. TrailMeme Plugin allows creating a summary of posts as a Map or Trail to be followed. There is a website called TrailMeme.com and a WordPress plugin called Trailmeme which allows users to create a trail map […]
Blogging from WordCamp Toronto 2010
Open Source CMS-Content Management Systems/Blogs like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have become so popular as basic website delivery vehicles that they are now “must-know” tools for Web Developers. Check all the Blogs at the New York Times [a WordPress MU site ] and the Web developer want ads for proof of concept. So I hope […]
Web Design IDEs
Drag and drop design of Web pages has been elusive – Borland had a product way back when with IntraBuilder which was quite good- but perhaps was too far ahead of its time. Now Adobe Dreamweaver, the leading Web Design tool sort of skirted with drag and drop design elements but never really supported it […]
Xara Web Designer 6 – A Best Value
Xara already has one of the best and fastest photo composition tools with Xara Xtreme 5 and they have just delivered a huge upgrade to their Web Designer product that elevates it to one of the best Web Design tools available. Xara Web Designer 6: 1)is the best Web-page Prototyping tool on the PC for […]
Ballmer’s Problems Three
Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft is playing serious catchup in 3 big software development tasks: 1)Windows 7 still has speed, reliability, memory usage, hardware+software compatibility issues, and ease of use/learning-to-use problems versus Windows XP – hence Windows XP stays entrenched in corporates where Microsoft cannot muscle users off Win XP like it can in the consumer market […]
Java + LAMP Hosting:Stallmanned
I just finished an all day seminar on BIRT the partially Open Source report writing package available from Actuate[the Core is open, the extended services are closed and the two packages are, according to Actuate people, moving in different directions – More on this in a later posting]. BIRT software is impressive especially with its […]
Winter Olympic Widgets & Coverage
I am surprised at the relatively few really good Winter Olympic Games widgets that are available on the various sites that are featuring Winter Olympic coverage. Here is a list of what I have found to data. wwwvancouver2010.com There are some collaborations with Facebook, but this is the only widget I could find – a […]
GigaOM on Microsoft’s Web Investments
The graph tells the essential story on Microsoft’s Web investments. The full review is here.
Microsoft Ketchup: SVG
Readers of this blog know that I have been relentless in decrying the shortfalls in Microsoft’s support of W3C and other Web Standards. Microsoft has a serious amount of Ketchup to do in the Web arena. So now Microsoft announces support for SVG – about ten years late. However, there is no timetable or list […]
Web 2.0 RAIA GUI: Better Than the Desktop?
Some people believe that Web GUI operations cannot even remotely match those available on the desktop – be that Windows 7 with its Aero goodies or Apple Snow Leopard with its refined look and often copied navigational features. I would beg to differ. Desktop GUI is playing catch up to mobile and the Web. Gestures […]
NYTimes and Mobile Connections
In a previous posting,on our media site [Bookraft.com], the NYTimes was praised for its Web 2.0 savvy; but what I neglected to mention was the many mobile phone options available from the Old Lady with all the News fit to print. So this screen shot summarizes what is available from the NYTimes is a single […]
NYTimes Gets Web 2.0 Technology; But …
Over the past two years the NYTimes has been showing an evergrowing Web 2.0 savvy. Like many of its large newspaper cohorts, the NYTimes is using such Web 2.0 fixtures as tabs, scrollers and accordions to make quick access to multiple stories on a single page. Its photo galleries use nifty Flash-enabled slideshow viewers. But […]
Mootools Motors On
Mootools is a free, accomplished, lightweight, very close to non-obtrusive JavaScript framework. Here are two recent innovations. Much better coverage of its plugins is here. And look at this Mooshell:
Bloodied Windows 7 Details
Covering Microsoft in the late 1990’s I discovered that the Redmond troops were much more forthright then the executive suite – particularly when a quality storm around their software was raging. Think of the debilitating outbreak of Windows and then IE worms of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Vista has been just such a […]
WordPress is Best Overall CMS of 2009
Okay, I will admit a bias toward WordPress because I have been using it on 5 of my own blogs and dozens of other projects. But I use Drupal, Joomla. Gallery, PHPBB and Coppermine too. No one CMS is clearly dominant – you fit each CMS strengths to the tasks at hand. Interestingly, WordPress has […]
Browser Negligence: What to Do About Microsoft
In the previous posting showing two online and live Paint programs developed by Finnish University professors, one can get an idea of which browser vendors are supporting SVG vectore graphic and HTML5’s bitmap canvas commands. These capabilities are key to Web 2.0 flourishing. Here are the results using the latest browser versions from all the […]
HTML5 , Canvas and SVG
This paper by Bruce Lawson has a lot of the goods on whats happening on HTML5. There is mucho HTML 5 appearing at the wikipedia too. These are important briefings as HTML5 rapidly emerges. This is important to all Web developments. Also, checkout the two Finnish professors’ comparison of SVG Vector Draw versus Canvas Bitmaps. […]
Chrome Frame Opportunity
I have been having an extended discussion on this blog about the role of Web writers and savvy developers in allowing Microsoft to be very abusive of Web standards. Microsoft is simply refusing to implement CSS, DOM, HTML, and JavaScript standards [many of which they pledged to do over 10 years ago] or are prolonging […]
What, Me Worry that the Web is getting Constipat….
Game portals are the talk of the town … but I was worried. Arstechnica raises and answers the question will the Internet Die due to 1)No Net Neutrality; 2)Continuing impossible grwth rates; or 3)Continued use by high traffic video, TV, and gaming websites. They said no …what? me worry? In that spirit I offer you […]
CSS:The Missing Facts
I have just been sent CSS: The Missing Manual by David McFarland at O’Reilly Press to review. So I am scouting through the manual to see how informative it is and to get first impressions. And I come across a sidebar comment – Should I Care About IE6. As readers who have visited this site […]
Google Translations II: See It Here!
I have been following the Google Translations API rather closely with remarks already in this blog. But recently Google made Translations for Web pages so easy to do it seemed worth while to try it out.The screen capture to the left can be seen in the upper right corner of this blog.Go ahead and try […]
The Old Lady Sings
Many people have written off magazines and newspaper publishers as ante-diluvian and Waiting for Godot. Watch it. There is more to publishing on the Web than the technology – it also call for great editorial skills and a feel for good stories or story telling – a business that newspapers and magazines have been in […]
FHTML – Fluid HTML
The problem with Flash is that its coding was already tough with ActionScript, it is now doubly tough to code especially for designers using ActionScript 3. But that is the price you have to pay to to get a more secure, robust and much speedier Flash 10… or so says the Adobe Flash evangelists. The […]
Google Responds to Microsoft’s Bing
For the last 10 years, Google’s display of search results has seen a slow, gradual [some would say glacial] movement. Yes there have been improvements – the display of search results with similar and then cached options allowing for different views of the search results. Or users could resort to Advanced Search – but Advanced […]
What is a better Web Browser?
I thought the answer to the question would be obvious – not so as the people at Slate point out. This would help explain why Internet Explorer 8 has managed to maintain market share despite being the worst browser for features, standards compliance and performance. So what does Google do – create Chrome Frame – […]
Google Shakes the Web Again: Sidewiki
Google is up to its innovation tricks, proving once again that it is master of Web 2.0 Interface Innovations with Sidewiki – a post-a-comment on any Web page system [and its a Wiki no less]. Google once again is proving that it is taking Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Twitter and the Web 2.0 horde seriously. Facebook […]