Tag: browser

  • Firefox fights back

    Source: Inside Mozilla: Firefox fights back

  • Firefox Quantum

    The Register (in its usual somewhat snarky style) has some good news about developments in Firefox [Project Quantum] is not a new web browser. Quantum is Mozilla’s project to build the next-generation web engine for Firefox users, building on the Gecko engine as a solid foundation. Quantum will leverage the fearless concurrency of Rust and…

  • WebAssembly

    The browser keeps evolving to become a more comprehensive platform, operating system. WebAssembly is a new proposed standard bytecode that the major browser-makers are committing to support. It will interop with javascript (I believe) and HTML5 APIs, and is intended as a compile-target for other languages. More information here.

  • Struggling with the "OWL on Safari" Bug

    You can see me scratching my head over on Stack Overflow. I’ve got some kind of answer, not sure if it’s the right one yet. Will keep you posted when it’s in the repository. Update : OK. It’s up on GitHub. Would welcome feedback if it’s now working. (Safari on Mac, IE on Windows, Chrome…

  • Why Don't Browsers Let Web-Apps Write To The Local File System?

    My Quora question : I mean, I know why. It’s a security thing. But why couldn’t a browser have an API for scripts to read / write the file system and a security feature where the web-app has to ask and be given permission by the user before it runs? (Just as Android apps. have…

  • Introducing OWL

    I love outlining. I love wiki. What do you get when you create a mutant cross-breed of the two? A fucking power tool, that’s what! It’s just a rough draft, at the moment, a rough mashup of Concord and ideas from SdiDesk. But I think you can see it’s compelling …

  • Fargo For LinkBlogging

    I’m a couple of days into LinkBlogging using Fargo, (at Yelling At Strangers From The Sky) and I have to say, I’m getting into the swing and it’s great. If you keep the outline open in a tab, it’s about as fast and convenient to post to Fargo as posting a link to Plus or…

  • Elm Lang

    I must confess, I’m very intrigued by Elm-Lang. For me there are four virtues : 1) FRP. All the attempts I’ve seen to graft FRP onto existing languages have looked clunky to me – ahem … Trellis? – Requiring the explicit definition of special types of fields. This is the kind of thing that I think needs…

  • LightTable

    Interesting this new surge of dynamic IDEs. First there was Brett Victor’s awesome demo. Now there’s LightTable (promoted on KickStarter, discussed on Quora) Sporadic thoughts. Is this implemented in the browser? (Bespin? CodeMirror)? Perhaps we’re seeing this explosion of innovation as IDE authors move to the cloud. A Kickstarter project? That’s cool. But motivated by…

  • Three.js

    Bloody hell! Three.js is cool. And CSG. What can’t you do in the browser these days?