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The importance of ubiquity

By Scott Barnes
October 23, 2009

I've spent a few years studying the behavioral pattern associated with ubiquity, and I'm surprised at what I've learned along the way. Here right now, I'm going to unload my findings, and it's up to you to keep an open mind about it all and take a deep breath about the subject. Ubiquity is only important to you, the one in the "doing" seat (developing/designing). Ubiquity isn't important as much as the reasons why people will use a given technology in the first place. Ubiquity is simply a scorecard to track whether or not people are choosing NOT to install a plug-in.

Turbo-charging JavaScript - Trace Trees and V8

By Kurt Cagle
September 22, 2008

Persistence, performance, rich APIs and increasing broadband connectivity are all likely to make a huge difference for this latest generation of browsers, and the quantum improvement of JavaScript capabilities due to Trace Trees and precompiled JavaScript will likely play a major part in that evolution.

Simplifying your Firefox life with Chrome

By Martin Kelley
September 9, 2008

The big secret about the Google Chrome browser is that it's faster in some tests, slower than other. But guess what? As I wrote in my first review, few of us are going to notice any difference. The best part...

Linux Status Page for Chromium

By M. David Peterson
September 4, 2008

For those of you (such as myself) who have interest in Chromium (The foundation of which Google Chrome is built upon) running on Linux, Seo Sanghyeon has created a status page over on the Google Groups Chromium-Dev site. http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev/web/linux-status...

Reflecting Upon Chrome

By Kurt Cagle
September 3, 2008

Chrome represents a change in the way that Google is choosing to play the game, putting them on a far more equal footing with the other browser vendors, and asserting that, on the browser as on the server, they have arrived.

Scott Berkun on Chrome

By chromatic
September 3, 2008

Google Chrome has interesting implications for the web and technology, but how does it work as a browser? Scott Berkun's initial review of the browser as only a browser is the most interesting.

Building V8 On Linux With GCC 4.3

By M. David Peterson
September 2, 2008

via a recent post to the V8-Dev mailing list, the always impressive Seo Sanghyeon provided the following info and patch related to building the V8 virtual machine on Linux via GCC 4.3: Hello, everybody, I had to do the following...

Google Chrome: Not Invented Here Syndrome Invades Mountain View

By M. David Peterson
September 2, 2008

It seems Google has decided the world needs Yet Another WebKit-based Browser: Chrome. Chrome? That's the best they could come up with?! Well, more on that later. In the mean time it seems we got a little investigative work to get done. Here's what we've got so far...

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