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Browser wars: the platform wins

Panel: Arun Ranganathan Mozilla, Chris Wilson (Web Platform Architect, Microsoft), Brendan Eich (CTO, Mozilla Foundation), Charles McCathieNevile (Chief Standards Officer, Opera Software), Darin Fisher (Software Engineer, Google) Browser experts from Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Opera, and the Webkit project are all here. ...

Tags: JavaScript, Web Browser, Gecko, Web Browsers, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-16

An axe to grind with Ajax

An axe to grind with AjaxDrop your third question.• What are the security implications of publishing all these XMLHttpRequest endpoints?The same implications as all of those servlets, cgi's, or other form responders that you already offer on your web servers.XMLHttpRequest is just how the browser makes an asynchronous page request...

Tags: Web browsers, gecko, AJAX, Web browser, XMLHttpRequest

Discussion threads 2006-06-13

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta 4 (Mac)

Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Firefox 3.6 Beta, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows CE, Channel Management, Internet, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-26

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Camino 2.0 (Mac)

The Camino Project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design. Camino combines the awesome...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Browser, Capability, Camino Project, Camino Web Browser, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 (Mac)

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Firefox 3.5, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 (Windows)

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most...

Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Firefox 3.5, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-05

Did Stallman fisk himself?

boogeyman?the most irritating thing about stallman is not his "political incorrectness" or his "shooting from the lip," but that is he is so often right. that really gets under your skin.I hate to agree...I've always felt that RMS is irritating, obnoxious and downright rude. However, anyone who dismisses what...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

WebSpirit Internet Browser 2.0 (Windows)

WebSpirit is a very fast, customizable, lightweight Web Browser for the Win32 Windows platform based on the Gecko Layout Engine the rendering engine of Mozilla and also Microsoft's Internet Explorer download manager & tools. This Browser is a free Internet browsing software suite released under the GPL software license agreement....

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., WebSpirit, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-09-23

Will Microsoft always be seen as open source Astroturf?

Long ago......people gave up any semblance of being able to separate the message from the messenger. We saw it with the anti-Bush tirades, we see it now with the anti-Obama (and the anti-anti-Obama) tirades, as we see it in the anti-Microsoft tirades. Microsoft could announce that the sun was going...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., publically-traded company, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

Orca Browser 1.2 build 5 (Windows)

Orca Browser is an extremely fast and user friendly Web browser, designed to add more functions on to the latest version of Firefox. Not only does Orca Browser contains all the features, such as security, low memory usage, spell-checker, or built-in download manager from a typical Gecko based browser, it...

Tags: Password, built-In, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, Avant, Orca Browser, Online Profile Storage, Web Browsers, RSS, Internet

Software downloads 2009-08-17

Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest

Real standards[i]"That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market."[/i]Microsoft has never been particularly keen on supporting real standards, they've always preferred their own formats to maintain their monopoly.IE...

Tags: Web browsers, Quality, XHTML, W3C, Microsoft Corp., standards, HTML, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, ISO

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

JxBrowser 1.3 (Mac)

JxBrowser enables seamless integration of Mozilla Firefox web browser into Java AWT/Swing applications on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X platforms. The library uses the Gecko layout engine for rendering HTML documents, thus ensuring compliance with many Internet standards (HTML 4, CSS, XML, JavaScript, and others). With JxBrowser you could...

Tags: HTML, Apple Macintosh, Java, Web Browser, Standards, TeamDev, JxBrowser, Web Browsers, Internet, CSS, Quality, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-07-16

Camino 1.6.8 (Mac)

The Camino Project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design. Camino combines the awesome...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Web Browser, Capability, Camino Project, Camino Web Browser, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-06-22

K-Meleon 1.5.3 (Windows)

K-Meleon is the browser you control. K-Meleon is a fast and customizable Web browser that can be used instead of Internet Explorer on Windows. Powered by the same Gecko engine as the Firefox and Mozilla browsers, K-Meleon provides users with a secure browsing experience. Based on the Mozilla 1.8.0.7 codebase....

Tags: Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., K-Meleon, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-05-09

Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 now available

The Mozilla team released beta 4 of Firefox 3.5 Monday night. Firefox 3.5 was formerly referred to as Firefox 3.1. The improvements in this beta are numerous, and include, according to the Mozilla team: IImproved tools for controlling your private data,...

Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Firefox.Next: Namoroka due in early 2010

Even as the Firefox team struggles to get beta 4 out the door, the team is already talking about the next version beyond Firefox 3.5. The next gen, code named "Namoroka," is expected to be named Firefox 3.6 and will be released in 2010. It will offer advancements...

Tags: Web, Team, Mozilla Firefox, Performance, Web Application, Web Browsers, Team Management, Performance Management, Internet, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 now available

Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is now available. The code offers improved Private Browsing Mode, including the ability to “Forget This Site” from the History sidebar, improved performance stability with the new TraceMonkey Javascript engine and new native JSON support, Mozilla said in a blog posted yesterday....

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Where to stick your digital camera (and how)

Where to stick your digital camera and how*snickers*Where indeed...Now REAL gecko technology: that'd be interestingYou know, billions of tiny nano-fibers setting up a powerful Van der Waals force like the one the gecko's footpads create? The next generation of adhesive technology? Promised two years ago? Yeah, THAT gecko technology.Wake me...

Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, digital camera, camera

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Where to stick your digital camera (and how)

During the post-PMA lull in the digital camera universe, I've stumbled upon two interesting albeit a little odd accessories, that might just help you get that difficult shot. Both the Monster Pod and the Fat Gecko Camera Mount let you boldly go where no tripod will take you, letting...

Tags: Monster, Digital Camera, Camera, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2009-03-10