Chrome is Fast, But Not That Fast (7)
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Just how fast is Google’s Chrome browser? JavaScript performance-lover (and Mozilla employee) John Resig ran some tests that show Chrome may be fast, but other browsers aren’t that far behind. When Google released Chrome, it included benchmarks that show its browser zipping away from the competition at light speed. There’s no doubt Chrome is fast and we think it’s already changed the web. It seems, like with most statistics, it all depends whose benchmarks you ...
How Chrome Changed the Web Overnight - Webmonkey (6)
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Nobody at Webmonkey expected to wake up and experience an internet game change today, but with Google’s semi-accidental launch of the Chrome browser Sunday, that’s exactly what we got. We barely had enough time to clean up the coffee spittle on our monitors. It started with a very candid and thoughtful comic. It used drawn characters of Chrome designers to eloquently describe the browser’s inner workings. If it wasn’t in comic form, it would read ...
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Zaki said:
I didn't consider the multiprocessor implications
JQuery Redesign: “Be a JavaScript Rock Star” (7)
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JavaScript framework JQuery redesigned its project site, continuing its innovative ways. The home page jumps out with an illustration that is apparently contentious within the JQuery community. Like it or hate it, it’s definitely a bold departure from the previous version. Rey Bango, a JQuery evangelist, puts it this way: One of the things about the jQuery Project is that we’ve never run with the crowd or accepted the norm. By pushing boundaries and sometimes ...
Opera Taunts IE8 Over Standards (4)
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Hakon Lie’s rant against Internet Explore 8’s interoperability promise is making a big stink where Microsoft should instead be lauded. Lie, the Chief Technical Officer for rival browser Opera, complains that IE8 defaults to a previous rendering engine for intranet pages. Microsoft had previously promised to always support the highest standards. Lie goes on to invent statistics to show intranets make up half of the page view on PCs. While the method for determining his ...
Fluid and Gears Closes in on Web App Freedom (4)
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I’ve been dreaming of the day I can finally press the delete button on Microsoft Word for good. Nothing against Word, per se. It has served me well enough throughout the years. I think it is the challenge and change of view I’m looking for. My quest for a replacement started when I realized most everything I do on Word could also be done in Google Docs or Zoho …for free. However, the major hurdle ...
BBEdit 9 Packed With Powerful New Text Editing Tools (2)
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Text editors are the nerd’s equivalent of a religion, complete with the blind allegiance and flame wars. On Mac OS X, the long-popular BBEdit religion was starting to look a little long in the tooth next to more recent upstarts like TextMate and others. But BBEdit fans, your day has arrived. Bare Bones, makers of the venerable BBEdit, have handed down a new set of tablets bringing BBEdit alongside, and arguably far past, its competitors. ...
Users Demand OpenID: Google, Twitter Among Top (4)
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OpenID enthusiasts have been spoken and they’re demanding OpenID support from Google, Twitter, and other popular websites. The Demand OpenID site was created by provider JanRain and has been active for several months. Will less than 500 people be enough to convince the internet giants to open up to OpenID? Probably not, but it’s a step. Here’s the top five sites where users would like to see OpenID: Google Twitter Facebook Wikipedia Flickr Some of ...
First Look at Chi.mp Alpha (2)
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Recently we wrote about how Chi.mp is evolving OpenID. The service, which is in a closed Alpha, gives out free .mp domain names, allows a very basic feed aggregator, and is an OpenID provider. We got a chance to check out the service and thought we’d share with you. Above shows an example of a Chi.mp profile page. This one is from Laurel Boylen, Chi.mp’s community manager. The aggregation of different web services led us ...
Quarkbase Knows Website Popularity (1)
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Wednesday marked the launch of Quarkbase, a website popularity index. Quarkbase.com’s purpose for being is to know all about your site. Its logo says it all: “Everything about a Website.” It delivers by aggregating the information from a lot of searches you could perform on your own. Alexa site traffic, domain and registrar contact information; the number of Digg, Reddit, Yahoo Answers, and Wikipedia entries. It’s a hefty amount of information and a one-stop shop ...
Yahoo Previews YUI 3.0 JavaScript Library (2)
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Yahoo has released a preview of the next version of its popular YUI JavaScript framework for web developers. YUI version 3.0, which will be released as a beta soon, has some fairly radical changes from the current 2.0 version. With JavaScript-heavy websites like Flickr, Yahoo Mail, MyYahoo and Yahoo Sports, Yahoo has long been at the web’s cutting edge for producing rich, interactive user interfaces. The company’s freely available YUI library has helped popularize various ...
What’s SUP?: FriendFeed’s Modest RSS Proposal (35)
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The RSS wizards at FriendFeed (a social news aggregation site) are proposing a new way to distribute and fetch RSS feeds faster. The proposal is a simple one: publishers provide a centralized RSS to inform readers which feeds have been been updated since their last visit. The benefit? Your news fast. FriendFeed’s Gary Burd and Paul Buchheit (both former Googlers) want to download your RSS feeds as rapidly as they can without taking down your ...
Latest Django Beta Sets the Stage for 1.0 Release (1)
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The Django web development framework has cranked out a second beta release on its way to the final 1.0 due in September. The latest release sees some welcome additions like a refactored comments application, rewritten documentation and the removal of some legacy code. The leaner Django 1.0 beta 2 also marks the feature and string freezes, which means the only things left to do are bugs fixes and some more documentation improvements. For complete details ...
Host Your Muxtape Clone With OpenTape (1)
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Muxtape, the web service that let you create music mixes to share with your friends, is currently wrestling with the RIAA and has, at least for now, shut its doors. But if you’re fan of the service and you happen to have some web hosting space available there’s a new open source project that allows you to create your own hosted Muxtape. OpenTape, as the project is known, is written in PHP and is no ...
The Internet Gets a New Command Line With Firefox's Ubiquity (30)
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Mozilla launched a new experimental browser plug-in Tuesday that has the power to change the way people interact with the dozens of web services they use every day. The project, called Ubiquity, is an open-source extension to the Firefox web browser. To start testing it out, grab the prototype add-on, a free download for all platforms, from Mozilla Labs. Ubiquity is basically an attempt to build an easy-to-grasp user interface for the open web at ...
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Ross said:
to-read
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Nichol said:
amazing!
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mrkvm said:
nifty.
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Ryan Cahoon said:
I guess this might be more useful if you're more into the web services than i am
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sumidiot said:
Looking forward to trying this when I get home.
Firebug Flies Out of Beta (1)
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If you’ve been waiting for an official release to install the latest Firebug, wait no more. Version 1.2 of the popular web developer extension for Firefox is no longer in beta. You can download Firebug at the Firefox add-ons site. John Resig, one of the new Firebug team members, has a great rundown on what’s new. Resig is always on the lookout for performance issues and he brings up an important one with JavaScript debugging. ...
iPhone Update Crushes OpenClip’s Copy-and-Paste Dreams (2)
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File under: that didn’t take long. OpenClip, an effort to bring copy-and-paste features to the iPhone, has shutdown. As we mentioned last week, the developers of OpenClip discovered a loophole that allowed iPhone apps to shared clipboard data, as long as all applications used the OpenClip framework. Unfortunately the loophole is something Apple decided to close off with the iPhone 2.1 software update. Apps using OpenClip will still work and you can copy and paste ...
FriendFeed Redesign Cuts the Noise With ‘Fake Follow’ Feature (3)
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FriendFeed has rolled out a beta preview of the site’s coming redesign which includes some welcome new features, like a much-requested “fake follow” tool, as well as the ability to post photos directly from any URL. Among most noticeable changes in the new design are Friend Lists, a feature that allows you to separate friends into select groups (like you would a contacts list, or similar features in Facebook). That way you can split your ...
