Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Feb 2013 13:21 UTC
De kogel is door de kerk: as we already talked about earlier, Opera is going to switch to the WebKit engine, leaving its own Presto rendering engine behind. We didn't yet know if they would the switch only on mobile or on the desktop as well, and they cleared that up too: both mobile and desktop Opera Browsers will switch to the WebKit rendering engine.
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RE[5]: The IE is dead, long live Webkit.
by Nelson on Thu 14th Feb 2013 18:30
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Any website using touch / animation usually uses WebKit extensions.
But its must more than that, there's a shitload of WebKit only extensions that are used by plenty of "iPhone Optimized" websites around the internet.
You need look no farther than Apple's own developer documentation to see how bad things are. Also, anyone who does this kinda thing for a living can attest to the absolute clusterfuck that this is.
RE[6]: The IE is dead, long live Webkit.
by lucas_maximus on Thu 14th Feb 2013 19:08
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Member since:2009-08-18
I do this for a living, I mainly still work on the now not so cool "desktop website" for a major gaming company in UK. Though my title is front end I spent most of my time re-factoring and adding new features to a large C# codebase. For the most part I enjoy my job.
We are adding in some touch functionality, but we have bigger problems at the moment which are more to do with version control and fragmentation.
I am constantly frustrated though that people think that because something is open source that there immediately isn't a problem.
For those that are using a browser it is fine and I enjoy using the newest Firefox. For those developing it is a different story and tbh I think in a worse state (mainly due to it being transitional).
RE[6]: The IE is dead, long live Webkit.
by cdude on Fri 15th Feb 2013 18:49
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Member since:2008-09-21
-webkit prefixes
The w3c even suggests the use of browser prefixes for yet not stable and standardized API. Once the API is stable and standard prefixes are removed.
Touch
WebKit is the only browser engine supporting the 2 existing touch interfaces including Microsoft's very own one. Both touch interfaces (including Microsoft's) didn't made it through the w3c yet too. Good example from yours validating the need for the prefix case :-)
shitload of WebKit only extensions that are used by plenty of "iPhone Optimized" websites around the internet.
Most of them supported by e.g. Firefox. HTML5 is a living standard and it takes some time till de facto standards made it through the w3c committees, into the specs and till a new version of the specs is published (how many years took HTML5? right). Meanwhile browser-vendors like Firefox, Opera, Google, Apple, Blackberry, etc work well together to define what comes next, implement it (with prefixes), get it stable, push through w3c, remove prefixes.
See such prefixes as "future" namespace with private API that is subject to changes till it becomes official public API.
Exactly this concept is the reason why HTML development accelerated so much within last years compared to the many many years before.
Edited 2013-02-15 19:08 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."More News »
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Can't think of anything obvious. Most of these sites are done by designers that abuse -webkit prefixes.
I usually never return to them and I am certainly not going to keep a list.
A lot of the sencha touch toolkit only worked in Chrome/Safari as of last year ... is the only example that sticks in my mind ... which I thought was pretty poor.
I am sure you might call bullshit, but considering the -webkit prefix abuse has been called out on quite well respected blogs such as quirksmode ... There is plenty of evidence the problem exists.
Edited 2013-02-14 16:15 UTC