Chris Messina provides some raw thoughts on Mozilla in the form of a really long video (50 minutes!) and the notes he worked off of. You can get an idea of the content from his notes, but there’s a whole lot of extra detail in the video. I’m interested because I’m working on the section […]
January 3, 2007 – 10:23 am
Erick Schonfeld writes about what web widgets will do to the economics of the web:
With widgets will come ad buttons and sponsored marketing messages gussied up as content. In an attempt to break through the clutter, advertisers will be creating even more of it. Widget startups will spring up that not only disseminate information to […]
December 2, 2006 – 1:08 pm
I’ve been playing around with Ajax start pages today. I plan to review the more popular ones for Web Worker Daily or perhaps just write some sort of feature article about using them, but so far I’ve just felt frustrated by them. They are so far from doing what I want.
The three I’m trying so […]
November 30, 2006 – 11:38 am
Actually, those two things have little to do with each other except that I wrote about them both during the last 24 hours:
On my RedMonk blog, I discussed XML-based UI definition languages including XForms, something that’s been on my mind for a little while.
For Web Worker Daily, I ask whether the impending consumer launch of […]
November 19, 2006 – 8:59 pm
If you are a web developer, the answer is almost certainly NO.
I write this knowing it will tweak those people who think that Java still matters to the web development world. But it doesn’t. So sorry.
What technologies do matter for web development?
HTML and CSS
JavaScript
PHP
MySQL
And perhaps:
Flash (but not if Adobe keeps being coy about it)
Why do […]
November 16, 2006 – 12:52 pm
Will Ajax overtake Flash in 2007? More likely, we’ll see a proliferation of web apps and sites that use a combination of Ajax and Flash, as it becomes easier to combine the two and as developers find the best way to use each. We’ll see a bit more Java too in the browser, not necessarily […]
November 10, 2006 – 9:52 am
Zimbra demonstrated an offline version of its Ajax client yesterday at Web 2.0. It handles two way synchronization of mail, calendar, contacts, and documents for disconnected work. I’m assuming they’re using some sort of browser storage approach, although Ajaxian mentions that in the past they’ve used a localhost proxy to allow for disconnected access. Installing […]
November 7, 2006 – 6:20 pm
Ten years from now, let’s see if I’m right: the browser is where our apps will live, not on the desktop. The browser will be extended to give us offline connectivity and access to desktop resources. The browser and its context provides what we need for mobile access. The browser is where it’s at, not […]
November 7, 2006 – 3:13 pm
Adobe has announced the open sourcing of its ActionScript virtual machine to Mozilla through the Tamarin project. This does not in any way mean that Flash itself is being open sourced, so don’t start thinking about some utopia where Flash and Ajax dance harmoniously together. The main benefit to Firefox users should be faster JavaScript […]
You don’t usually see “JavaScript” and “Python” in the same sentence or even in the same article. That’s because they’re most often used for two different purposes by two different kinds of people. JavaScript is usually used within a Web browser whereas Python is used either on the server or as a general-purpose scripting language. […]
