Category Archives: openweb

Vendor Prefixes Are A Rousing Success

November 18, 2011 – 7:36 am

tl;dr version: Henri Sivonen’s arguments against vendor prefixing for CSS properties focus on harm without considering value, which in turn has caused him to come to a non-sensical set of conclusions and recommendations. Progress is a process, and vendor prefixes have been critical in accelerating that process for CSS. For a while now I’ve been [...]

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Google & the Future of JavaScript

September 12, 2011 – 5:36 pm

Simply stated, Google is absolutely committed to making JavaScript better, and we’re pushing hard to make it happen.

By alex | Also posted in webdev | Comments (36)

Non-Admin Chrome Frame, Now Stable!

August 30, 2011 – 9:17 pm

The title says it all: you can now put a link like this in your app and users will get the stable version of either admin or non-admin Chrome Frame, depending on what rights they have on their system: <!–[if lt IE 9 ]> <p>Your browser is <em>ancient!</em> <a href="http://microsoft.com/ie">Upgrade</a> or <a href="http://www.google.com/chromeframe/?redirect=true"> install Google [...]

By alex | Also posted in chrome, google, work | Comments (2)

Half Lives

March 9, 2011 – 9:04 am

I’m headed to Austin soon for spring break SxSWi, and this year I’m lucky and grateful to be representing Chrome on the always-packed browser panel (more usable Lanyrd talk page here). The context for this year’s panel is interesting to me — a couple of years into a renewed era of browser competition, users have [...]

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When Free Isn’t Cheap Enough

August 10, 2010 – 5:19 am

The concepts of negative externality and moral hazard describe situations where one person can impose costs on another without paying for it, often resulting in less-than optimal outcomes for everyone. That sounds a lot like what’s going on with organizations that won’t upgrade from IE6 to me. Lets quickly consider both sides of the browser [...]

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