Category Archives: openweb

Bedrock

April 1, 2012 – 10:41 pm

Jetlag has me in its throes which is as good an excuse as any to share what has been keeping me up many nights over the past couple of years; a theory of the web as a platform. I had a chance last week to share some of my thinking here to an unlikely audience [...]

By alex | Also posted in dhtml, javascript, standards, webdev | Comments (6)

Misdirection

February 15, 2012 – 4:04 pm

As the over-heated CSS vendor prefix debate rages, I can’t help but note the mounting pile of logical fallacies and downright poor reasoning being deployed. Some context is in order. Your Moment Of Zen The backdrop to this debate is that CSS is absolutely the worst, least productive part of the web platform. Apps teams [...]

By alex | Also posted in chrome, economics, google, javascript, licensing, mobile, opensource, programming, standards, webdev, work | Comments (35)

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 [...]

By alex | Also posted in politics, standards, webdev | Comments (26)

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)