Entries tagged with “browsers” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

A while back, Derrick Story wondered how valuable Roxio Toast still was, given the disc-burning features built in to Mac OS X. Well, Toast hasn't grown moldy; Roxio added a bunch of features right after Derrick's post came out. I've covered two obscure but very cool audio ones: the ability to make high-resolution and surround-sound DVDs. Here's another tasty Toast...

As Apple prepares to announce the iPhone SDK in a couple of hours I'm torn. Haven't people been trying to convince us for years of the advantages of browser based applications? And Apple has put the browser on its list of strategically important pieces of the puzzle to own along with hardware and the operating system.

This post attempts to put some meat on that overloaded term, "Web 2.0." It does this by defining the atmosphere that Web 2.0 applications operate within and making (hopefully) clear assertions about what the moving parts are, as well as the core attributes of those parts. The goal is to give the reader some "kindling wood" for thinking about creating their own composite application services around this emerging model.

Technology always affects art, and search technology is no exception. Listening to a band called Tilly And The Wall, I wondered if, consciously or not, their style might have been influenced by search-engine optimization. This after all is a band that features a glockenspiel player and a tap dancer.

Why does a single browser window need 100 megabytes of memory to function?

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ETech kicks into high gear with a barrage of short and powerful high order bits talks. Today I'll ponder the ETech theme of Remix while looking at Flickr and Firefox.

The recent Slashdot posts about Firefox's trouble to recruit more core developers made me examine the nature of recruiting developers into complex projects. Not surprisingly, its a difficult task!

When do client applications matter? Simply put, when does a rich client have an "unfair advantage" over a web browser in terms of bringing real value-add to the application composite?

Marc Stiegler's presentation on the E Development platform and "capability secure" browsers and desktops caught the attention of many an E-Tech conference goer. (Paul Prescod, Wes Felten, Aaron Swartz and myself, just to name just a few...)

AOL looks to use Netscape in future releases, causing a shiver to go down both Microsoft's and most web developers spines.

Late last year I reviewed the release of Netscape 6, in which I decided however pretty it was, it wasn't quite ready for prime time. It's been five months since then and I'm regretting ever installing it on my machine.