Tag Archives: webkit

Google Chrome and the future of browsers

News came today confirming Google’s plans for Chrome, its own open source browser based on Webkit. This is big news. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get much bigger than this, at least in my little shed on the internet. I’ve been struggling to come to grips with my thoughts on this since I [...]

Site-specific browsers and GreaseKit

There’s general class of applications that’s been gaining some traction lately in the Mozilla communities built on a free-standing framework called Web Runner. The idea is simple: take a browser, cut out the tabs, the URL bar and all the rest of the window chrome and instead load one website at a time. Hence the [...]

So Mozilla wants to go mobile, eh?

As with baseball, on the web we have our home teams and our underdogs and our all-stars; we have our upsets, our defeats, and our glorious wins in the bottom of the ninth. And though I’m actually not much of a baseball fan anymore (though growing up in New England, I was exposed to plenty [...]