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Preview of WebKit’s WebGL / Canvas 3D
Yesterday, I was updating my local checkout of WebKit and I noticed a few tests for "WebGL" scroll by (view commit). Apparently, a big WebGL…
How we hash our Javascript for better caching and less breakage on updates
One of the problems we use to see frequently on Green Felt happened when we’d update a Javascript API: We’d add some parameters to some library function and then update some other files so that they called the function with the new parameters. But when we’d push the changes to the site we’d end up with few users that…
More on today's Gmail issue
Posted by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar Gmail's web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting about 1...
Gmail: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of"
Posted by Emmanuel Pellereau, Software Engineer Quite a few of you use Gmail's custom "From:" to send messages with one of your other email...
Django 1.1 release candidate available
Posted by James Bennett on July 21, 2009
IE6 Must Die (along with 7 and 8)
One of the trending topics on Twitter currently is “ IE6 Must Die “, which are mainly retweets to a blog post entitled “ IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On “. This is certainly true, IE6 has many rendering bugs and lacks support for so many things that it is simply a nightmare to work with. The amount of time and…
WebKit: 3D Transforms
WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS.
A new compression algorithm to make Google Chrome updates small
We have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. We have built Google Chrome to ...
Unacceptable Browser HTTP Accept Headers (Yes, You Safari and Internet Explorer)
When browsers make requests they send headers. The Accept header tells the server what file formats the browser is looking for and can understand.
W3C dumps XHTML2 to concentrate on HTML5
W3C has compiled this list of questions to help public and W3C Members alike understand the future development of XHTML in the W3C.
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Mozilla Firefox 3.5RC1 is out
v.3.5, released June 30th, 2009 Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest version of Firefox. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think, either using this feedback form or by filing a bug in Bugzilla .
Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser
Keep up on what's happening at Opera by following our latest public announcements.
Chrome Now Available for Mac or Linux : Hackers Only
In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux , but what...