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Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone
The iPad browsing interface has been completely redesigned to feel more at home in the iPad environment. Instead of just being a blown-up full-screen list, it’s now a more touch-friendly grid, with all navigation available in any orientation:
There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe
I recently worked on the update to the ASP.NET site, now in beta at ...
Require.js + Backbone.js = Robust Modular Application Development
Learn how Backbone.js applications are organized using modules, namespaces, reusable Views, and scalable frontend architecture patterns.
Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser
Longtime Readers of this blog will be aware that I have been a fan of Mozilla for a long time. There’s nearly ten years of Mozilla advocacy tucked away in the JWM archives. I’ve been on the Mozilla fanboy train since before Firefox even existed — all the way back to the original Mozilla Suite’s Milestone 17 release…
Daring Fireball: The iPhone 4S
This is the easiest product review I’ve ever written. The iPhone 4S is exactly what Apple says it is: just like the iPhone 4, but noticeably faster, with a significantly improved camera, and an impressive new voice-driven feature called Siri.
Team Fortress 2 in WebGL
Took the time to get the source and video demo for the Source Engine demo online tonight. Have a look! GitHub Source And of course d...
Adobe Flash 11 is now stable for 64-bit Linux
Adobe Flash Player End of Life general information
Node.js has jumped the shark
I've been trying to understand this whole Node.js thing that's been going on for the past few days. It's taught me a lot about how the Node....
Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?
The web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change. Before, it was fine to build a website and mod...
Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles
Apple and Amazon are approaching the tablet territory from opposing sides.
SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web
As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"), an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In…
What's new in Firefox 7
v.7.0, offered to release channel users on September 27th, 2011 Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest released version of Firefox. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6
Feb 2015: 3½ years later, we’re in a better place. The new IE Spartan project has killed off document modes . (Technically, still possible in firewall environments, but… effectively dead for us.) These days, our IE support landscape is IE8 (still), IE11, and IE Mobile. 3 is definitely better than 72.
"How much does a website cost?" – a survey of web designers
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MySQL.com currently Hacked (and serving javascript malware)
It looks like the MySQL.com website is currently hacked and compromised with a JavaScript malware (and serving malware to anyone visiting it). Our scanner identified…
It’s the end of the web as we know it
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Why Facebook's 'Frictionless Sharing' violates HTTP
Facebook has this new feature , whereby the act of simply reading a web page, under certain conditions, gets it posted to your news feed, ...
Chrome Privacy
Dave Winer ends an otherwise quite reasonable piece about his concern at Facebook's