October 2011
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What’s slated for CSS4 Selectors?
The CSS Working Group recently published the first working draft of CSS4 Selectors. “Wait…CSS 4? I thought CSS3 was still incomplete” you might ask. The spec process changed after CSS2.1. Instead of one monolithic spec, CSS3 was broken down into smaller bite sized chunks. Each chunk or module graduate to the Recommendation stage independently when they’re ready. As each module doesn’t depend on...
September 2011
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The makeup of the Open Web stack
The Open Web has never had as many capabilities as it has today. We’re seeing an explosion in new or updated specifications, and prototype and stable implementations to go with them. This blog post will look back as the platform we have had available (Called Open Web 0 here) and then looks forward at what we are beginning to get now and into the short and medium term future (which I’ve labelled...
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What’s cooking on the Open Web?
There is so much movement with existing, new, and experimental specs that it is often difficult to keep up. Lets have a look at some of them that are being implemented in browsers right now or in the very near future.
Replacing Mutation Events
DOM Mutation Events were deprecated in DOM 3 Events. This was due to a number of known issues that cause real world performance problem. The three main...
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Windows 8 on tablets. Genius?
There has been a lot of debate on sites such as Daring Fireball about Microsoft’s strategy of putting Windows 8 on tablets, rather than a version of Windows Phone 7 optimised for tablets. As Gruber puts it:
I’m hung up on the question of how any OS that lets you do everything Windows does could compete with the iPad, because the iPad’s appeal and success is largely forged by the advantages that...
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The Era of mobile dominance is beginning
We’re in the middle of a mobile web revolution. However, its not iPhone, smart phones or the west that is leading this revolution. No, if you want to go to the epicentre of where the mobile web is really changing the status quo and leap frogging the incumberants then you have to go to Africa.
Thousands of miles from the innovation centres of Silicon Valley and the legions of iPhones and...
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Motorola Classics
Motorola is right up there with the best of them when you consider the seminal phone models that influenced the industry. They have never been as big outside the USA as inside, but those classics mostly had global appeal. As I am shortly joining Motorola Mobility to hopefully kick start a new successful chapter in its storied history, I thought it was worthwhile writing my fist post here on some...