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The Secret’s Out: How to Create Maxthon3 Skins

08.28.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

There are an awful lot of heroes in Beijing this week. They are the developers and designers who have worked so hard to make things so easy for the rest of us. They are the creators of Maxthon3, which made its formal debut Friday around the world. The new browser has got tricks up ...

Trip report, UCSD

08.28.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

On Sunday (8/22) through Wednesday (8/25), I visited the Tor research group at UCSD as part of my ongoing plans to help academic research groups better understand Tor and its research problems. Damon McCoy has a fellowship (postdoc) there for last year... ...

More on SVG

08.27.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

The first IE9 Platform Preview unveiled IE9’s initial support of SVG. As explained previously, SVG is a vector image format managed by the W3C. The release of the third and fourth Platform Previews come with feature-complete SVG. Major additions incl... ...

Chromium Graphics Overhaul

08.27.2010 · Posted in Browser Wire

For some time now, there’s been a lot of work going on to overhaul Chromium’s graphics system. New APIs and markup like WebGL and 3D CSS transforms are a major motivation for this work, but it also lets Chromium begin to take advantage of the GPU ... ...

Fennec Alpha Released for Android and Nokia N900

08.27.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

The Alpha release of the next major version of Fennec is now available for Android and Nokia N900 users to download and test. Fennec (codename for Firefox mobile) is the first mobile browser to offer add-ons and is built on the same technology that powers desktop Firefox. The latest version of Fennec builds on the ...

New Firefox Mobile versions

08.26.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

AMO has been updated with 2.0a1 and 2.0b1pre versions for Firefox Mobile.  Alpha 1 will be released in the next day or so, so please test your extension if you already are compatible with 2.0a1pre, it is very likely that your extension will still work.  Also, the Fennec nightly builds have been updated to 2.0b1pre, ...