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Blink
As you probably know, Google announced Blink, the new rendering engine that will power Opera and Chrome, forked from WebKit (which itself was forked from KHTML).
- Hello Blink -my take
- Devs respond to new Blink and Servo browser engines – .net magazine
- Excellent analysis by PPK
- Thoughts on Blink – “WebKit wasn’t a love fest of like-minded engineers but 2 lions circling each other, always prepared for the battle” by Krzysztof Kowalczyk, an early contributor to WebKit
- Well, err, that solves the WebKit monoculture problem by Google’s Jake Archibald
- Why What You’re Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong by Google’s Alex Russell
- 30 minute Q&A video with Paul Irish and Blink devs
- A Short Translation from Bullshit to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ – “we will be silently overwriting all existing installations of Chrome with our new rendering engine without your knowledge or consent”. Auto-updates, eh? That’s NORTH KOREA.
Stand Hards
- asm.js is a cool initiative from Mozilla. It’s a subset of JavaScript that will behave identically whether it is run in an existing JavaScript engine or an ahead-of-time (AOT) compiling engine
- Nintendo Web Framework “is a development environment based on WebKit technologies, supporting application development on the Wii U system using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS.”
- Responsive Retrofitting – “finding a way to use responsive techniques on legacy sites to create a better experience for more users”
Industry
- Introducing Tabula – “Upload a PDF, get back tabular CSV data.” Another cool Mozilla initiative.
- Forty mobile phone facts – “every fifth person you meet has two phones and is probably a crystal meth dealer/having an affair.” Or is a developer.
Tumblr Misc
- Punk rock videos – my own occasional curation of live punk
- reasons my son is crying
- Pictures by my daughter
- Indifferent cats in amateur porn – Not Safe for Work (obviously)
And RIP Cynthia Waddell, a tireless lawyer and campaigner for disability rights on the web, and co-author of the first book I helped develop.
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Giggled at your auto-update comment.
To be honest, I’d prefer Opera to make auto-updates optional after the switch myself, but if the Chromium source doesn’t allow for an easy way to manually update, then so be it.
And, just out of curiosity: Will Opera be using Native Client now that it’s changing to Chromium? The thought is a little worrisome to me, for some of the arguments Mozilla devs post against NC.