“WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process. This model is similar to what Google Chrome offers, with the major difference being that we have built the process split model directly into the framework, allowing other clients to use it.”Anders Carlsson announces WebKit2.
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Google has announced an iPad-friendly version of GMail. Just FYI: This doesn’t appear to have hit custom domains yet, so you’ll need an actual @gmail.com address to see it. You can fake your user agent to see it in desktop Safari or Firefox (using the User Agent Switcher):
Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10
Google Voice is delivered as an HTML5 web app and ReadWriteWeb asks: is it good enough?
A demo of the new Google Chrome for Mac beta which supports extensions and bookmark syncing.
“If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5.”Ian Fette, Gears Team, Hello HTML5
Late Last Year, Google Overtook Apple In WebKit Code Commits
TechCrunch notes how Google has overtaken Apple in number of WebKit commits. Note: This does not account for commit size (amount of code changed), so it may not be an accurate representation of who’s actually contributing more.
“I live in the browser most of the day, and every time I have to leave that to run something that’s not browser-based, that’s actually more annoying than positive. So our current thinking is to keep it in tabs.”Matthew Papakipos, Engineering Director at Chrom OS, Google talks Chrome OS, HTML5, and the future of software
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