Tag: opera

Webkit 1: Opera: 0

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Opera is switching to WebKit to render web pages. Essentially, that’s game over for the web, argues John Herman: It’s also the same engine that underpins both Mobile Safari on the iPhone and iPad and the default browser in Android — the two most popular mobile browsers by far. WebKit, in other words, has orchestrated and executed one of the largest, and quietest, coups in tech history… WebKit’s dominations is also an early death knell for web standards as we know them today. When following official World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards is in developers’ best interest — when it ensures

America loves apps, Taiwan loves the browser

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…and never the twain shall meet:  I realize now that I don’t really use a web browser on my phone. Really. On my Android phone, I use mostly Native Apps, and I use the browser when I have to. I have this “App reflex”: Some people can’t or don’t want to use Native Apps. Because their phones don’t have Apps, or because there is just no good Apps for what they want to do, or because, well, because they don’t need to. And they don’t need to because the browsers have always been good enough. Thank Opera for that.

Writing About Considering Everything

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I’ve started to do some writing over on the Blogger Advocacy section of Creative Choices, a website set up to “[help] individuals takie control of their own career decisions [by making sure] they are well informed and supported in their desire to succeed. My first post is about browser and computing compatibility online: In extreme circumstances, where a website doesn’t load correctly, you might have people skipping over your site purely because it doesn’t work 100% perfectly in their web browser, even if the information they’re looking for is in front of them.. Woe betide you if you pop up