A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities while designing a platform that can fully utilize the performance of tomorrow’s massively parallel hardware to enable new and richer experiences on the Web. To …
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A tad late, but here it is nonetheless: A collection of user styles that change the default rendering of websites. Perfect way to fool someone on April 1st. Put these CSS definitions into your co-workers css overriding file. They will be applied to every website they visit. They are commented out by default, so make …
Google just announced it’ll fork Webkit for use with Chrome/Chromium as it has become too difficult to add features to it as Chrome uses quite a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers: When Chromium started, our goal was to change as little of WebKit as possible, easing integration with the WebKit codebase. With Blink …
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By leveraging this new JavaScript optimization technology (asm.js), Mozilla has been able to bring Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 to the Web. With this port, developers will soon be able to explore limitless possibilities when it comes to porting their popular gaming titles to the Web. Mozilla is Unlocking the Power of the Web as a …
So how do you calculate your hourly rate? That’s easy, it’s the salary you want to make, divided by 52 weeks a year, divided by 40 hours a week. Simple! Right, right?! It’s a tad more complex than you might thing at first: Next to showing one how to calculate the minimum rate, it also …