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HTML5 Wish List for 2011: Interview with Michael Mullany
Michael Mullany from Sencha has published a list of things that would benefit HTML5 during 2011. InfoQ has interviewed Michael in order to get some more details regarding his vision.
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HTML5 Labs–A Website for Prototyping New Web Technologies
Microsoft has decided not to include emerging web technologies still under development in IE9, providing instead HTML5 Labs, a website for testing prototype technologies such as IndexedDB and WebSockets.
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Google Goes Deeper into the Enterprise with Chrome and GAE for Business
Google wants to make inroads in the enterprise space offering a business version of Chrome, including policies, preferences, and configuration capabilities, and upgrading the GAE offering with an SLA, support, billing, hosted SQL, SSL, and SSO.
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Google News: Chrome OS, Chrome Web Store, and Cloud Print
Google has announced recently a number of new developments: the status of Chrome OS, a new market for applications running in Chrome, and cloud printing support in Chrome, all preparing the way for Chrome OS devices.
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Last IE9 Platform Preview Available with Improved Performance and Standards Compliance
Microsoft has released the fourth and last preview version of Internet Explorer 9, which features hardware acceleration, deep integration with the JS engine and has improvements in performance and adoption of standards like SVG, CSS, HTML5, etc.
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Improving the Performance of Web Applications with Google’s Native Client
In order to increase the performance of CPU-intensive web applications, Google is developing Native Client, a browser technology used to run native code. Unlike Netscape’s NPAPI or Microsoft’s ActiveX plug-in technologies, Native Client runs in a double sandbox prohibiting access to the underlying operating system.
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Google Will Stop Supporting Older Browsers
Google has announced they will stop supporting older and less secure browsers like IE6, Firefox 2.x, Chrome 3 or Safari 2 starting with Google Docs and Google Sites editor from March 1st, 2010.
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5 Security Enhancements in Chrome
Google has added five security enhancements to Chrome in order to make browsing more secure: cross-documents message posting, Strict Transport Security, Origin and X-Frame-Options header fields, and Reflective XSS Filter. Some of these features have already been or are to be implemented by other browsers.
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8.8.8.8, A DNS Number for Faster Browsing
Google is offering two DNS servers for public use, namely 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, in an attempt to further speed up browsing.
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IE and Firefox Will Be Using DirectX for Rendering
Both IE and Mozilla teams are currently working on using DirectX/GPU for page rendering while Google is considering it.
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A .NET Security Vulnerability Has Affected Firefox
A security vulnerability that has hit Internet Explorer through .NET has also hit Firefox. The culprit for Firefox, a .NET add-on, has been put on Mozilla’s blocked list.
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Embed Python, Ruby, and XAML directly into your HTML with Gestalt
JavaScript is a language that is showing its age. A lot of developers now prefer to work with languages like Ruby or Python, falling back on JavaScript only for the browser. Sure there were attempts to support other languages in the browser like VBScript, but they never really took off. Well Microsoft is trying again, this time with Python and Ruby.
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The “IE6 No More” Campaign
Once the most prominent browser on the web, IE6 has drawn lots of criticism for it compatibility and security issues culminating with the “IE6 No More” campaign supported by web companies tired of spending extra time coding specifically for IE6.
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HyperSpace, a Browsing Environment with a Small Footprint
Phoenix Technologies has created HyperSpace, a small OS that supports only browsing. HyperSpace precedes Google Chrome OS which is supposed to offer the same functionality with some differences.
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Microsoft’s Web Browser-Based OS: Gazelle
Google isn’t the only company toying with the idea of a secure operating system based around a web browser. Back in February, researches at Microsoft revealed details about Gazelle. Gazelle claims to be “a multi-principal OS construction of a secure web browser. Gazelle’s Browser Kernel exclusively provides cross-principal protection and fair sharing of all system resources.”