Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 256
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a first look at Firefox 4 Beta 1 and sees several noteworthy HTML5 integrations that bring Firefox 4 'that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop.' Beyond the Chrome-like UI, Firefox 4 adds several new features that 'open up new opportunities for AJAX and JavaScript programmers to add more razzle-dazzle and catch up with Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, and other plug-ins,' Wayner writes. 'Firefox 4 also adds an implementation of the Websockets API, a tool for enabling the browser and the server to pass data back and forth as needed, making it unnecessary for the browser to keep asking the server if there's anything new to report.'"
Peter Wayner (Score:4, Funny)
Have I missed any? (Score:3, Funny)
::grumble grumble:: Memory leak
::grumble grumble:: Bloated
::grumble grumble:: Not nearly as good as it once was
::grumble grumble:: Most development money comes from Google
::grumble grumble:: Not as good as Gecko/Opera/Safari/Chrome/etc
Re:Peter Wayner (Score:3, Funny)
I left a cloud on your mom's desktop last night.
Re:Have I missed any? (Score:3, Funny)
Plugins?
Why do you refer to Flash in plural?
Re:Does what to HTML 5? (Score:5, Funny)
At any rate, lets all change the standards again, so all those old computers that can't run anything later than Firefox 2 have to be shipped off to some foreign dump where they leak poisonous chemicals in to the drinking water.
It's the American way.
Re:Have I missed any? (Score:4, Funny)
That's a weird way to spell "woosh"...
Re:Peter Wayner (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Does what to HTML 5? (Score:1, Funny)
oh noes a fast moving industry is moving fast once again. whatever shall we do.
Re:Sure... (Score:5, Funny)
FireFox, IceWeasel, ThunderBird, Breezy Badger, Snow Leopard.
Just accept the entire technology industry is run by furries.
Re:Have I missed any? (Score:4, Funny)
And you should see what happens when he has to harvest his Farmville.
Re:desktop as a document? (Score:3, Funny)
Things change.
Heresy!