Chrome is a Web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
This week, Chrome For Android M26 was announced. It has the literally-awesome ability to record video via `getUserMedia()`, but enough about making Skype irrelevant. What’s even more interesting is the new data compression feature. Which, to be clear, is experimental, has to be switched on, doesn’t apply to secure (SSL) sites, and it’s only running Read the rest…
Friday, June 10th, 2011
In a blog, Opera Software Developer Relations team member Tiffany B. Brown looks at code injection, error throwing and handling and mobile debugging. She notes Opera Dragonfly and its remote debug features provide a way to debug mobile sites from their desktop. Brown mentions WebKit’s recently added remote debugging capabilities, folded into Google Chrome developer Read the rest…
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Big news: Chrome Frame is now stable and out of beta! Today, we’re very happy to take the Beta tag off of Google Chrome Frame and promote it to the Stable channel. This stable channel release provides our most polished version of Google Chrome Frame to date, allowing users to access modern web technologies like Read the rest...
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Category: Chrome
Rick Waldron has been delving into Chrome and Chromium to find some nice updates. First, he uncovers new support for the EventSource API that allows for simple server push of DOM events as shown in this simple client and server pairing: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () { var eventSrc = new Read the rest...
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
The Chrome Web Store was shown off at the Google I/O keynote (streaming live) today along with the other great news of open codecs, great new tools, and more. I found myself torn about this one. For one, it seems tied into Chrome itself. The problem that Sundar stated (developers needing a good channel; users Read the rest...
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
It has been a busy work for Chrome, with some interesting features hitting the various "channels". Web Sockets First up, we have Web Socket support being turned on by default on the developer channel. If you want to be a really cool JS h4x0r you should write a server app using node.js. If you want Read the rest...
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Category: Chrome
Tamura Jones has published a detailed look at detecting for Chrome Frame (.xhtml huh, wow! :). He nicely aggregates a lot of the info that has been seen on Chrome Frame into one place, and his series covers: Basics of Chrome Frame: what is it? Supporting Chrome Frame: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1"> and the like Detecting Read the rest...
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
CSS is great for styling, but can be agonizing for laying out applications. There have been attempts to do JavaScript powered layout, but what about adding more semantics to CSS itself? Darrel Karisch has posted on just that, with his CSS Scripting Layout: This document describes a new set of CSS properties and object specifications Read the rest...
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Category: Chrome
Google is getting into the operating system business (again) with Google Chrome OS. Palm put WebKit at the heart of a device with webOS, the Crunchpad talked about it for the netbook, and there have long been desktop-boot-to-browser devices out there. Google Chrome OS goes deeper: Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating Read the rest...
Monday, April 20th, 2009
When Aaron talked about the Chrome extension API he mentioned how he would see if JSON Schema could help them have a JSON heavy API and allow them to easily validate. He has quickly reported back and is happy with the results. Something like this: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: chromium.tabs.createTab = function(tab, callback) { Read the rest...
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Category: Chrome, JavaScript
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: chromium.tabs.createTab({ "url": "http://www.google.com/", "selected": true, "tabIndex": 3 }); This is how you will probably create a new tab using the Chrome extensions API when it comes out. Aaron Boodman talked about the choice and how they are looking to make the APIs look more like this: I'm using the CRUD Read the rest...
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Category: Chrome
There are more details up on the Chrome wiki for how to build a Chrome extension thanks to illustrious Aaron Boodman. You create a JSON manifest in your extension directory, tell Chrome about it via --enable-extensions --load-extension="c:\myextension" (only required while extensions are in dev mode) and then you can navigate to chrome-extension://00123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456/hello_world.html assuming the manifest Read the rest...
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Category: Chrome, JavaScript
The chaps in Chrome land that know a thing or two about writing extensions are getting their design docs on and we see a new draft of how extensions mesh with the process model of Chrome: Chromium extensions will follow a multi-process architecture to share the same kind of stability and security that regular web Read the rest...
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Category: Chrome, Performance
We are seeing great work with faster JavaScript, but what about faster DOM? Or faster CSS? Or faster libraries? Or faster Regexp? Well, members of the Chrome team have announced irregexp, a faster Regexp engine for Chrome. They go into detail on what they had, what they did, and why they did it. It is Read the rest...
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Category: Chrome
Aaron Boodman posted about the new design document that discusses what the extension system should look like in Chromium and thus Google Chrome: Chromium can't be everything to all people. People use web browsers in a variety of environments and for a wide variety of jobs. Personal tastes and needs vary widely from one user Read the rest...
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
The Google folks have been doing a really good at consistently blogged about the decisions that were made as they created Chrome: Graphics in Google Chrome Google Chrome uses a library called Skia, which is also the graphics engine behind Google's Android mobile OS. The two projects share code that implements WebKit's porting API in Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
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