Via CyberNet News I came across a nice extension for Google Chrome – Atomic Bookmarks. When installed it provides a quick access to bookmarks via single click. It has a few nice features, such as quick bookmark search and saving of currently open tabs into a new folder with a single click again.
The user interface has a few minor glitches, but if you are using bookmarks in Google Chrome, this add-on is definitely recommended.
Adobe has finally seen the same light Steve Jobs did in 2010 and is now committed to putting mobile Flash player in the history books as soon as possible. Adobe will not develop and test Flash player for Android 4.1 and will now focus on a PC browsing and apps.
But we’ve heard quite a few announcements from Adobe and Google in regards to Flash in the last few month. I don’t know about you, but I am practically lost in the controversy. Between Adobe releasing the last version of Flash for Linux, Adobe releasing a sandbox version of Flash for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, and Google releasing Google Chrome for Android, I have no clue anymore.
The best I can make of it is that Adobe doesn’t want to support mobile or Linux anymore. But Google takes over with its own Flash support integrated into the Google Chrome browser, which Google supports on all desktop platforms, as well as on iOS and Android devices. So even without the Adobe we should still be able to access Flash games, porn, and navigation menus.
What do you think? Are we about to lose Flash, and if we are, what’s the alternative?
P.S.: As much as I love the idea of HTML5, I don’t think it’s just there yet.
Via The Next Web I’ve learned that according to StatCounter global stats, Google Chrome has just overtaken Microsoft Internet Explorer as the web’s most used browser. These are very good news! For the amount of pain and suffering MSIE caused to web developers all around the world during the last decade or so, it truly deserves to crash and burst in flames. That not being a realistic option, being kicked out of the web slowly, but surely seems like a good alternative.
I’m a Google fan, there is no reason to hide it. And this is one of the reasons. They are setting a good example to follow.
Open sourcing company products changes the way code is written. The moment programmers know someone else will be looking at their code, they start paying more attention as to what and how they write. Paying money to outsiders for discovering bugs with company code is like the next level of Open Source Software. Just open source gives the possibility to review. Money provide a good incentive to.
TechChrunch points out that Native Client is coming built into Google Chrome 14:
As Google notes on their Chrome Blog blog today, the latest beta version of Chrome (version 14) has Native Client built-in. Their implementation allows for C and C++ code to be executed inside of the browser while maintaining the security that a web technology like JavaScript offers.
This is a big deal. This is a bridge between system software and web applications.