Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme
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Looks like the WebKit team are responding to the hype over Chrome and its V8 javascript engine.
Archive for Web Technologies
XHTML 1.0 Strict
I’ve now updated the blog to the XHTML 1.0 Strict web standard. This means that it should appear more uniformly across different browsers.
If anything doesn’t appear to be working, please give me a shout.
Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser
Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser.
Looks very interesting. Definitely worth a look at when it comes to the Mac.
I’ll probably test it on Windows.
There’s also a comic.
Google Gears for Safari Beta Released
Google Gears is a project from Google that allows web applications to interact with your desktop, store data locally on your machine, and perform resource-intensive JavaScript tasks asynchronously.
A few days ago, Google released a beta version of Google Gears for Safari on Mac OSX, and I’ve given it a try, mainly for WordPress:
With the release of WordPress 2.6, WordPress added a ‘Turbo’ option, available in the top right corner of the WordPress admin screen. This uses Google Gears to speed up the use of the admin interface on your blog, by caching some of the files locally. I’ve given it a try, and I think I can notice a nice speed boost, definitely useful for managing my blog, and writing on Mac Fan Boy of course!
My experience with OpenDNS
Recently, a very significant DNS threat has come to light, and one of the recommendations was to use OpenDNS as your forwarder if you cannot patch yourself. As I was using dnscache, I wasn’t vulnerable to the threat, however it did make me take a closer look at OpenDNS than I had when it was first launched. And now I’ve been using them as my primary forwarders for a week, I thought I’d talk about how I’ve got on…
OpenDNS is also a great way to get built-in phishing protection for Safari/WebKit on Mac, which is something Consumer Reports slams Apple for (see number 5) - a good way of not having to use Firefox on Mac.