Eye Dropper is my new favourite Google Chrome extension
Ever wanted the hex code of a particular color of a particular webpage or image? Do you also use Google Chrome? Eye Dropper is the completely awesome solution that does everything you could possibly want a color picker extension to do. I can’t recommend this enough.
Firefox 4 Mockups, Linux, Windows & Mac (Quick Thoughts)
I’m quickly becoming a fan of Stephen Horlanders design work on Firefox 4: You may click to embiggen. Some quick thoughts: We should keep in mind these are mockups. There’s a very good chance not all these three images are updated with all the latest decisions being made at Mozilla. For instance, the “Page” and [...]
An Early Look At Google Chrome Web-Apps
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Googles Chrome browser. Which is why I followed Google’s instructions on enabling web-apps in the newest dev builds of Chrome. Here’s what I found out: Making a Chrome web-app is as simple bundling a few icons with a URL in a .js file. Which incidentally is also [...]
VP8 Video Codec Rebranded WebM, Also Open Sourced
It’s what many of you hoped for: Google has open sourced VP8. It’s all documented on the new official webpage, The WebM Project. Some quick thoughts and notes: YouTube is converting all its video to the WebM codec, starting with 720p video. You can opt in to the beta HTML5 version of YouTube today, and play [...]
The Branding Of Google Chrome
Google is firing all its cannons with its Chrome browser. It’s out for all the major platforms, and it’s even got a dedicated operating system in development. Part of such a cross-platform effort is a strong need for visual branding — a unique look which will subconsciously tell the user which browser they’re using. For [...]
More On WebKit 2
WebKit2 is not a fork of WebKit: WebKit2 is NOT a rewrite of the whole WebKit stack. Webcore will continue mostly unchanged, and all ports currently building on top of it will keep working. It is also not a fork – the code lives in the same tree as the current version of WebKit, which [...]