Posts tagged Tech
Steve Souders on CSS selector performace. Very interesting for developers.
It’s clear that CSS selectors with a key selector that matches many elements can noticeably slow down web pages.
Dave Mosher on static design. It’s a healthy read for both designer and developers.
Developers might have insight into usability based on past experience that can go unheard because they aren’t included in the design process, and designers might know what the best way to develop a certain feature might be.
Ian Hickson on the Video and Audio codecs in HTML5
Apple refuses to implement Ogg Theora in Quicktime by default (as used by Safari), citing lack of hardware support and an uncertain patent landscape.
Google has implemented H.264 and Ogg Theora in Chrome, but cannot provide the H.264 codec license to third-party distributors of Chromium, and have indicated a belief that Ogg Theora’s quality-per-bit is not yet suitable for the volume handled by YouTube.
Opera refuses to implement H.264, citing the obscene cost of the relevant patent licenses.
Mozilla refuses to implement H.264, as they would not be able to obtain a license that covers their downstream distributors.
Microsoft has not commented on their intent to support at all.
Bummer :(
Chinese BlackBerry clone calls itself BlockBerry | BlackBerry Cool
Who need a Blackberry when you can get a Blockberry? :)
Pretty impressive.
I wonder if the simulator features Somali pirates.
Ian Fette on sandboxing on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.
On Windows, getting a process sandboxed in a way that’s useful to us is a pretty complicated affair. The relevant source code consists of over 100 files…
Starting a sandbox (on the mac) involves a single call to sandbox_init() specifying which resources to block for a specific process.
