Some new things that are landing in FireFox are hardware accelerated image scaling as well as hardware accelerated rounded corners.
It's the little things, really.
Little things like FireFox getting denied from Windows RT.
This article is for people who are passionate about the web.
If you haven't been living under a rock you've probably heard about the whole -webkit- scandal that's going about. I won't link to anything because I really don't know where to start, but here's my take on how this will play out.
Browser vendors will have to weigh "backwards compatibility" against standards. How this might end is badly. Remember the first browser to reach version 10? It was not Chrome, it was Opera.
When Opera changed their UserAgent string to Opera/10.00 half the internet started breaking becuase of a bad sniffing technique. The developers only had to make a few keystrokes' worth of changes to their codebase to adjust the new version 10.
What happened in reality was Opera had to change its UserAgent string to Opera/9.80 and add a separate Version/10.00 pair at the end. This is still in there today, and will probably remain there for quite a while.
Think this is a horrible hack? Now imagine -webkit-transform being interpreted by Firefox.
I hope it won't come to that, but I really think it might.
I am sometimesfrequently required to use my Facebook User ID. To get this, I navigate to graph.facebook.com/hdragomir and just copy it from there. I do pretty much the same when I need someone else's fbuid.
Basically, I go to graph.facebook.com/<your-vanity-name-here>
Are you doing something else?
I really enjoy having them, but they need a bit of work.
Let me paint you a picture:
You've lined up 8 videos and start watching them. You go to fullscreen and watch a couple of videos.
Youtube gets points here for the smooth transition between videos while in fullscreen.
Now, you need to exit fullscreen. In the middle of the video. With the video still running because it's a standup, say.
It totally kills the mood. No matter how fast you connection is, you still get a second of pause.
The funny thing is that the flash player is already playing the correct video. All they need is to repaint the DOM. They could do that on the fly, with Javascript. And they could use pushState to change the URL, as well.
Youtube are already doing a great job with Cosmic Panda, I wonder when they'll give this some attention.
The real revolution is that you get to make waves, not just ride them.
https://speakerdeck.com/u/hdragomir/p/fast-mobile-uis
This is just support for a talk I'm giving at Berlin.js
