The Browser Platform Wars

I was chatting recently with the founder of a high-profile startup that is making strategic use of Mozilla technology. “People keep telling me that WebKit is the future,” he complained. “Have we made the wrong choice?” I did my best to reassure him of course, providing arguments that support their choice and pointing him to [...]

Browser of the Week: Flock Impressions

I’ve been using Flock all week, and I have to say that I’m pretty impressed. Flock is way out in front of the pack in driving innovation in the browser space (although Mozilla is catching up with their various Labs efforts). It’s refreshing to see a vendor thinking big and experimenting with adding all kinds [...]

Browser Trends: Business Models

Commercial web applications must overcome a vexing business dilemma: how to make money in the face of so much free competition. This is a symptom of the VC-fueled internet economy that has prevailed since the dot com days. Venture capital firms provide companies with money based on some woolly half-baked business model but with the [...]

Browser of the Week: Flock

I’ll be using the Flock 1.1 this week as part of my occasional Browser of the Week series, posting my thoughts and impressions on Friday. Please leave a comment if there are particular features of Flock that I absolutely positively must put through their paces. I’m definitely planning to try out as much of their [...]

Browser Bits and Bobs for May 7, 2008

Microsoft ships XP Service Pack 3 with continued support for Internet Explorer 6. Firefox wins favorite browser in the LinuxJournal Readers’ Choice Awards with 86% of votes cast. John Resig implements a complete HTML parser entirely in JavaScript. Multiple interfaces are provided including SAX and a DOM builder. Amazing. Flock wins a Webby award in [...]

Flock 1.1 Now in Public Beta

I’m keen to put Flock 1.1 through its paces, now that the beta is publicly available. It looks like this will be the next Browser of the Week, perhaps as soon as next week. Naturally I’ll keep in mind that it’s still a beta product.

New Version of Flock in the Pipeline

Evan Hamilton, Flock’s “Community Ambassador”, gives a brief overview of the features planned for Flock 1.1, which is slated for release in a few weeks. Though I haven’t actually tried the browser for a shamefully long time, I’ve always been a big fan and proponent of Flock’s vision. I’m still not convinced that creating an [...]