What is Googling Gearing Up For?

All the communication around Google Gears seems to center on its role in adding offline storage capabilities to the browser. In reality, Google’s vision for the product goes far beyond this. On his personal blog, Gears developer Dion Almaer spills the beans on the sprawling array of services they are planning to roll out. Remember [...]

Is Web Standardization Obsolete?

Most people seem to labor under the misconception that web standardization is a well-regimented, orderly process with a clear set of rules. In particular, the uninitiated believe that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the anointed standards body for the web. Vendors get together, agree on some new markup or scripting language that eventually [...]