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Chrome 36 with Revamped Incognito
Google released Chrome 36 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android which includes some additions and improvements as well as various bug fixes and performance tweaks.
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Chrome Dev Editor: A New JavaScript and Dart IDE
A Google engineer has made available Chrome Dev Editor (CDE) during Google IO 2014, a new IDE for creating Chrome Apps and web apps for the desktop and mobile devices. CDE supports JavaScript and Dart.
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Updated, Open Sourced Status.IE Site Boosts Multiplatform Web Development
The Status.IE project provides compatibility information for 4 major web browsers, allowing developers to see which features are available based on the browsers they need to support. Microsoft has open-sourced both the code serving the project and the data it offers, making it easy for developers to further their own development projects.
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Challenges Performing Background Compilation in V8
This article includes details on the recently background compilation introduced in V8, Chrome’s JavaScript engine.
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Google Wants to Speed Up the Internet with QUIC
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections, pronounced 'quick') is a multiplexing transport protocol running over UDP with the main goal to have 0-RTT connectivity overhead.
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Deploying Chrome Apps on Android&iOS with Cordova 3.3.0
Developer can now deploy Chrome apps on Android and iOS with Apache Cordova 3.3.0.
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Chrome to Drop Support for NPAPI Plugins Including Java, Silverlight, and Unity
Stating that “NPAPI’s 90s-era architecture has become a leading cause of hangs, crashes, security incidents, and code complexity”, Google intends to remove the Netscape Plug-in API. This is the plug-in technology used host application runtimes such as Silverlight, Java, and Unity. They are beginning the process in January by disabling all plugins not a small whitelist.
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One Less Browser Engine: Opera Switches to WebKit
Opera will release new versions of their browser for mobile and desktop based on WebKit. They are also going to integrate Chromium.
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Google Announces PageSpeed Insights 2.0
Google has released PageSpeed Insights 2.0 with an interface redesign, extensions for Chrome and Firefox, automatic page optimizations with an online service or via SDK, an API, support for mobile devices and more analysis rules.
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Yahoo! Axis! Of! Incompetence!
Yahoo! have released a search plugin Axis which allows clients to search for web content with graphical previews rendered on the server. Unfortunately, they also leaked their private Chrome signing key with the Chrome extension. Read on for more.
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Jetty gets Speedy
The Jetty project recently announced that Jetty now has SPDY support. InfoQ caught up with Greg Wilkins and Simone Bordet to find out more about the protocol, and what advantages it may bring.
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Mozilla Mulls H.264 Support
Historically, Mozilla has rejected the use of non-open codecs (such as H.264), a subject that has been covered before on InfoQ. The main reason is ideological; H.264 is covered by patents and licensed by the MPEG-LA. Could this stance be softening, with the proposal to allow platform-provided codecs for video support?
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Google Dart Roundup: Dartium Binaries Available, I/O Libraries, Book and Docs
The first binaries of Dartium, Chrome with a built-in Dart VM, are now available for download. Dartium has the beginnings of debugging support in Dev Tools. Meanwhile, a lot of documentation resources have become available both from Google and outside.
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Preview the Next JavaScript in Google Chrome
Google Chrome and V8 now support some of the features planned for the next version of JavaScript, known as ECMAScript 3.1 “Harmony”. To try out these features you can use dev channel release of Chrome with the “Experimental JavaScript features” flag turned on.
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Joel Webber on Porting Angry Birds to HTML5
Joel Webber, co-creator of the Google Web Toolkit, held the session Angry Birds on HTML5 at GOTO Aarhus 2011, recorded and published by InfoQ. We interviewed Webber to find out more details on porting the popular game Angry Birds to Google Chrome and HTML 5.