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What Makes Browsers Performant: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, June ...

By Christian Stockwell, Mike Belshe, Chris Blizzard

The competition amongst browsers has been intense over the past year. Come to this session to hear from the Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer teams about what they've done to make their browsers faster than ever before, and what developers can do to take advantage of these features.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

What Makes Browsers Performant - Part 2: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly ...

The competition amongst browsers has been intense over the past year. Come to this session to hear from the Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer teams about what they've done to make their browsers faster than ever before, and what developers can do to take advantage of these features.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2--New from O'Reilly: Data Access and ...

Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2--New from O'Reilly Data Access and Web Services for Rich Internet Applications --> --> Sebastopol, CA—Silverlight is a fantastic tool for designing rich interfaces that work in various browsers...

[Publish Date: January 12, 2009]

Flex 3 Cookbook: Chapter 20, Browser Communication | O'Reilly Media

This highly practical book contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an excerpt from Flex 3 Cookbook: Chapter 20, Browser Communication...

[Publish Date: November 05, 2008]

Speaker: Eric Paulos: ETech 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, March 09 - 12, ...

Eric Paulos is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously he was Senior Research Scientist at Intel in Berkeley, California where he founded the Urban Atmospheres research group - challenged to employ innovative methods to explore urban life and the future fabric of emerging technologies across public urban landscapes. His areas of expertise span a deep body of research territory in urban computing, sustainability, green design, environmental awareness, social telepresence, robotics, physical computing, interaction design, persuasive technologies, and intimate media. Eric is a leading figure in the field of urban computing and is a regular contributor, editorial board member, and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley where he helped launch a new robotic industry by...

[Publish Date: March 09, 2009]

Wikipedia for the iPhone/OLPC: storing the sum of human knowledge in 2GB: ...

By Patrick Collison

Released in early 2008 under the GPL, and downloaded over 100,000 times, the offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone was one of the most popular pre-SDK apps. Now available in 17 languages for the iPhone/OLPC, it's the main means of browsing Wikipedia for those without internet access. This talk explains the techniques and challenges involved in efficiently storing Wikipedia on a mobile device.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Programming Flex 3: Chapter 20, Embedding Flex Applications in a Browser | ...

If you want to try your hand at developing rich Internet applications with Adobe's Flex 3, and already have experience with frameworks such as .NET or Java, this is the ideal book to get you started. Now available in the Digital Media Help Center, an...

[Publish Date: November 05, 2008]

Internet Explorer 8: A Modern Development Platform: Web 2.0 Expo New York ...

By Pete LePage

With Internet Explorer 8 we usher in a new wave of browser innovation from Microsoft—all while maintaining compatibility with the today's web standards. We’ll dive into the new rendering engine within IE8, support for new HTML5 tags, CSS 2.1 compliance, DOM improvements, the developer tool bar, DOM storage, Ajax navigation, activities and Web Slices.

[Publish Date: September 16, 2008]

The Browser is the New Open Mobile Platform: OSCON 2008 - O'Reilly ...

By Chris Blizzard

With the boom in mobile internet, the new Mobile Platform may be the mobile browser. Mobile Browser expert and developer Chris Blizzard takes us on a journey through the mobile browser landscape, covering all major players and focusing a few more details on Mozilla and their proposition within the mobile landscape.

[Publish Date: July 21, 2008]

Stories on a Cloud - Distributed Browser Testing with Selenium: RailsConf ...

By Martin Sadler

Once upon a time there was a browser, now there are many, and as developers we have to ensure our web applications run on them all (well most of them anyway!). With the advent of rich internet applications, it's common to have sites which increasingly rely on Javascript. We need a way to ensure our apps run reliably whatever the browser and platform.

[Publish Date: September 02, 2008]

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Released | InsideRIA

By Andre Charland

Yesterday Microsoft released IE 8 Beta 2. It's likely the most anticipated release of the browser to date, for developers anyway. This is because they've done a lot to support CSS 2.1 and HTML 5 standards, which is everyone agrees is a good thing. It might not be perfect yet but they seem to be making good progress.

[Publish Date: August 27, 2008]