Chrome recently announced they will replacing the webkit rendering engine with a new one, named Blink. What’s up with that? To find out, Chris Wilson and Paul Irish join Jen Simmons to explain rendering engines and vendor prefixes.
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The Web Ahead #51: Rendering Engines, Vendor Prefixes & Chrome Blink
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Gillmor Gang 04.05.13: Fork You
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — spent a too-quick hour on Facebook Home, Twitter’s new deep linking Cards, and the jousting over Webkit. Individually, these developments represent interesting strategy for the major notification platforms of Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook.
But taken together, we’re seeing an important moment of truth. With Facebook pulling a “kindle” by hijacking Android’s lockscreen for its notification engine, suddenly everybody has to get in line. Apple retains its AirPlay gateway to the big screen, but it’s Facebook not Google that threatens iOS’ fit and finish. And just in time for apps, Twitter sets in motion developer innovation linking app to app and eventually the Web, Look out Cleveland, a fork is coming through.
@stevegillmor, @kteare, @kevinmarks, @borthwick, @jtaschek
Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor
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5by5 | The Web Ahead #41: Molly Holzschlag
Molly Holzschlag discusses the early days of BBSes, Gopher, and the text-only web. Accessibility, the blink tags, the Web Standard Project, how Microsoft started embracing web standards and much more.
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Malcolm Gladwell: Who Is Successful? Why?
Sometimes the way you conduct science has profound impacts on society as a whole. Malcolm Gladwell says the way we look at who is and who isn’t successful is crucial. He says it’s dangerous to think East Africans are good runners because they have an innate gene that makes them fast. Instead, you have
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blink 182
Blink 182 - all the same things
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