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web dev news
February 2013
By Matthew Fabb
Opera
- Dropped their Presto layout engine!
- Going with WebKit for layout & V8 for JavaScript!
- Transition will be gradual various Opera
products over 2013
Layout engines
That leaves just 3 major engines:
- Trident (IE)
- Gecko (Mozilla)
- WebKit (Safari, Chrome, Android default
browser, Dolphin, Blackberry browser,
Symbian, WebOS, AIR & many more)
Mozilla?
Would Mozilla ever consider switching to WebKit?
Brendan Eich says NO!
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Even if they wanted to (they don't) it would take too long
- Switching add-ons, their Awesome Bar, privacy & security & more would take over a year
- Firefox would stagnate too much in the process of a switch
Next Gen Layout Engine
- On top of Gecko they are working on next gen layout engine called Servo
- Servo focuses on both multicore CPU & massively parallel GPU
- Believe that WebKit will hit a wall in speed when it comes to future hardware of more CPU & GPU cores
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Also a belief that the web
NEEDS
multiple implementations rather than a monoculture
Internet Explorer 10
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Now out for Windows 7
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Been out for Windows 8 since last October
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Microsoft claims IE10 is 20% faster than IE9 via "real world tests"
- No Vista or XP support coming
- Flash Player is not embedded like it is for Windows 8
Adobe EDGE Update!
Adobe Reflow was released!!
Still very early beta (alpha?)
Sprint 16
Currently can only "preview" HTML but cannot export
Cannot import HTML or CSS
WebKit only
Adobe Edge Animate
Updated to 1.5
Adds CSS Filters
CSS gradients
Edge Web Fonts
Better preloading assets
New Colour Picker
# of other small features
Adobe Edge Code
Currently at preview #3
Native menus
Code hinting for CSS
Highlighting for Python
# of other small features
Dreamweaver update
Improvements to Fluid Guids
Edge Web Fonts integration
Additional HTML5 support
Title
WebRTC
WebRTC (Real-Time Communication) is now in Firefox & Chrome
Both teams demoed functionality with a video call
Bits & Bytes
jQuery Mobile 1.3 is out!
jQuery 1.9.1 is out (bug fixes) !
jQuery 2.0 beta 2 shipping shortly
Chrome added a Web Speech API to Chrome 25
front end web dev news feb 2013
By Matthew Fabb
