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Robert Nyman is a Technical Evangelist for Mozilla and a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web.
Google has announced that it's moving from the WebKit rendering engine to its own, named Blink, for Chromium (and thus all Google products based on WebKit).What is Blink?Blink is a rendering engine based on WebKit. For now, it will be very similar to what WebKit is, but as it develops over time, I’m sure we will see a number of differences.One good thing to notice -- as outlined in the Developer FAQ on Blink -- is that Google won’t be ...
Additional reporting by Rob HawkesWhen Opera announced that it would be moving its various browsers over to WebKit, the global tech press seemed to rejoice without really knowing what it meant. We would like to, in a factual manner, break down what the possible outcomes of having a majority of web browsers based on WebKit are, for web browser vendors and developers alike.Let’s start with some common questions:What does WebKit actually mean?The term ‘WebKit’ has been thrown around a lot ...
There is a clear trend with mobile phones that they just get bigger and bigger. Here’s my thing: I want a small smartphone.I recently tweeted about what kind of mobile phone size I’d want:I'd like a phone the size of an iPod nano. If Apple, or anyone else, creates that, I'm a given buyer!— Robert Nyman (@robertnyman) January 28, 2013I figured it would be good to write a little about it, to expand on what I mean and also to ...
People are always on the hunt for efficiency and control over the massive information flow they’re facing, and the latest fix for actually getting things done. Amidst all techniques and approaches, I thought I’d outline what at least works for me.Inbox Zero vs. Inbox FiveThe first challenge: dealing with e-mail.A number of people are hooked on Inbox Zero, although many of them haven’t looked into what it means, but instead taken it literally: i.e. unless you have zero emails in ...
In the world of social media, and with self-proclaimed experts on it popping up everywhere (some actually full of experience, some full of… something), it’s interesting to see how people act and how they value a Facebook Like.My friendsI have a few friends, acquaintances, web people and other on Facebook -- without a doubt the most diverse contact group I have in any forum. People I played in a band with in my teens, to people I’ve set next to ...
In a world of communicating with our devices, voice control seem to have gotten a lot of attention. But is that really what we want?The voice focus in productsLooking at Siri in iOS, Voice Actions for Android, Google’s Project Glass and much more, there’s an amazingly strong focus on conversing with your phone/device. There is, or about to be, voice commands for any action you can think of, and more and more are added as we speak (sorry, not that ...
Reading the heading, you’re probably thinking: “It’s a typo, it should be ‘Mobile and Social’”. But no. What I wanted to talk about is the behaviour, the phenomenon, if you will, of the complete dependency people seem to have developed for their mobile phones, and how it affects their social behaviour.Here’s my theory: with smartphones and constant connections to the internet, people have developed an addiction to being online, digitally staying in touch and up-to-date. And it really starts to ...
This morning, we were talking about the KONY 2012 movement, various reactions around it and how easy we share things without even looking at it. How our gut reaction is to act without even knowing what we’re acting on or reflect on what it means.(If you want to delve deeper into the KONY 2012 topic, you can, for instance, read Kony 2012: what’s the real story?).What we want to cover here is the greater scheme of things, social media and ...
