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With draft standard, 3D Web closer to reality

News WebGL has moved from an idea at Mozilla and the Khronos Group to a draft standard for the 3D Web. Don't expect a browser-based Call of Duty just yet, though.

Friday, December 11 2009 09:17 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web sites, Opera Software ASA, VRML, Details, Web sites, WebGL, Web Browser, O3D, Google Chrome

The Intel Reader: As big a boon as Braille?

News Intel's device for the blind or visually impaired combines a digital camera, OCR, and speech synthesis, with impressive results.

Tuesday, December 08 2009 11:03 AM

Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, People With Disability, Intel Corp., Intel Reader, software, Web sites, Optical Character Recognition, Braille, vision

Google brings Chrome beta to Mac, Linux

News Search giant issues the first beta versions of its browser for Mac OS X and Linux. Maturity could spread adoption, and the stable version is due in a month.

Wednesday, December 09 2009 10:12 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Chrome 4.0, Web Page, Web Browser, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Beta

Latest Firefox beta offers file-handling feature

News The File interface, a draft standard, is designed to give browsers better uploads. Firefox 3.6 beta 4 supports the technology.

Tuesday, December 01 2009 02:01 PM

Tags: Web browsers, network, Web Browser, W3C, Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Corp., Web Application, Beta, Mozilla Firefox, API

Opera Mini and Mobile betas bestowed with sync

News Opera Mini 5 beta, for Java phones, and nearly-identical Opera Mobile 10 beta, for Symbian and Windows Mobile, get an update that includes both Opera Link and download manager.

Thursday, December 03 2009 12:33 AM

Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Opera Software ASA, RIM BlackBerry, download manager, Opera browser, desktop browser, Java Phone, Phone, mobile

WebGL slips into Chrome, too, for 3D Web

News Google's browser is the latest to get support for a nascent standard for building accelerated 3D graphics into Web pages and Web applications.

Monday, October 12 2009 11:05 AM

Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Web browsers, Khronos Group, Web sites, Web 2.0, WebGL, Web Browser, Web-based Application

With IE 9, Microsoft fights back in browser wars

News By showing first glimpses of technology in Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft also showing it's serious about building competitive browser.

Thursday, November 19 2009 11:55 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Acceleration Feature, Direct2D, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Graphics, Microsoft Internet Explorer, performance, Hardware, JavaScript

New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes

News Third beta imposes new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it. And feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7.

Thursday, November 19 2009 10:17 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Page, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., Beta, release candidate, Mozilla Firefox, performance

Google set to promote Chrome extensions

News One of the standout features of Chrome 4.0 is customization through extensions. Google appears on the brink of launching a gallery to showcase them.

Thursday, November 19 2009 09:49 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Google Inc., Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox

Will new browsers really upgrade the Web?

News The latest browsers sport many hot new features. But the avant-garde must reckon with inconsistent standards and slow adoption.

Thursday, June 18 2009 09:31 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Web Application, Adobe Systems Inc., Web Developer, video, Web browsers, HTML 5, HTML

Safari challenges Chrome on Web app speed

News Google's browser rules the roost when it comes to JavaScript speed, but Safari is the first to come anywhere close on Google's V8 benchmark.

Wednesday, February 25 2009 08:41 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser, Web Application, Beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, performance, Apple Safari

Mozilla not interested in building Firefox OS

News Does Firefox backer want to turn its open-source browser into the basis for an operating system a la Google's Chrome OS? Not for now at least.

Friday, November 20 2009 09:31 AM

Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Google Inc., Mitchell Baker, Operating System, revenue, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Mozilla, graphics group seek to build 3D Web

News Khronos Group establishes a group to standardize how Web apps can use accelerated 3D graphics. Expect a draft specification and maybe a Firefox plug-in within a year.

Wednesday, March 25 2009 11:00 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Graphics, Online Game, Mozilla Corp., Web Application, 3D, Language Performance, Hardware, JavaScript

Google tries jump-starting 3D Web with O3D

News An open-source browser plug-in gives games and other Web applications the ability to take advantage of a computer's graphics chip.

Wednesday, April 22 2009 09:50 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Google Inc., Web Browser, Graphics, O3D, 3D, CAD, performance, OpenGL

Firefox 3.5 'Web upgrade' planned for end of June

News With Firefox 3.5, Mozilla hopes to "upgrade the Web" with new features such as faster performance, built-in video, and new graphics technology.

Wednesday, June 17 2009 11:16 AM

Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, release candidate, built-In, Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Corp., JavaScript, Web