Almost everything that makes up the WWW is a hack. HTML, HTTP, SMTP, are all antiquated technologies. These old technologies were engineered with the sole intention of delivering and sharing text documents. Early web browsers and e-mail clients shared this same basic vision in the beginning. Even today, most media requires plug-ins and other technologies [...]
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Last edited on December 31, 2008 It’s time for Haskell in the Web browser.
Last edited on December 31, 2008 JavaScript has been around for over a decade now. During that time, we’ve seen it implemented by every major browser vendor, and thus we’ve seen it become widely used by many Web sites. We’ve even seen JavaScript used in non-Web applications and uses. But JavaScript has some pretty serious drawbacks. The performance of the various [...]
Konqueror 4.0 brings some vast improvements.
Last edited on January 1, 2009 KDE 4.0 was released several days back, and thanks to the KDE Four Live CD, I was able to give it a try with very little effort. Having used it for about a day and a half now, I’d like to share some of my impressions of this new release of KDE. Specifically, I will [...]
Web browsers are limiting the benefits of multi-core CPUs.
Last edited on January 3, 2009 When it comes to purchasing consumer-grade PCs these days, it’s rare to find a system with a CPU that only has a single core. Most laptops even offer a dual-core CPU. So as software developers, we’re entering a unique era where we can start to employ parallelism in ways that would not have been practical [...]
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