When I see comparisons of HTML5 to native apps I get the feeling that the way we measure failure and success could give statisticians a heart attack. Take Andrea Giammarchi’s The difficult road to vine via web as an example. In this piece Andrea, who really knows his stuff tries to re-create the hot app […]

I am not a big fan of the cold. I like spring weather with sensible temperatures. The last 3 days I spent in Kiruna, Sweden, which is very high up north indeed and right now running at around -20 degrees centigrade. That means that the inside of your nose freezes so that you think you […]

Opera today announced that they are ditching their own Presto rendering engine for Webkit and V8. More details as to what that means for developers are on the ODIN blog. The reasons are reasons you expect a commercial company to give: To provide a leading browser on Android and iOS, this year Opera will make […]

Hello and welcome. You might have come here from my Twitter profile or because of a tweet I sent you. Here I will quickly say and retain for re-use what my Twitter usage is about and how both you and I can enjoy what I do here. You could call it my Twitter manifesto, but […]

Yesterday Edgeconf attracted about 150 (my guess) bleeding edge web technology enthusiasts to come to the Facebook offices in London, England and listen to seven panels of experts. Over the day we covered Offline storage, Network detection and optimisation, Performance, Responsive Layout, Input formats, Privileged access to hardware and Testing and Tooling. The format was […]