The Fruit of Knowledge
Posts tagged open web
W3C completes HTML5 definition, starts interoperability testing
Dec 18th
Long heralded as the darling of the open web, the standards for HTML5 haven’t actually been finalized by the W3C — it was just recently that the international consortium pledged to get it done by 2014. So it’s good to hear the group just hit a significant milestone on the road to that goal by publishing the full definition for the spec this Tuesday. With that accomplished, the next step is interoperability and performance testing to make sure HTML5 plays nice with any and all browsers, servers and other web tools. The W3C hopes that this will bring “broad HTML 5 interoperability” by 2014, which fits right in to the organization’s philosophy of bringing the entirety of the web — however divisive — together.
Filed under: Internet
Via: The Inquirer
Source: W3C
W3C teams with Apple, Google, Mozilla on WebPlatform, a guide to building the open web (video)
Oct 8th
The World Wide Web Consortium might just be the United Nations of web development, as it’s bringing together some frequent enemies to fight for a common cause through WebPlatform.org. The collaboration will see Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia and Opera pool educational resources to create a comprehensive, frequently updated guide to creating HTML5 and other content for the open web. The companies’ instructional oversight is just the start, however — visitors will have chats and forums to devise their own solutions, and they’ll even have a better than usual chance at influencing mid-development web standards. It may be some time before we’ll see the first fruits of the organization’s work, but we’re already happy to see technology companies set aside some of their differences.
Filed under: Internet, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, Google, HP, Facebook
W3C teams with Apple, Google, Mozilla on WebPlatform, a guide to building the open web (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink 
9 to 5 Google | 
WebPlatform.org | Email this | Comments
SEMA: Local Motors updates 2012 Rally Fighter, launches The Forge
Nov 3rd
Filed under: SEMA Show, Coupe, Performance, Technology, Specialty, Design/Style, Off-Road, MISC
Local Motors and its team of online community members are hard at work refining the Rally Fighter for 2012, and the list of changes for the new model year have officially been announced here at SEMA.
Probably the biggest piece of news is the replacement of the older three-link (with Watt’s link) rear suspension setup with a better four-link arrangement. The buyer can now choose from a stock Ford 8.8-inch rear end or opt instead for a welded-up 9-inch. Up front, a new set of billet A arms round out the suspension updates.
In addition to the new-model-year changes, the crew at Local Motors also announced The Forge, a “collaborative vehicular development platform [that] will allow OEMs, aftermarket companies, educational institutions and hobbyists to engage the Local Motors community for ideas, design, engineering development and more.”
The open web-based development platform will go live on 11.11.11, as will a new CAD software program from Siemens and Local Motors. Read all about the updates to the 2012 Rally Fighter as well as The Forge in the press releases after the break… and stay tuned for some exciting Rally Fighter content right here on Autoblog in the coming weeks.
Continue reading Local Motors updates 2012 Rally Fighter, launches The Forge
Local Motors updates 2012 Rally Fighter, launches The Forge originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | Email this | Comments
Mozilla planning a Chrome OS-like operating system for phones and tablets
Jul 26th
The jury is still out on whether Chromebooks will sell like hotcakes (we’re guessing not), but no matter to Mozilla. The organization behind Firefox has plans to develop its own operating system for mobile devices — a clear shot across the bow at Google’s browser-based Chrome OS. In a page on Mozilla’s own wiki, a handful of senior developers announced their intentions to create a “complete, standalone operating system for the open web” running HTML5 apps. The OS, codenamed “Boot to Gecko,” will be designed with tablets and handsets in mind, says Mike Shaver, the foundation’s VP of technical strategy. And here’s the fascinating part: the OS will rely on Google’s own Android drivers and kernel to boot the device. In a Google Groups discussion thread, the lead devs said they chose Android over a Linux stack since so many device makers have focused their efforts on Android, and so it makes sense to “reuse its lower layers.” Still, they insist that they otherwise intend to borrow from it as little as possible. Obviously, don’t hold your breath for Firebooks, as the project’s very much in its infancy, but in the meantime there’s some mighty interesting conversation happening in that discussion thread about Mozilla’s lofty end game: breaking “the stranglehold of proprietary devices over the mobile device world.”
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Mozilla planning a Chrome OS-like operating system for phones and tablets originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink 
SiliconFilter | 
Mozilla (wiki), (Google Groups forum) | Email this | Comments
