Archive for November, 2010

Google tells us 20 things they’ve learned about browsers and the web via HTML5

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Google's 20 things I learned about browsersAs always, championing the rise of HTML5, Google have produced a wonderful ebook in ( surprise surprise ) HTML5.

As the title suggests the book is about the internet and its relationship with browsers, how browsers play a very important role in our internet lives and how we can use it to improve our productivity and security.

As a piece of development I personally am impressed that the entire book, is built entirely using HTML5 and not a scrap of Flash. If you check it out and if you’re as obsessive as I seem to be about how sites are constructed you’ll be able to see for yourself.

Seriously go look now, and check out the source code !

Also for the book as a book, the content is pretty good and well worth baring in mind if you need to explain the internet and related issues to less than technical types you may know, or be related to or maybe you don’t know them but on overhearing the woefully ill-informed and gratingly frustrating conversation held by a group of people who, obviously, having no real technical knowledge of their own are secretly crying out for your help and benevolent guidance, they need to know, and your going to help them know it.

Or maybe not, it might just be me.

http://www.20thingsilearned.com/

Google Docs editing comes to Android, iPhone and iPad

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Google are rolling out their new features for mobile documents editing, it’s not available for every one just yet but over the days to come we’ll  have more to see.

The update will allow users to edit all document types and not just spreadsheets, and will allow users to collaborate in near realtime. The update will be available to Android Froyo (2.2) and iSO 3.0+ users.

How Do Browsers Work?

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
Ever wondered how Browsers work?

Ever wondered how Browsers work? - Click to see Full Size

This great comic strip from Vlad Gerasimov brilliantly describes how your web browser works to bring you the internet.

Basically the user, is represented by the king, orders the browser to fetch a website who goes around negotiating with firewalls, talking to DNS servers and hosts (the wise old owls) to get the site asked for.

How iPhone, Android and Blackberry users see themselves and each other

Friday, November 5th, 2010

This image is doing the rounds on the internet at the moment and I thought it was funny. Check it out.

How iphone, Android and Blackberry users see each other

How iphone, Android and Blackberry users see each other

It’s funny because it’s true.

The Samuel Hawksby-Robinson Interview with StartUp TV

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Hi Everyone,

The interview has been edited and completed and put out for public consumption.

Check it out below.

You can also check it out on the StartUp TV website at http://www.startuptv.co.uk/directory/it/samyoul_web_design/samyoul_web_design.html