Mar 29 Mar 2011     

Mozilla ha rilasciato la nuova versione del suo browser Firefox 4 per Android e Maemo.  Firefox per dispositivi mobili è offerto in oltre 10 lingue, il download per dispositivi Android è possibile su Android market, per Maemo è possibile a questa pagina.

Firefox is up to three times faster than the stock browser on Android. Major enhancements to the JavaScript engine make everything from page load speed to graphics to overall performance snappy in Firefox.

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What’s New in Firefox for Android and Maemo:

Streamlined Interface

  • Focus on Web content: Features like tabs, one-touch bookmarking and browser controls that stow away when not in use help users focus on the websites they visit

Browse More, Type Less

  • Awesome Screen: Type less with easy access to history, bookmarks and open tabs
  • Save to PDF: Capture important websites, like directions or a boarding pass, to view offline
  • Share Page: Share websites via apps like email, Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader and more
  • Add Search Engine: Customize your search engine list

Private and Secure Synchronization

  • Firefox Sync: Access Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices with secure end-to-end encryption

Most Customizable:

  • Firefox offers thousands of ways for users to customize the features, functionality and look of their mobile Web browser with Firefox Add-ons

Cutting Edge Tools for Web Developers:

  • Firefox improves existing tools like CSS, Canvas and SVG to enable developers to make exciting Web pages
  • HTML5 support in Firefox for Android and Maemo includes Location-Aware Browsing, device orientation, accelerometer, desktop notifications and more
  • The JavaScript engine incorporates the new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, along with enhancements to the existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey’s interpreter for faster page-load speed and better performance of Web apps and games

 
Mer 23 Mar 2011     

Hewlett-Packard ha rilasciato il SDK (software Development Kit) per webOS 2.1, sistema operativo per dispositivi mobili. È possibile effettuare il download del SDK da questa pagina, le note di rilascio sono disponibili a questa pagina.

New webOS Features & APIs
  • Just Type. Integrate into the webOS Just Type interface, enabling users search within your app or use your app to perform quick actions.
  • Exhibition. Implement support for Exhibition to inform, entertain and delight your users when their devices are docked on the Touchstone charger.
  • JavaScript Services with Node.js. Write background services in JavaScript. Services run in the popular Node.js runtime environment, which is built into webOS 2.
  • Synergy APIs. Integrate deeply into the webOS user experience by developing Synergy connectors for Contacts, Calendar or Messaging.
  • HTML5 Enhancements. CSS gradients, enhanced Canvas support, Web Storage and more. Web sites can also take advantage of HTML5 Geolocation and Application Cache.
  • Key Manager. Utilize new key management and cryptographic functionality.
  • Media Capture. New APIs for capturing photos, videos and audio recordings.
  • Bluetooth SPP. Implement wireless data transfer to and from Bluetooth-enabled devices, using the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (SPP).
  • Zeroconf (Bonjour). Discover devices on a local network.
  • Media Indexer. Access the index of audio and video files stored on the device.

 

 
Mer 23 Mar 2011     

Mozilla ha annunciato il rilascio di Firefox 4, la versione finale arriva dopo il rilascio di 12 versioni beta e due release candidate.

Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is proud to release Mozilla Firefox 4, the newest version of the popular, free and open source Web browser.

Secondo Mozilla la versione 4 è la versione più veloce di Firefox, Firefox 4 è da due a sei volte più veloce di Firefox 3.
Firefox 4 è dotato anche di un nuovo add-ons manager, supporto per HTML5, App Tabs. Il motore JavaScript incorpora il nuovo compilatore JägerMonkey JIT. Con Firefox 4 un eventuale problema con Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime o Silverlight di Microsoft non causerà il blocco del browser. Se uno di questi plugin si dovesse bloccare non influenzerebbe il resto di Firefox, sarà sufficiente ricaricare la pagina per riavviare il plugin.
Firefox 4 è disponibile in oltre 80 lingue per sistemi Windows, Linux, Max OS X. Il download è possibile da questa pagina.

What’s New in Firefox 4:

Fastest Firefox Ever

  • Performance: Firefox is up to six times faster than the previous release. With improved start-up and page load times, speedy Web app performance and hardware accelerated graphics, Firefox is optimized for rich, interactive websites.

Streamlined Interface

  • App Tabs: give a permanent home to frequently visited sites like Web mail, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr.
  • Switch to Tab: easily find and switch to any open tab from your Awesome Bar without opening duplicate tabs.
  • Panorama: drag and drop tabs into manageable groups to save time while navigating many open tabs.

Private and Secure Synchronization

  • Firefox Sync: access your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and form data across multiple computers and mobile devices.

Most Customizable

  • New Add-ons Manager: easily discover and install more than 200,000 add-ons to customize the features, functionality and look of Firefox.

Private and Secure

  • Do Not Track: Firefox is leading the Web towards a universal standard Do Not Track feature that allows users to opt-out of tracking used for behavioral advertising.
  • Firefox puts privacy first, fixing flaws in some Web standards to prevent others from accessing your browser history.
  • HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS): automatically establishes secure connections to stop "man in the middle" attacks and keep sensitive data safe from interception during the log-in process.
  • Content Security Policy (CSP): prevent cross-scripting attacks by allowing sites to explicitly tell the browser which content is legitimate.

Cutting Edge Tools for Web Developers:

  • The JavaScript engine incorporates the new JägerMonkey JIT compiler, along with enhancements to the existing TraceMonkey JIT and SpiderMonkey’s interpreter for faster page-load speed and better performance of Web apps and games.
  • HTML5 support in Firefox includes hardware accelerated, high-definition video (WebM), 3D graphics, offline data storage, professional typography, touchscreen interfaces and the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound and more.
  • Firefox 4 also improves existing tools like CSS, Canvas and SVG to enable developers to make exciting Web pages.
  • Firefox provides uninterrupted browsing when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these plugins crashes or freezes, it won’t affect the rest of Firefox. Simply reload the page to restart the plugin.
 
Mar 22 Mar 2011     

Opera ha rilasciato la nuova versione del suo browser per dispositivi mobili Opera Mobile 11 per sistemi Android e Symbian.

Big day at the Opera! We are launching Opera Mobile 11 for Android and Symbian/S60. Download now direct to your device from  m.opera.com, or get it in the Android Market.

Features
  • Modernized new user interface
  • New UI optimized for tablet devices
  • Faster framerates when panning and zooming
  • No checkerboard, ever
  • Text stays sharp during zooming
  • Improved text-wrap on zoom
  • Smart-tap, auto-zoom and highlights links if ambiguous link click
  • Incremental zooming for devices w/o multi-touch
  • Buttons for jumping to the top/bottom of the page
  • Haptic feedback (if supported in hardware)
  • Share URL on social networks, email etc
  • Improved Geolocation support
  • Session restore

Rendering
  • Presto 2.7.81
  • JIT for greatly improved Javascript performance (was supported in 10.1 on some Symbian devices)
  • Adobe Flash support (Android only, Flash player available separately in Android Market)
  • Click-to-play, load Flash content on demand only
  • Application Cache
  • WebStorage and WebDatabase
  • DOM touch and multi-touch events
  • HTML5 Audio/Video
  • Support for CSS @viewport
  • Improved support for meta viewport
  • Support for Web Open Font Format (WOFF)
  • Support for Arabic ligatures
  • Improved form fields skin
 
Mer 16 Mar 2011     

Le proposte di Oracle relative a Java Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) sono state approvate dalla JCP (Java Community Process, comitato esecutivo per Java SE/EE). La votazione, il cui esito è indicato a questa pagina, si è conclusa con 13 voti favorevoli su 13, 12 "Yes with no comment" e un "Yes with comment", da parte di IBM.
Una delle principali novità che si vuole introdurre in Java EE 7 riguarda il multitenancy, importante per gli ambienti cloud. Si cercherà di introdurre il supporto per HTML5

We expect the Java EE 7 platform to add first-class support for some of the recent developments in the web space, including HTML5 and Web Sockets

Alla JCP sono anche state proposte altre Java Specification Request (JSR), la 340 (Java Servlet 3.1), la 341 (Expression Language 3.0), la 343 (Java Message Service 2.0) e la 344 (Java Server Faces 2.2).
Il rilascio di Java EE 7 è previsto per il terzo trimestre del 2012. Per quanto riguarda Java EE 8 è già stata rilasciata una roadmap, ed è possibile che sia rilasciata entro il 2013.

 
Mar 15 Feb 2011     

Le specifiche di HTML5 dovrebbero vedere la luce nel 2014, ed entro il 22 maggio di quest'anno è previsto il "last call". Lo rende noto il W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) specificando la modifica alla carta del HTML Working Group con la presenza delle nuove milestone

W3C today extended the charter of the HTML Working Group with clear milestones for HTML5, the cornerstone of W3C's Open Web Platform for application development. In May 2011, the Working Group will advance HTML5 to "Last Call," an invitation to communities inside and outside W3C to confirm the technical soundness of the specification. The group will then shift focus to gathering implementation experience. W3C is developing a comprehensive test suite to achieve broad interoperability for the full specification by 2014, the target date for Recommendation.

La carta del HTML Working Group contiene un elenco dei documenti che andranno a costituire il nuovo standard

The following is a non-restrictive list of the documents that are part of the deliverables of the Working Group:

L'ultima versione di HTML disponibile è la 4.01 resa pubblica il 24 dicembre 1999.

 
Ven 11 Feb 2011     

Microsoft ha rilasciato la release candidate della nuova versione del suo browser Internet Explorer 9.

The IE9 RC includes a number of important improvements consistent with our vision of delivering an all-around fast browser, one that puts the focus on your sites, strengthens our commitment to privacy and security, and delivers on our the commitment to developers to enable them to use the same markup and site-ready HTML5. For example, the IE RC includes:

  • Significant performance improvements in browser speed which, according to the WebKit SunSpider test, is now 35% faster than the IE9 Beta. Coupled with IE9’s innovative approach to graphics processing through hardware acceleration in Windows, IE9 is truly an all-around fast browser opening up opportunities for developers to create rich new experiences.
  • Numerous enhancements to the user interface such as new ways of handling notifications, the ability to place tabs on their own separate row, and enhancements to the already powerful site pinning functionality.
  • Support for additional HTML5 and web standards including Geolocation, and semantic tags.

Il download di IE9 RC è possibile da questa pagina.

 
Mer 12 Gen 2011     

Google ha annunciato l'intenzione di voler abbandonare il supporto al codec H.264 nel suo browser Chrome. Google sta cambiando il supporto al tag <video> di HTML5 per renderlo coerente con i codec già supportati dall'Open Chromium Project. In questo modo Google punta a favorire la diffusione di standard video open quali WebM (VP8) e Theora.
Questi cambiamenti si verificheranno nei prossimi mesi, Google li annuncia oggi per offrire agli sviluppatori che utilizzano il tag HTML <video> l'opportunità di apportare le necessarie modifiche ai loro siti.

 
Gio 16 Dic 2010     

Microsoft ha rilasciato un add-on (componente aggiuntivo o estensione o plug-in) per Firefox che permette la riproduzione di video codificati con il codec H.264 su pagine web utilizzando funzionalità presenti in Windows 7.

Il nuovo add-on "estende la funzionalità del precedente plug-in per Firefox e consente di offrire video nel formato H.264 nelle pagine web, utilizzando lo standard W3C HTML5, per lavorare su Windows. Poiché i video H. 264 sono diffusi sul web questo ponte di interoperabilità è importante per gli utenti di Firefox che sono clienti di Windows"

H.264 (MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding, MPEG-4 AVC o semplicemente AVC, Advanced Video Coding) è stato uno dei primi standard di compressione per i video ad alta definizione ed è diventato un standard de facto. Mozilla preferisce supportare altri codec come Google VP8 o WebM invece di H.264. Il download di questo add-on è possibile da questa pagina.

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