Motorola’s new WebUI widget platform is powered by Apple’s open source HTML renderer WebKit and is now holding a contest to lure developers to it’s platform:
This contest is for building “WebUI” widgets — a platform based on Apple’s WebKit Web browser guts — which Motorola’s Web site says is for “Motorola’s open mobile Linux platform.”
Nokia, Google(Chrome and Android), iPhone, and now Motorola all on WebKit, I wonder why…
(VIa Alley Insider.)
That would really be the most embarrassing thing ever for Microsoft. Hopefully it will happen. No matter if they stick to IE 8 or not, they need to do something about IE 6. I will never understand what’s taken them so long to upgrade people to IE 7.
(Via AppleInsider.)
With so much work being put into JavaScript Engines and competition building up between the big three(TraceMonkey, V8, and SquirrelFish) running a full blown Cappuccino, SproutCore, or any AJAX intensive app will be very light on memory usage and efficient on your resources. This JS engine competition will mostly affect the closed source Adobe’s Flex, AIR and Microsoft’s Silverlight since they can’t seem to get enough of your memory and keep crashing your browser. Closed and proprietary web frameworks have only one place in the world, and that is in the cemetery.