Asa Dotzler: Commitments? What Commitments‽ Principles? What Principles‽
Let's start with these. Open Protocols. Microsoft commits that all the protocols in [Windows] that are used by any other Microsoft product will be made openly available to the developer community in a...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: This Has Worked Well
"The U.S. antitrust ruling requires that Microsoft disclose all of the interfaces internal to Windows called by 'middleware' within the operating system, such as the browser, the media player, and so...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Windows Weekly with Paul Thurrott and Mary Jo Foley
This week's Windows Weekly broadcast spends about 20 minutes (from 2:00 to just past 20:00) on the topic of Microsoft banning competing browsers from Windows on ARM. Paul and Mary Joe do a really good...
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Robert O'Callahan: Sad And Pathetic Machines
On Saturday I visited a friend’s house to see if I could help them with slowness problems on their home computer. This was a six-year-old machine running XP with 448MB RAM. I observed that on startup...
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Asa Dotzler: Firefox on Windows Metro on ARM
Windows 8 Metro is a beautiful computing environment. Unfortunately, it's very limited when it comes to certain kinds of raw power that we're all used from the last couple of decades of Windows...
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Robert O'Callahan: Accelerated Scrolling In Firefox: Past, Present And Future
Scrolling performance is always important and we've made some pretty huge strides since Firefox 4. It may be helpful for me to explain some of what's happened. In Firefox 3.6 and earlier, we had some...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Windows Tablets Are Not Separate
I've read a number of people trying to argue that tablets are not the same as PCs and that Microsoft gets to change the rules and drop their public commitments to developers (and governments) on...
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Robert O'Callahan: Crosbie's Hut
Around this time last year I took my children to the Pinnacles hut and since then I've wanted to take them on a similar trip again. The Auckland region doesn't have many huts suitable for a one-night...
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Robert O'Callahan: Firefox Vs The New York Times
For several months I've noticed that when my Firefox session gets bloated, about:memory shows zombie compartments associated with the nytimes.com site. I don't visit that site very often, but over a...
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Asa Dotzler: It's Been 12 Years
Today is my 12 year anniversary as a full-time Mozillian. I started contributing about a year and a half before that, but it wasn't until May 29th, 2000 that Mozilla became my full-time, paying work....
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Robert O'Callahan: The Canvas getContext() Mistake
The HTML <canvas> element has a getContext(type) method that takes a string parameter identify a context type (e.g. "2d" or "webgl") and returns a context object of that type. The string...
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Robert O'Callahan: Mangawhai
This weekend was Queen's Birthday Weekend so we got Monday off. The weather was excellent the whole weekend. On Saturday my family went to Mangawhai Heads (about 1.5 hours drive from Auckland) and did...
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Robert O'Callahan: The City And The City
I've just finished reading China Miéville's The City And The City. It's amazing. The premise is original and outrageous, and seems hard to sustain given he places it in the context of the real world,...
View ArticleAsa Dotzler: Another Anniversary - Mozilla 1.0 Turns Ten
Today is the 10 year anniversary of the release of Mozilla 1.0. It's also my birthday. Coincidence? :D
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Robert O'Callahan: Leaving Linkedin
Inspired by others, I just quit Linkedin. There was almost no value in it to me --- probably negative value to due to having to deal with their email. I am now a member of zero social-networking sites,...
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Robert O'Callahan: To Beijing
I'm planning to be in Beijing next week. I've been invited to give a talk at the International Symposium on Memory Management 2012. It's colocated with PLDI, ECOOP and various workshops --- a key...
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Robert O'Callahan: Experiencing Beijing
There were some surprises. The weather was great --- hot, but the famous smog was barely noticeable and we had clear blue skies much of the time. On seven of the eight days you could see the mountains...
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Robert O'Callahan: Google Plus Spam
Recently I removed Google+ from my Google account. Unfortunately, people are still adding my account to their Google+ circles. (I had assumed they wouldn't be able to do that anymore.) Worse, I now get...
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Robert O'Callahan: Computer Science In Beijing
The actual point of me being in Beijing was to give a talk at ISMM about memory management in Web browsers, to attend the PLDI and ECOOP conferences and some of the associated workshops, and to talk to...
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Asa Dotzler: Cleaning my DSLR sensor
About 5 years ago I bought jst's Nikon D100 when he was upgrading to something better. It's been a great camera and while I would definitely like something with a more contemporary sensor, the D100 is...
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