Wel­come to 2012! The web has reached its third decade and it’s chang­ing more rapidly than ever. I’m no Nos­tradamus but, unlike him, I’m pre­pared to make ten prophe­cies with­out resort­ing to ambigu­ous lan­guage or ten­u­ous expla­na­tions. I do not … Con­tinue read­ing →

It looks like the web browser that wouldn’t die is finally on its last legs. While it’s not quite dead yet (espe­cially when you con­sider the world­wide usage fig­ures), use of Inter­net Explorer 6 in the United States has now offi­cially dropped below one … Con­tinue read­ing →

Intel’s Par­al­lel Exten­sions for JavaScript, code named River Trail, hooks into on-chip vec­tor exten­sions to improve per­for­mance of Web appli­ca­tions. Details of Intel’s attempt to get on the JavaScript jug­ger­naut emerged last month at its devel­oper event. The pro­to­type JavaScript exten­sion offered … Con­tinue read­ing →

This morn­ing we reported that the com­ments on Face­book are being indexed by Google. Google’s Matt Cutts just con­firmed on Twit­ter that Google is now able to “exe­cute AJAX/JS to index some dynamic com­ments.” This gives Google’s spi­der, Google­Bot, the abil­ity to read com­ments … Con­tinue read­ing →