Randall C. Kennedy at InfoWorld seems to think that Firefox is doomed. Why is it doomed? It isn't entirely clear to me, really. His argument seems to be that the delay of Firefox 3.6 shows that Mozilla is in chaos, and that their talk about restructing their development process means that they are in real…
Hot on the heels of YouTube's failure to deliver open video, it seems that Vimeo has decided to introduce HTML5 video support as well. But like YouTube, they decided to go for a patent-encumbered and non-free video codec instead of Theora. While this is disappointing, there are other sites out there that are more than…
The vote for YouTube to support HTML5 with open video formats was a huge success. Right now, the "Support HTML5 open web video with open formats" option has more than 12 000 votes, whereas the most popular request that is unrelated to HTML5 has about 5 000 votes. The HTML5 requests were so popular that…
Disclaimer: I do not have access to any non-public information on this matter. Furthermore, this blog post constitutes my personal observations, and should under no circumstances be considered an official statement on the matter from Opera Software. DN's sensationalist headline The main headline on Norwegian business tabloid Dagens Næringsliv (DN) today is Jon's resignation as…
Net Applications reports an increase in market share for both Opera Mini and Opera (desktop) in December 2009. What's odd is that Opera for desktop is reported as having a market share of 2.40%, while Opera Mini has a mere 0.53%. …
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