abarth

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by abarth 14y ago
The fast path is much faster and handles the common case. The complex path is, well, complex, but it's the "all sing, all dance" path that handles all the difficult cases.
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by abarth 14y ago
I'm one of the developers of threaded HTML parsing in WebKit. Threaded HTML parsing is only enabled in Chromium (for now). We're still working through the kinks. :)
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by abarth 14y ago
Based on the discussion in the W3C, I would expect other browsers to implement "new Notification" rather than implementing the window.notifications factory object because the factory object doesn't really serve any purpose. We'd like to re
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by abarth 14y ago
You should really use "new Notification" rather than "createNotification" because "new Notification" will be supported by browsers other than Chrome: http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/#api
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by abarth 14y ago
Something similar is happening to HTML5 in the W3C: http://blog.whatwg.org/html-and-html5
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by abarth 14y ago
> I can't find out how to theme Chrome A variety of themes are available in the web store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/themes
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by abarth 15y ago
This is fixed in manifest_version 2: "A package's resources are no longer available by default to external websites (as the src of an image, or a script tag). If you want a website to be able to load a resource contained in your package, yo
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by abarth 15y ago
CSP doesn't impose that restriction, but it's something we're changing at the same time: "A package's resources are no longer available by default to external websites (as the src of an image, or a script tag)." http://code.google.com/chro
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by abarth 15y ago
Chrome also caches the compiled JavaScript in the HTTP disk cache. The biggest performance wins are for large scripts used by many web sites (such as jQuery).
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by abarth 15y ago
This is the first release with a stable ABI: "Applications compiled with version 0.5 of the SDK will work in Chrome 14 and future versions of Chrome." http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/docs/releasenotes...
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by abarth 15y ago
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5057/5474607769_1edc4494a4.jp...
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by abarth 15y ago
That approach appears to provide an incentive for employees to leave so they can liquidate their holdings.
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by abarth 15y ago
Here's the design document: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/prerende... The browser does download subresources, including images, scripts, and stylesheets. The new page visibility API is intended to help folks keep ac
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by abarth 15y ago
The full details are here: http://w2spconf.com/2011/papers/websocket.pdf (Full disclosure: I'm a co-author of that paper.)
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by abarth 15y ago
The Canary build goes out automatically without being looked at by a human, so there's a very real possibility that it will be unstable. Currently there's some strange crasher in the PDF viewer, for example. You can install Canary "side-by
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by abarth 15y ago
Please consider reporting the bug so that we can fix the problem: https://bugs.webkit.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=WebKit We have a large number of tests, but sometimes we miss things. :(
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by abarth 15y ago
The idea behind this approach is to simplify the maintenance of the copyright line and to encourage collective ownership of the code. I'm told that some open-source projects have conflicts about who's name appears in which files, but I've
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by abarth 15y ago
That's correct. We're using leveldb as the back-end for IndexedDB in Chrome.