Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a first look at Firefox 4 Beta 1 and sees several noteworthy HTML5 integrations that bring Firefox 4 'that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop.' Beyond the Chrome-like UI, Firefox 4 adds several new features that 'open up new opportunities for AJAX and JavaScript programmers to add more razzle-dazzle and catch up with Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, and other plug-ins,' Wayner writes. 'Firefox 4 also adds an implementation of the Websockets API, a tool for enabling the browser and the server to pass data back and forth as needed, making it unnecessary for the browser to keep asking the server if there's anything new to report.'"

Comments

Re:Have I missed any?

[Pojut]

I have no idea, ask the people that cite it as a reason Firefox sucks.

In case you missed it (which you apparently did), I was poking fun at people who find Firefox so abhorrent that a piece of software borders on offending them.

Re:Does what to HTML 5?

[Pojut]

My original post ("The American Way") was intended as a joke...a true joke, but still just a joke. That being said, given the -1 mod it reached, I figured I offended someone...so I figured I would be a dick, because you should never be offended when someone states the truth. "The American Way" doesn't mean no one else does it, it simply means that we do it. In no way did I mean or imply otherwise.

For the record, I wouldn't have bought a $12 toaster in the first place...that's one of the reasons why it broke ;-)

Re:desktop as a document?

[roman_mir]

Who are you to tell my users what their business case is?

Also I am giving you the actual reasons why browser sucks at being forced to try and behave like a desktop application, you are dismissing it on your perverted reasoning that you know better what people need for their work!