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Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5

Posted by timothy on from the acknowledge-over-repeat dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:Does what to HTML 5? by Pojut · · Score: 5, Funny

    At any rate, lets all change the standards again, so all those old computers that can't run anything later than Firefox 2 have to be shipped off to some foreign dump where they leak poisonous chemicals in to the drinking water.

    It's the American way.

    --
    Living With a Nerd
  2. Its too bad the UI got messed up by Burz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mozilla and Google have got this one WRONG:

    Merging the address and search fields is a big drawback. It further confuses people about what a URL is, and it encourages them and others (esp. advertisers) to give directions to web sites as if the keywords == addresses. (Hey, like AOL!)

    If this trend continues, we'll have shenanigans and lawsuits claiming that "squatters" are using keywords on their pages that "belong to us". It will open another "IP" can of worms.

    Encouraging people to rely on keywords also opens them up to phishing big time. It's like having them clean their teeth with their enema: Very semantically dirty!

  3. Re:Firefox needs better support for security token by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Tools" -> "Options" -> "Advanced" -> "Encryption" -> "Security Devices".

  4. Re:Firefox needs better support for security token by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, he doesn't. He means what he said, regardless of the fact that *nix firefox has a different menu layout.

  5. Firefox 4 didn't catch up in canvas speed by dionyziz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interestingly, Firefox compares poorly to other browsers when it comes to heavy rendering in "canvas". Here's a demo I made that allows measuring the speed of rendering in FPS (frames per second).

    http://dionyziz.kamibu.com/3d/heli/

    Chrome 6: 31 FPS
    Opera 10.60: 46 FPS
    Safari 5.0: 25 FPS; visually poor results
    Internet Explorer 9: 19 FPS
    Firefox 4.0 Beta 1: 19 FPS