It’s only through abstraction that we’re able to build the complex software systems that we do today. Hiding unimportant details from developers lets us work more efficiently and most importantly it allows us to devote more of our brain to the higher-level problems we’re trying to solve for our users. As an obvious example, if you’re …
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Updating software on your Mac in ten easy steps…
Launch your application, oh look, an update! Clicking “Update” takes you to the Mac App Store web site. Click “View in Mac App Store” since apparently I’m not doing that yet, but wait! Tell my browser that it’s okay to do what I just told it to do. We’re launched into the Mac App Store …
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Mozilla and WebKit, browser platform wars.
This post began as a comment on Matthew Gertner’s blog post The Browser Platform Wars. It’s a rant not an article, don’t take it personally. In my experience (8 years building Mozilla based products and playing with WebKit since it was first released as WebCore in 2003) there are a few clear technical and social …
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