StrivingLife

Situation 1: WebKit

Microsoft drops all active development on Internet Explorer 9. Instead, they throw their full support (development team) behind WebKit.

Apple, with Safari, and Google, with Chrome, are already behind WebKit. Apple's implementation on Windows, via Safari for Windows, is shoddy at best, and Google's Chrome is a completely slimmed down version. By getting Microsoft's support behind the engine you have an experienced team that has already developed for Windows.

You also have three operating systems covered (Microsoft = Windows, Apple = Mac, and Google ~= Linux), suggesting that users of these systems will have a great experience with the WebKit implementation.

This leaves Mozilla Firefox and Opera out of the mix, but Opera's team has the mobile browser understood, and could bring that to the table, while Mozilla would have extension experience (not that the experience is all that great, but ...). Either way, the only thing that seems to tie Mozilla together is Google's money, and if Google were to withdraw that support, and WebKit were to support extensions as Firefox does, Mozilla/Firefox may experience a peaceful end.

Situtation 2: Standards

Alternatively, perhaps this decade we can see standards being agreed upon, in particular as the HTML 5 'release' approaches.

While they're at it, they may as well join together on the common cause of making the Web a safer place, and together build safe browsers (even if they each have their own).

What will really happen?

Unfortunately, while I'm hopeful enough to have these ... hopes, a decade just doesn't seem long enough for either of these situations to actually occur.

In the spirit of Rob Lumley (rmlumley), who created #cubemusic, and after a great walk today, I've created an original hashtag: #walkingmusic.

For all those days I go for a walk (which I hope to be every Friday afternoon, at least), I'll be noting afterwards what music I listened to on my walk. It's very similar to #cubemusic, but not as likely to get you in trouble (even though I would assume there would be more than that to it). ;)

I use Twitter for the most simple of posts, but if you'd like to follow me ...

Often times, like this morning, I've got anywhere between 5 to 60 minutes of time to kill.

It doesn't make sense to do anything truly productive, so I end up visiting a number of sites. techmeme.com, dailyrotation.com, news.google.com, etcetera. Then I get desperate and visit weather.gov.

However, once I've visited these, I run low on ideas of other sites, like these, that I can visit.

Any recommendations on sites that combine news, from a number of different sources, that is also interesting? I'm not looking for something like smashingmagazine.com, just short and to the point. And while I will visit YouTube to kill time, I'd rather do something semi-productive.

And yes, this is a filler post, of sorts.