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== UX & User Research ==
== == Google ====* The Chromium team [http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/expanding-chromium-security-rewards.html expanded] the Chromium Security Rewards Program, by increasing its scope to cover the Chromium OS.* The new Chrome Beta release [http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/gpu-accelerating-2d-canvas-and-enabling.html enables] GPU-accelerated rendering of 2D canvas content, and also enables WebGL acceleration for people with older GPUs using Swiftshader, a software rasterizer that Google licensed from TransGaming. This should make for significant performance improvements on systems like Windows XP.* Chrome's [http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/future-of-javascript-take-peek-today.html dev channel] features an updated V8 Javascript engine that offers initial support for lexical scoping, collections, weak maps, and proxies.* Google also released a [http://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/ Field Guide to Web Applications] that offer a high-level, architectural overview of how to design web applications. Their [http://html5rocks.com/ HTML5Rocks] site was updated, and features an excellent detailed [http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/ overview] of the architecture of the Chrome and Mozilla browsers.* Chrome 17 stable was [http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/02/stable-channel-update.html released]. 20 security bugs were fixed -- 1 critical, 8 high, 5 medium, and 6 low. A significant number were detected with [http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizer AddressSanitizer], a fast memory error detector.* Chrome's Dev Channel [http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/02/dev-channel-update_10.html release] has a few interesting new features, including using Google'Market Insightss servers to conduct spellchecking for entered and pasted text. * The Sencha team conducted an initial [http://www.sencha.com/blog/html5-scorecard-chrome-mobile-beta/#date:12:00 review] of Google Chrome for Android, giving it high marks. It notes that SunSpider performance is little different than other browsers and suggests that it is now time to shelve that particular benchmark test.==== Opera ====* The latest [http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/ snapshot] of Opera 12 offers support for Do Not Track and a substantial number of SSL performance optimizations.==== Microsoft ====* Microsoft released a Critical [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-010 update] for MSIE 6, 7, 8, and 9. The vulnerability would allow remote code execution from a specially constructed web page.* MSIE 10 will [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/09/cors-for-xhr-in-ie10.aspx allow] full support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing for XMLHttpRequests.* In a 9,000 word [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/02/09/building-windows-for-the-arm-processor-architecture.aspx blog post], Microsoft''' s Windows president Steven Sinofsky divulged a slew of details on Windows on ARM. Microsoft plans to have ARM PCs available when other Windows 8 computers are available, and the company will also include desktop versions of optimized Office 15 applications. Windows 8 ARM PCs will also never turn off, instead going into a standby mode that should last for weeks.==== WebOS ====* HP [http://developer.palm.com/blog/2012/02/sams-blog-february-releases-for-open-webos released] the source code to [http://isis-project.org/ Isis], the WebOS browser, which apparently offers "unrivaled speed and standards compliance".==== W3C ====* Webmonkey has a good [http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/02/web-developers-sound-off-on-webkit-prefixes/ summary article] describing the issues and positions in the debate as to whether other browsers should support -webkit-prefixed CSS properties.
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction ==
