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==== Google ==== | |||
* The Google Security team made a post describing [http://blog.chromium.org/2012/04/fuzzing-for-security.html ClusterFuzz], their cluster of machines that perform 50 million fuzz tests per day on the latest Chromium builds. The entire pipeline from managing test cases to verifying fixes is automated. | |||
* A [http://blog.chromium.org/2012/05/better-code-optimization-decisions-for.html new version] of Google's Javascript engine, V8, features a new algorithm that selects between different optimization approaches, resulting in a 25% improvement in performance on SunSpider tests. | |||
* Google Drive launched, with some initial integration into ChromeOS and with [http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/google-gdrive-chrome-os/ much more planned]. Initial integration [http://www.chromestory.com/2012/04/google-drive-on-chromebook/ arrived] in the ChromeOS dev channel this week. Google applies all its search tools, [http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2012/04/google-drive-goggles.html including image recognition] to data that is uploaded to Drive. | |||
==== Microsoft ==== | |||
* Microsoft supported the development of a [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/26/more-news-from-ms-open-tech-announcing-the-open-source-metro-style-theme.aspx Metro style JQuery theme] for web developers | |||
* Microsoft made significant changes to the [http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/04/30/four-ways-we-re-improving-marketplace.aspx rules for submitting applications to the Windows 8 Marketplace] | |||
* Rumours published in the New York Times and [http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/bing-bang-boom-is-microsofts-search-engine-secretly-for-sale/12561 elsewhere] suggested that Microsoft has suggested that Facebook purchase the Bing search engine. | |||
==== Opera ==== | |||
* Anne van Kesteren [http://annevankesteren.nl/2012/04/prefixes posted her explanation] of why Opera decided to support some webkit-prefixed CSS properties. The [http://www.webkitbits.com/post/22222538210/why-o-why-thoughts-on-operas-implementation-of-webkit-s WebKitBits blog] had a different impression of what should be done. | |||
==== Privacy ==== | |||
* Thomas Roessler of the W3C posted a [http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/04/the_state_of_do_not_track.html good summary] of the current state of the Do Not Track initiative at the W3C, European and US levels. | |||
==== Research In Motion ==== | |||
* RIM released their [http://devblog.blackberry.com/2012/05/blackberry-10-webworks-sdk/ WebWorks SDK] for Blackberry 10, which "allows web developers to create first class BlackBerry applications using familiar web technologies such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript". | |||
* Sencha performed an [http://www.sencha.com/blog/html5-scorecard-rim-blackberry-playbook-2/#date:17:00 in-depth review] of the HTML5 support on the latest version of the Blackberry playbook, characterizing its support as "excellent". | |||
=== Mobile === | === Mobile === | ||