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== '''Market Insights''' == | == '''Market Insights''' == | ||
=== Desktop / Platform === | |||
==== Google ==== | |||
* Google now tells all visitors to Blogger.com that use Opera that the browser [http://www.zdnet.com/google-annoys-opera-users-who-wont-switch-to-chrome-7000000279/ "is no longer supported … some parts will not work] | |||
* Chrome now features an [http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/put-your-extensions-on-diet-with-event.html event-driven system] for extension developers, that allows extensions to by driven by browser events, spending the rest of the time deallocated from memory | |||
* Google more formally presented the [http://blog.chromium.org/2012/07/introducing-getusermedia-and-javascript.html getUserMedia and Gamepad APIs], which are now in the Beta versions of Chrome | |||
* Google will apparently [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702303567704577517081178553046-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwMDExNDAyWj.html pay a $22.5m penalty] to the US government for "surreptitious bypassing of the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari users" | |||
* Chrome now [http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.ca/2012/07/dev-channel-update.html no longer supports Mac OSX 10.5] | |||
* In marketing news, Google is now [http://www.chromestory.com/2012/07/google-distributes-chrome-in-cds-get-one-from-best-buy-store-for-free distributing free CDs of Chrome] in US Best Buy stores and Lenovo [http://www.chromestory.com/2012/07/lenovo-w-series-shipping-with-chrome-as-default-browser apparently bundles Chrome] with some of its notebooks | |||
==== Microsoft ==== | |||
* Microsoft produced a [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/25/unprefixed-css3-gradients-in-ie10.aspx detailed summary] of how IE10 will support the latest candidate recommendation for CSS Gradients | |||
* Microsoft [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228979/Microsoft_patches_critical_drive_by_IE9_bug_Windows_zero_day?taxonomyId=85&pageNumber=1 patched 16 vulnerabilities], including one in Windows that's been exploited for weeks and two in IE9 in the first-in-years back-to-back browser update. | |||
* Microsoft has increased their Internet Explorer development resources to the point that they can [http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2012/07/10/gadgets-certificate-housekeeping-and-the-july-2012-bulletins.aspx now "be able to release an update during any month instead of on our previous, bi-monthly cadence." | |||
==== Opera ==== | |||
* Opera's dev builds [http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-spdy-build/ now support SPDY] | |||
* … they also support a number of [http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/07/new-opera-12-50-dons-webkit-disguise/ -webkit- prefixed CSS properties] | |||
* Opera also open-sourced [http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2012/06/27/introducing-robohydra-operas-open-source-http-client-test-tool RoboHydra], a "a web server designed to help you test any kind of HTTP-based client … mimicking any server behaviour needed to test your clients. | |||
==== Torch Browser ==== | |||
* The [http://www.torchbrowser.com/ Torch Browser], a Chromium-based desktop browser with built-in social sharing and Bittorrent support, was launched. | |||
==== WebKit ==== | |||
* Partial support for the CSS Variables Standard [http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/120154 landed in WebKit] | |||
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | == Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | ||