So Google is developing a new protocol, dubbed SPDY pronounced speedy. SPDY is designed, from the ground up, to handle modern Web apps that transfer several smaller files. Without getting too technical, SPDY is able to handle multiple streams of data at once and prioritize on the fly. This means that if the background image of a site takes a long time to load, it doesnt stall the rest of the content from being fed to the browser. SPDY also compresses request and response data which asks for specific content and tells a browser what to display so that multiple requests can be sent at once using less bandwidth
Turn your Nginx server into a fully functional Comet server with the nginx_http_push_module plugin.
Instead of using a custom framework, Leo's plugin exposes two endpoints on your Nginx server: one for the subscribers, and one for the publisher. The clients open long-polling connections to a channel on the Nginx server and start waiting for data. Meanwhile, the publisher simply POST's the data to Nginx and the plugin then does all the heavy lifting for you by distributing the data to the waiting clients. This means that the publisher never actually serves the data directly, it is simply an event generator! It is hard to make it any simpler then that.
Earlier this week Facebook’s Engineering team posted a note written by intern Zizhuang Yang, who has spent the summer researching how changes in things like load time can affect users. Yang writes about three main experiments he conducted over the last few months, including one involving overall site speed and two in the way pages load, and the results are quite interesting.
The HTML 5 working group is split between supporters of Ogg Theora and H.264. Their inability to find a compromise that is acceptable to all stakeholders has compelled HTML 5 spec editor Ian Hickson to “admit defeat” and give up on the effort to define specific codecs and media formats in the standard itself. This is problematic because the lack of uniform codec availability will make it impossible for content creators to publish their videos in a single format that will be viewable through the HTML 5 video element in all browsers.
Now the makers of the Firefox Web browser plan to adopt a strategy to help block the attacks. The technology, called Content Security Policy CSP, will let a website's owner specify what Internet domains are allowed to host the scripts that run on its pages.
With Opera 10, we are introducing a new technology called Opera Unite, radically extending what you are able to do online. Opera Unite harnesses the power of today’s fast connections and hardware, allowing all of us to help define the future landscape of the Web, one computer at a time. Read about how Opera Unite is going to change the way we interact on the Web on labs.opera.com.
In a new craze sweeping the world, iPhone and iPod Touch users are producing extraordinary ‘paintings’ on their Apple devices. All the images were created using an application called Brushes and ‘painted’ freehand using fingers and thumbs
Click Show options in the blue bar (located at the top of the search results page) to see the available filters and views you can apply to your search results. Click Hide options to remove the options panel from view.
If you forget what options are applied to your results, look at the list of links in the blue bar.
To go back to standard unfiltered Google results, click Reset options at the bottom of the panel.
