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== '''Market Insights''' == | == '''Market Insights''' == | ||
=== Desktop / Platform === | |||
==== Google ==== | |||
* Support for the khtml- and apple- CSS vendor prefixes were removed from Chromium | |||
==== Microsoft ==== | |||
* Microsoft officially [http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/04/16/announcing-the-windows-8-editions.aspx announced] their suite of Windows 8 versions. x86, in both 32 and 64-bit versions, will be available in "Windows 8", "Windows 8 Pro", and "Windows 8 Enterprise" versions. The ARM version will be known as "Windows RT", and will only be available pre-installed on OEM devices. | |||
* The Windows 8 team also made an interesting blog post to describe the [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/04/17/reclaiming-memory-from-metro-style-apps.aspx memory management] in upcoming versions of Windows 8. | |||
* Microsoft job advertisements indicate that the company is working on a [http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/microsoft-job-ads-reveal-html5-version-of-skype-coming-to-browsers.ars version of Skype to work in web browsers]. | |||
==== Opera ==== | |||
* The Opera Dragonfly (developer tools) team had a [http://my.opera.com/dragonfly/blog/2012/04/13/early-look-at-upcoming-features-pretty-print-function-return-values-upnp blog post and video] demonstrating some early versions of upcoming new features, including a Javascript pretty printer, improvements to the inspection tool that show both function input and return values, and improved workflow for the remote debugger. | |||
==== WebKit ==== | |||
* The WebKit team made [http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/04/Big-boost-to-DOM-performance---WebKit-s-innerHTML-is-240-faster significant performance improvements] to the DOM, with functions like div.classList improved by up to 11x. Each improvement also includes test scripts to allow easy comparison to other browsers. | |||
* Device Emulation in Web Inspector now permits user to set the "orientation" of the device and creating a "fit to width" option to inherit the browser window's dimensions as the device resolution. | |||
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | == Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | ||