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== '''Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team''' == | == '''Market Insights from the Product Marketing Strategy Team''' == | ||
=== Desktop / Platform === | |||
==== Google ==== | |||
* In a continued extension of Google Plus services into the Android ecosystem, [http://android-developers.blogspot.ca/2013/02/google-sign-in-now-part-of-google-play.html Android developers can let users login to applications using Google+]. | |||
* Chrome Canary on Windows [http://blog.chromium.org/2013/02/chrome-app-launcher-developer-preview.html now sports an app launcher], which allows Chrome-installed packaged web apps to be easily installed outside of the browser. | |||
* Google also [http://blog.chromium.org/2013/02/chrome-26-beta-template-element.html unprefixed the CSS properties for transitions] and now offers support for the [http://blog.chromium.org/2013/02/chrome-26-beta-template-element.html <template> element part of Web Components]. The latter is a feature that has received significant attention from the developer community. | |||
* The company also open-sourced [http://googledevelopers.blogspot.ca/2013/02/compress-data-more-densely-with-zopfli.html Zopfli, a deflate-compatible, compress-only replacement for zlib that offers 3-8% better compression levels] | |||
* Chrome Beta for Android now offers support for http://blog.chromium.org/2013/03/data-compression-in-chrome-beta-for.html SPDY-based proxy browsing]. The service compresses traffic, serves it all via SSL, replaces DNS lookups, and transcodes all images to the WebP format. Chrome for Android now also syncs all passwords and form autofill entries between desktop and mobile browser. | |||
* Chrome Stable now supports the [http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2013/02/bringing-voice-recognition-to-web.html Web Speech API], with a nice Chrome-only [https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html demo]. | |||
* Chrome has also disabled [http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2013/02/bringing-voice-recognition-to-web.html silent extension installs], [http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2013/02/bettar-spell-chek-in-chrome.html improved their spell checking to support grammar, homonym, and context-sensitive checking], a [http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2013/02/race-to-win-on-big-and-small-screens.html web game that can be controlled by up to four Chrome for Android devices], and [http://chrome.blogspot.ca/2013/03/faster-browsing-for-your-smaller-screens.html improved their Octane Javascript performance by 25%]. | |||
* Chrome OS has [http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=183955 increased the priority of tabs which are playing audio], making it less likely that they will be discarded in low memory situations. [http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=184183 Tabs which are playing audio will now have a visual indicator displaying the volume], making it a lot easier to determine where these random sounds are coming from. | |||
=== HTML5 === | |||
* A survey by HTML5 tools vendor [http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/13-02-26/html5_vs_native_vs_hybrid_global_developer_survey_2013_results_are_in.aspx Kendo UI] found that 50% of developers developed HTML5 apps in 2012, but 90% plan to in 2013, and that only 15% of developers would do "native-only" development. | |||
==== Microsoft ==== | |||
* Microsoft has been fined [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/microsoft-fined-browser-error fined €561m by the European commission for failing to give users a choice of web browser when they logged into Windows computers for the first time between May 2011 and July 2012]. The fine works out to about 37 euros for each user affected. | |||
* Microsoft released the GA version of [http://blogs.windows.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2013/02/26/internet-explorer-10-now-available-for-more-than-700m-windows-customers.aspx Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7]. Their blog post features a new TV commercial highlighting the benefits of IE10 for touch-based devices. | |||
=== Opera === | |||
* Opera skipped version 13 [http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2013/03/05/opera-14-beta-for-android-is-out and went directly to Opera Beta 14 for Android] for the new WebKit-based version of their browser. Initial reviews have been positive, both for performance and for the inclusion of a "Discover" curated content discovery tool. Some of the first WebKit patches from Opera engineers [http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/142770 also landed]. | |||
==== Canonical / Ubuntu ==== | |||
* Just in time for Mobile World Congress, [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ReleaseNotes#Applications Canonical released "Ubuntu Touch 12.10 Preview"], which was an early-stage preview of the Ubuntu Linux operating system for Nexus-series mobile phones. The preview was awarded [http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57571750-78/ubuntu-touch-beats-firefox-os-to-win-best-of-mwc-from-cnet/ best of MWC 2013 by CNet]. | |||
=== Security === | |||
* The [http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2013/01/17/pwn2own-2013 Pwn2Own security contest starts today], with multiple security researchers competing for $560,000 to defeat the security of popular browsers. Chrome [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/05/google_chrome_pre_pwn2own_update/ released an update shortly before the event] that fixed 10 security vulnerabilities. | |||
==== WebKit ==== | |||
* Google's Paul Irish posted a simple [http://paulirish.com/2013/webkit-for-developers/ clear summary] of the architecture design of most WebKit-based browsers. | |||
* WebKit's new threaded HTML parser is now [http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/142525 passing all tests] and can be [http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=182284 enabled with a flag]. | |||
==== W3C ==== | |||
* The W3C's [http://www.w3.org/2013/02/mobile-web-app-state/ Dominique Hazaël-Massieux updated his document that summarizes the web apps technologies most relevant to mobile developers] | |||
== Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | == Marketing, Press & Public Reaction == | ||