I do not like the navigational structure of the Chrome web store. I cannot figure out for instance how to sort all extensions based on their last update. Sure there is the new and noteworthy category but it is limited to a handful of extensions. Featured and popular as well do not provide access to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
Mozilla Demos Web Apps Store
Do you know the difference between web apps and extensions? No? You are not alone. Some users say that web apps are nothing more than links to websites, at least in this early stage of development. They can be more than that though, and developers who like to get started can take a closer look [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Mozilla Also Experimenting With Url Bar-less Designs
Mike recently wrote a piece on Google’s idea to kill the Google Chrome url bar in order to save up more space for websites and web applications (see Will Google Kill the URL Bar in Chrome?). It appears that Google is not the only company that experiments in that direction. Mozilla’s Paul Rouget published a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
The Difference Between Google Chrome Extensions And Web Apps
Google Chrome has supported extensions, sometimes called add-ons, for some time now. Recently the Google Chrome Web Store was added to the browser which has added web apps to the picture. The terminology can be confusing and this article tries to explain the differences. Lets take a look first at how extensions and web apps [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 15
Chrome Dev Ships With Two Chrome Web Store Games
Us tech folks do not like bloat. Not when it comes to the operating system we use, but also not in the software that we use on the computer. Google Chrome up until now was a slim fast web browser. Sure, it lacked a few features but the rapid development pace of the Chrome development [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: 4
“One App to Rule Them All” move by Europe
A new European project, kick-started by 22 European companies and organisations aims to develop an application development environment that will work across all platforms by providing a web-based approach, according to the BBC. The move which is backed by €10M in funding, aims to create apps that would work on any device from Internet TVs to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Google Chrome Web Apps, What Are They?
If you follow popular tech blogs like Techcrunch or Download Squad you may have noticed teaser posts about Google Chrome Web Apps, a new feature that the Chromium and Google Chrome developers have been developing for some time. Google’s plan is to offer Chrome Web Apps in the new Chrome Web Store launched later this [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Comments: 8
Install Prism on Linux for easy to use web apps
If you are a web junkie, or depend upon various web sites and services daily you know how quickly your browser can fill up with tabs. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can just use small web apps for these needs? And since that seems to be the way the computing is evolving, it only [...]