Probably the most interesting ‘new’ news to come of of the Apple conference this week was the announcement of a Beta version of their Safari browser available for Windows. However before you download and ditch Internet Explorer for good (why haven’t you done this already for Firefox?), check out this review on fosfor gadgets that shows some screenshots of some major HTML rendering issues that look like it is not ready for primetime just yet.
Apple iPhone to support web apps via browser, but no native app support for 3rd party developers?
Since developer’s initial dismay over the lack of support for 3rd party applications for the iPhone, Apple discussed support yesterday at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference for web applications via the Safari browser on the phone.
If Apple’s main concern is the possibility of 3rd party apps compromising security and/or reliability on the platform, then opening up the possibility of Web2.0 style AJAX enabled apps is a step in the right direction, but you wonder how much Apple is missing out on taking advantage of running 3rd party native apps on the pltform.
news.com’s JavaOne 2007 photo album (plus session slides now available)
If you were unable to make it to JavaOne this year, news.com have a collection of photos from the event.
Also, slides from most of the technical sessions are now available in PDF form from the JavaOne site here.
Erik Thauvin’s LinkBlog now closed…
I’ve frequently browsed Erik Thauvin’s Linkblog since he does an excellent job of trawling the net and picking out the most interesting and relevant Java and technology news items (and I’ve even had a couple of my own posts linked there). Sad to say that Erik has decided to end the blog… that’s a big loss for the community to lose such a good news resource…