Show Notes for May 22, 2013
- WebGL
- supported on Safari, but disabled by default
- supported on Chrome Mobile, but disabled by default
- "leaked builds of IE11 in Windows Blue have support for WebGL"
- Google Glass API
- Solutions to run native code in the browser
- Google Native Client
- "Mozilla has no intention of running native code inside the browser"
- asm.js
- LLVM bytecode generated by Clang is compiled to asm.js with Mozilla Emscripten
- V8 issue for implementing asm.js
- Ars article from yesterday: Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
- Eye examinations for toddlers
- "The recommended schedule set by the American Optometric Association is similar: at age 6 months, at age 3 years, and just before kindergarten, followed by routine exams every two years."
- Palm VII
- "the first truly wireless data-capable information devices"
- $700 + $15/month for the data service
- "Web Clipping applications, also known as Palm Query Applications (PQAs) made use of the network to request and post web data"
- released in May 1999
- Continuum "is a Canadian science fiction series […]. The series centres on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. Despite being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop businesses of the future from replacing governments with their own rules, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing that she is also a time traveller. The show premiered on Showcase on May 27, 2012."
- Google IO 2013
- Sessions with links to videos
- Web Languages and VMs: Fast Code is Always in Fashion, talk by Lars Bak and Kasper Lund