Author Archive: Vygantas
Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.
Video: An Early Demo Of WebGL 2.0
No full backwards compatibility for you.
As Mozilla Foundation announced the availability of original WebGL (which was based on OpenGL ES 2.0) back in 2011 and then a 1.0.2 update two years later, the development has shifted to WebGL 2 (2013) and now it looks like all companies involved are ready to share some of the progress they have made in the last year or so.
So what exactly does the WebGL 2 have to offer? According to the recently revealed preview, the new graphics library is now based on the OpenGL ES 3.0 API and aims to raise many restrictions that were present in WebGL 1 (such as ability to use more render textures at the same time), developer controlled access to antialiasing, multiple render targets and other goodies.
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Google Asks Firefox Users To Switch Back
With a giant ad.
As you might remember, Mozilla and Google have parted their ways and decided not to renew the default search engine agreement, fortunately for the open source organization, Yahoo! stepped in and both companies have signed a new deal, which also lead in an increase of market share for the search giant.
Well, it looks like Google is no longer happy with the new deal as they started asking Firefox users to set Google as their default search engine:
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Download Opera 29 Developer Preview
With tons of new features.
Recently, Norwegian browser maker has released quite an update for its developer preview branch, which should bring joy to the advanced Opera users.
So what exactly is new in this build?
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Google Releases Chromebook Pixel 2015
Keeps the high price tag.
Not so long ago one of the spokesman at Google revealed that the search giant was working on a new version of Chromebook Pixel, which is due soon.
Well, the curtains have finally been lifted and here is what you will get:
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February, 2015 Desktop Market Share: Google Chrome, Opera – Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari – Down
It’s time to do the desktop.
As Microsoft continues to work on Spartan, it’s predecessor is in a downtrend as last month Internet Explorer’s market share decreased again (by 0.8 point this time), down from 58.18% to 57.38%
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Latest Spartan Build Includes Experimental Title Bar
Shows work still in progress.
Now here’s a small piece of info for you. Assuming you’ve been looking at the latest leaked screenshots, there was a setting to enable experimental title bar, which does away with the unnecessary space at the top.
Therefore, we strongly believe that the final version of Spartan will look like the image below (aka much better):
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Internet Explorer On Windows Phone 10 Preview Supports Live Streaming
Finally.
Even though Spartan was not yet released for either Windows 10 or Windows 10 for Phones, it looks like the developer preview build of Internet Explorer includes one of the widely requested and missed features: ability to play live stream videos, at least on YouTube.
On a slightly negative note, the newly leaked pictures of yet unreleased Windows 10 for Phones (Build 10038.12518) still comes with the Internet Explorer rather than much anticipated Project Spartan.
Stay tuned.
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More Spartan Screenshots Leak
Show what’s in store.
Following the recently released video, here comes a bunch of Spartan screenshots, revealing new features and continuous work on the user interface.
So what exactly was shown? Take a look:
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Download Firefox 38 (x86-64 / 64 Bit) Developer Edition
Are you ready for some games?
Back when we started this blog, 64 bit software and browsers especially were just a dream. Now, it seems like everyone is working or already has one.
Latest to join the party (on Windows) is Mozilla, which has recently released the 64 bit version of Firefox dubbed Developer Edition.
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