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Greasemonkey, a Firefox customization tool popular among high-powered Web surfers, is coming to Google Chrome browser. Aaron Boodman, a Greasemonkey author and a Google programmer who’s active in the Gears project, contributed Greasemonkey support to Chrome, and the Google Operating System blog picked up on the change.At this stage, enabling Greasemonkey requires people to use a cutting-edge developer version of the open-source browser and to launch it with a “–enable-greasemonkey” option set.
Greasemonkey lets people run scripts that modify Web page appearance. For example, back when Google’s Gmail service lacked a “delete” button, people could add one by installing the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox then downloading a particular customization script. Google wants to improve the Greasemonkey support, for example by confining particular Greasemonkey scripts to particular Web pages and letting the browser update its scripts as it’s running.
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Creating web applications is as complex as writing a thesis paper or a dissertation. It does not only necessitate quite a tedious amount of effort to perfect the function of the program but also demands one stable thing from the user: internet association.
Whenever a program is being written, it takes several factors in deliberation but the most important of them is the user-interface. It is imperative that the application’s interface is easy to understand, lest it will not be used as it was intended to be so.
Using a atypical office text created raises an issue on standards compliance, moving the evasive issue of file partaking and association. What must be noticed is that these browser applications are used by accessing the internet through the remote servers. It is threatening however, for the document, if the connection is suddenly lost or interrupted. Chances are, the document being programmed online will be lost and inferior, irretrievable.
This kind of disadvantage poses a threat to the survival of the web applications, hence, companies such as Google have made preliminary solutions to this problem. However, for now, only prototypes have been developed to repress the threat raised by this problem. Just like so, Google has created Google Gears—a beta display place that aims to improve the usability of web applications.
The rate of evolution in the VoIP market would surely make Darwin’s head spin and the latest entry into this market would probably blow his mind. The recently-launched Ribbit company bills itself as “Silicon Valley’s First Phone Company.” Like Skype, Ribbit’s system supports softphones, but unlike Skype Ribbit isn’t a closed system. An interesting issue is that being based on Flash/Flex technology no installation is required as it is completely Web-based - an interesting and potentially powerful advantage over Skype.
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Cownter allows site visitors to see how many people are simultaneously viewing the page they are on.
Techniques that engage users with Web content are always worth exploring as are simple methods for capturing site metrics that help profile how your site.
My topic today, Cownter, is a service (in beta - of course) that allows the visitors to your Web site to see how many people are simultaneously viewing the page they are on. It also tells site owners who have implemented Cownter how many users visited specific pages.
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