Grant Jacobs • Oct 07, 2013 •
(A suggestion and an informal review of the Opera WebKit* browser thus far. A trip away from science for one night!) If you are finding Safari sucking up all the RAM in your computer, locking the machine up or crashing like nobody’s business you might like to try Opera’s new WebKit-based browser. The short … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Feb 14, 2013 •
Web browser company Opera has announced it is to stop developing it's independent web page rendering engine, Presto, and take up WebKit. They're also moving to using V8 as their JavaScript engine, dropping Carakan. The author of the announcement has, separately, offered his personal thoughts on the event. The announcement … Read More
aimee whitcroft • Nov 25, 2011 •
Parts 2-4 available on the TOSP YouTube channel. Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Nov 21, 2011 •
And we’re back with another new episode of TOSP! This week, aimee and Elf talk of many things, including the winners of this year’s top NZ science award(s), the world’s lightest material, stem cell research, sexism in science (‘womanspace’), a nanocar, still-faster-than-light neutrinos, the casimir effect, and a very special congratulations to one of our Scibloggers (Sciblings)! … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Aug 11, 2011 •
Reviewing and comparing my experiences with Safari 5.1 and Opera 11.5. For all the good things Safari 5.1 has added, I’ve moved back to using Opera. Perverse? Perhaps. Let me explain. When Safari hangs, it really hangs. More on this later. In the meantime it’s a bake-off. Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jun 15, 2010 •
For a diversion, I’m offering a brief round-up of web browsers with a one-paragraph introduction. I am not offering a review of all the differing features: that would take many days, time I don’t have. (Nor do I have enough interest.) My main aim is to encourage people to try the alternatives. Download them, … Read More