Love Twitter but wish it had some spiffy features you could turn on and off with the click of a mouse? You wishes will soon come true as according to the User Experience and Front End Engineering Lead for Twitter, Britt Selvitelle Twitter is planning on rolling out their very own “Labs” service. Announced at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, this new service will allow developers to create new and exciting features much like Firefox’s plugins and Google Labs features. Unfortunately, Britt was mum on anything else interesting regarding Twitters’ new Labs features and upcoming products. However, everyone who attended the conference was told that they would be given early access to the new Labs features. Anyone care to share? Guess us normal folk will have to play the waiting game yet again.
Tech Radar
- September 25, 2009 5:50 am
Whenever someone takes your work that you spent many months developing and nurturing like a small baby child and then goes and rips the guts out and calls it home is rather disturbing and maddening. Such are the feelings Microsoft is feeling after the Google Chrome IE plugin we recently talked about. The plugin essesentiall allows Google Chrome to run inside of a frame within IE. All in all it makes using IE much less painful and actually worthwhile. Microsoft however sees it differently and as usual, tries to spin it in such a way that makes the Chrome plugin appear as if it’s on the brink of sending your entire hard drive’s worth of content out onto the interwebs. From the horse:
Given the security issues with plugins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plugin has doubled the attach area for malware and malicious scripts. This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take
They wouldn’t recommend it huh? I wouldn’t recommend using IE at all. But such things in life can’t be avoided with various corporations still refusing to budge from their IE backgrounds. In all reality, the way the Chrome/IE tango goes, most if not all of IE’s security settings are left untampered with meaning you’re fine. The only difference is the dramatically faster browsing and web pages actually displaying as the web developer intended. *Gasp*. Give it a try IE users. It’s the best thing you could do.
Mashable
Even though Google Chrome doesn’t enjoy as much success as IE or Firefox, it is still a very capable browser that in it’s current Beta 3 form is of the quickest browsers around. It’s lightweight while still looking relatively stylish. I personally like the style though some may find the playskool-ish style a bit to childish for their tastes. Moving on, one thing that draws people to Firefox are extensions, extensions, and more extensions which allow you to customize Firefox to the moon and back with all sorts of goodies. For some, the full move to Chrome will finally be complete once more popular and just more plugins in general become available for the Google based browser. However, while we wait, a great little “special build” of Google Chrome called ChromePlus will help ease us into full Google Chrome plugin support.
