Simon Willison’s Weblog

Chromium OS User Experience. The 2 minute UI concept video is probably the best way to understand the ideas behind Google’s Chrome OS.

# 19th November 2009, 10:12 pm / google, chrome, chromeos, chromium, ui

Codecs for <audio> and <video>. HTML 5 will not be requiring support for specific audio and video codecs—Ian Hickson explains why, in great detail. Short version: Apple won’t implement Theora due to lack of hardware support and an “uncertain patent landscape”, while open source browsers (Chromium and Mozilla) can’t support H.264 due to the cost of the licenses.

# 2nd July 2009, 10:16 am / h264, video, audio, html5, ian-hickson, theora, ogg, chromium, mozilla, google, patents, codecs

Chromium. Google Chrome is out! Here’s the open source project, including the code for the new V8 JavaScript virtual machine.

# 2nd September 2008, 9:06 pm / google, browsers, open-source, v8, javascript, chromium, chrome