Season 2 Episode 5 [direct link] - Browser Based Winning
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In this episode, Rob gets a new job, John talks about being accosted by WordPress fans in Spain and most importantly, we welcome a very special guest in the form of the god-like Martin Beeby. Martin is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft and came along to talk about the future of browsers, he’s otherwise known as The Beebs - follow him on twitter, he is so worth it!.
This episode focuses on the past/present/future of browsers and web standards, trends in new standards adoption, changes in browser update mechanisms and other important issues surrounding the future of the web.
- Martin Beeby is awesome
- Rob is now a Technical Evangelist for Mozilla
- Rob has a book. Buy it on Amazon - because it is SERIOUSLY awesome… Hannah says so.
- MOO Rounded Corners
- Martin Cotton, Microsoft & the W3C
- Geolocation in IE9
- Microsoft IE HTML5 labs
- HTML 5 forms (example) (spec)
- Firefox release cycle change
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