Plaug nphoo Safari, web taug txuj kev nyuaj nees

Elephant with donut icon png
Lub logo rau nphoo Safari, the awesome web game finally released to the public.

I’ve got a dirty little secret. Qhov tshij, not so dirty, really, morecreamy. Sugary. Frosty. Sprinkle-y.

Here it is: for the last year and more(computer searching reveals since January 29, 2011even before hathix.com was founded), I’ve been working nonstop on alittleweb-based adventure game. And it’s never been formally released to the public until now.

Here’s a look at the making of the game. It’s taken 16 months and over 100 hours of development.

Tsis tau txaus noog npau taws? Ua kom hauv internet

Playing Angry Birds 1-1
Ib tug noog crashing mus ua ib tug qauv, uas npua nyob rau hauv tus txheej txheem

Yog hais tias koj lub xov tooj lub roj teeb yuav tuag rau koj vim koj siv tag nrho koj lub sij hawm ua si qhov nrov wildly mobile kev ua si Noog npau taws (los yog hais tias koj pheej yig heev yuav npau taws noog), koj yuav tsum tau zoo nkauj tus pog txog qhov project.

Koj tau tam sim no ua si noog npau taws hauv internet no. Ntawm no yog koj xav tau dab tsi:

  1. Ib tug dlej browser (ntxiv rau ntawd tom qab)
  2. Eeb tsev av (thov txim, cov neeg iDevice)

Raws li qhov URL (chrome.angrybirds.com) tej zaum hint, Noog npau taws tej hauj lwm nyob rau ntawm Chrome. Kuv twb sim nws rau ob peb browsers thiab ntawm no yog kuv twb pom dab tsi:

Firefox’s new release strategy

Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were releasedwhen they were ready” – that is, when all the features they wanted to put in were in it. That’s called feature-based releases, and most developers use that strategy.

But there’s another release strategy that focuses on releasing new versions every so often. Some features might not make a version, but that’s OK; a new version is coming in x weeks so it’ll be included then. This is called fixed releases.

Qhov Wisconsin quest rau tsev sab ncaj ncees

I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. I mean, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, zoo, awkward. Plus they’re not very useful: most of them just serve as a landing page; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.

I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.

Firefox 4 is out

It’s been about a year in coming (it was in beta for a full year), but Firefox 4 is finally out and can be downloaded at firefox.com. The open-source web browser’s latest version is a gigantic step forward from the 3.6 version (the old stable version from a year ago, which is pitifully outdated by now.)

What’s changed

  • Firefox 4 is about 3 times faster in page loading and JavaScript performance than 3.6. This means your favorite web apps and websites areget ready for this – 3 times faster than before.