General links

• Video: Flash performance on the Nexus One
• censorzilla
• PHP compiler performance – PHP Classes blog

Mobile

• 10 Great Tools to Create a Mobile Version of Your Site

General links

• What really happens when you navigate to a URL – great in-depth explanation of computer-to-server transactions. With pictures!
• (Google) Update on Qualified Developer Program – some insight into the motivation behind Google’s Qualified Developer Program

HTML5/CSS3 and new web technology

• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Flash: Thomas Fuchs’s slides from his presentation at Webstock 2010
• You Can Use CSS3 Right Now
• Designing for the Future with HTML5+CSS3 : Tutorials and Best Practices

Mobile

• Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know – many details on Microsoft’s new phone OS announced this week.
• RIM demos new WebKit-based BlackBerry browser at MWC — it’s fast! – BlackBerry also had an announcement of their own: their new Webkit-based browser in development since their acquisition of Torch Mobile. Torch was developing the Iris Browser, which was one of the few browsers to score 100/100 on the Acid3 test. Its JavaScript engine was WebKit’s Nitro (aka SquirrelFish Extreme (SFX), formerly known as JavaScriptCore)

Videos

BlackBerry showing off its new WebKit Browser

Engadget’s hands-on demo of Windows Phone 7 Series

According to the statistics available on statcounter.com, from January 2009 to January 2010, iPhone browser traffic share actually decreased, not increased, as one might expect.

This is likely due to new competition from Android phones, as well as the possibility that more users are simply using iPhone native apps instead of web apps.

In any case, in my opinion these are the figures we ought to be looking at, not overall phone sales, as others such as PPK concentrate on. If we don’t use computer sales as an estimate of desktop browser share, then why should we use phone sales as an estimate of mobile browser share? Just because someone has a phone with a pre-installed browser doesn’t lead them to actually use it.

In any case, here’s the statistics, with a few surprises:

• iPhone/iTouch web traffic share decreased in the US and worldwide
• BlackBerry gained market share
• NetFront gained market share (this somewhat baffled me)

And now for the stats…

Predictions for 2010:

• Android continues to increase market share
• Decrease in NetFront market share (opposite of current trend)
• Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Series reverses downward IE trend
• iPad grows in market share (this is a given, but will it break the top 10?)

Source: statcounter.com

General links

• Video for Everybody!: cross-browser support of HTML5 video and methods of fallback
• Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work: “…as a result of the layoffs … ‘the accessibility of the GNOME desktop will become the open source equivalent of an unfunded mandate, doomed ultimately to fail’ …”
• Google Acquires Aardvark For $50 million
• “the latest publication of HTML5 is now blocked by Adobe, via an objection that has still not been made public (despite yesterday’s promise to make it so)”
• The iPhone obsession (QuirksMode)

Performance

• DOMTiming interface being implemented in Chromium and Firefox
• A Hidden Cost of Javascript: file size is a factor in performance, but so is parse and load time
• Announcing High Performance JavaScript: Nicholas Zakas announces his latest book, due in March 2010.

Events

• Video: Google Buzz Launch Event
• JSConf speaker lineup?: Apparently pictures from JSConf 2010′s speaker lineup (via John-David Dalton’s twitter)