Jim Rapoza

With the release of Silverlight 3, Microsoft continues its race to catch up with the product’s main competition-namely, Adobe’s Flash. To a large degree, Microsoft has done a good job, adding many features that Silverlight lacked compared with Flash. But Silverlight still lags behind Adobe’s Flash-and behind Adobe’s related products, AIR and Flex–when it comes […]

Labs Gallery: Microsoft Expression Blend 3 RC Makes Great Strides in RIA Race by Jim Rapoza SketchFlow The new SketchFlow feature in Expression Blend 3 makes it possible to prototype application projects in a way that approximates rough sketches, a model that some have found to be more effective than polished prototypes. SketchFlow Prototypes Though […]

Finally, our long national nightmare is over. No, I’m not talking about the economy, that’s still a mess. No, what I’m talking about is the misguided and confusing practice of referring to products as beta that are intended to be used by people and businesses. In the same week that they announced their still-far-off Chrome […]

Labs Gallery: Firefox 3.5 Provides Significant Improvements By Jim Rapoza Performance and Reliability Improvements With performance and reliability improvements in the new Firefox 3.5, users should be able to engage in long browsing sessions with multiple open tabs and windows without fear of crashes or slowdowns. Private Browsing Private browsing, a feature found in most […]

By pretty much any measure, Mozilla’s Firefox browser has been a huge success. Firefox is one of the most successful open-source applications of all time, second only to the Apache Web server. And in just a few short years, Firefox has been able to take significant market share away from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, a task […]

Opera recently announced a new technology that it is including as essentially an alpha within the beta of the Opera 10 browser. And in its announcement, Opera claimed that this new technology, called Unite, would reinvent the way that everyone uses the Web. After using Unite for the last week, I’m not sure if I […]

Labs Gallery: Opera Unite Offers Intriguing Possibilities by Jim Rapoza Unite Installation Once a user installs the Opera 10 beta that includes the Opera Unite alpha, he or she must first log into or create an account on an Opera online service to activate and use Unite. Opera Web Address Once Unite is enabled, users […]

I’m looking to buy some servers. Along with my standard concerns about hardware specifications and what software I’ll run on the servers, I also have to consider what ISPs the servers can work with. This Hewlett-Packard server is really nice, but HP has an exclusivity deal with Comcast. And while I also like the IBM […]

eWEEK Labs Looks Back at 7 Years of the Mozilla Browser by Jim Rapoza Mozillas Debut In 2002, after three years of development, the open-source Mozilla browser was released to the public. A suite of tools including a browser, an HTML editor, and an e-mail and news reader client, Mozilla 1.0 was a superior browser […]