innovation initiative

Today I’ve been playing with Google’s new web browser, Google Chrome. So far I have to admit I’m very impressed. Specially about the new JavaScript engine called V8, as it even leaves WebKit’s new SquirrelFish JS engine eating dust.

Here’s the results from my most likely very-unscientific JS performance tests using Dromaeo. All tests were done within minutes of each other, during equal system loads on a 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo machine running XP SP2 (work machine, as I only have Macs myself).

Here’s the detailed test results:
http://dromaeo.com/?id=31749,31679,31717,31597,31599

Google Chrome registers as “Safari/525.13″ since they both use the WebKit rendering engine.

Best Dromaeo results I’ve seen with Google Chrome is 180ms on a friend’s 2.66 GHz Core 2 Quad system.

P.S. Yes, that chart was created using MS Office, rather than Keynote or something, as my MacBook Pro is still in the UK getting repaired. But more on that later

I just installed the WordPress app for the iPhone. And I have to admit it’s pretty damn nice, but could use some polish and feature additions. But hey, it’s the initial release, and I’m looking forward to seeing what will become of this app in the future

Also, nevermind the post where I announce Pwnage Tool 2.0 has gone wild, and my successfull pwning. I’ll post about that later…

Oh and by the way, I’m writing this on my iPhone

Last night I was contacted by one of the developers from a new multi-protocol IM client called Digsby.

If you’re an avid reader of my blog (for reasons that are beyond me… lol), you probably already know why they contacted me. They asked to bundle my Modern Bubbling message style I created for Adium along with a few other of they’re favorites.

Here’s where things start to get interesting. Modern Bubbling wont need to be ported to they’re client, as they’re using the WebKit HTML rendering engine to power their message view.

Incase you’re not an avid geek, WebKit is Apple’s rendering engine developed for Safari a few years back. WebKit was originally based on KDE’s KHTML engine. It’s the rendering engine that powers Safari, Mail, Dashboard, Adium’s message styles, and much more on Mac OS X.

So thanks to the open-source, cross-platform wonder that is WebKit, and some hard work from the development team, Digsby will support all current Adium message styles without any modifications.

Digsby’s goal is to create an intuitive IM client for Windows. They’re seemingly huge fans of Adium, and how well its UI is designed. And not to offend anybody, but personally I have to say no IM client for Windows which I’ve tried so far comes close to being as good and as much of a pleasure to use as Adium is on Mac OS X. And this seems to be the very problem the Digsby team seem determined to fix.

I’m eagerly awaiting to get my hands on the first beta to see if I wont have to be in pain anymore when using an IM client on Windows.

Head over to www.digsby.com and signup for the beta mailing list.