Monday, September 15th, 2008, 721 days ago
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Yestoday was Chinese traditional festival called Middle autumn day which means eating moon cakes and watching the moon together with relatives and friends.
But yestoday the lab arranged some special activities that included watching movie and having dinner all together. The picture display above is the pop of the movie which called “FLOOD” in london.
Sunday, September 14th, 2008, 722 days ago
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First of all, let’s see some photography of the typhoon.
Typoon totally broke today’s pan, boating,climbing and party.
Saturday, September 13th, 2008, 723 days ago
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We asked Mike Shaver, who is now Mozilla’s VP of engineering, to comment on how he views the Gecko/WebKit dichotomy today and why he believes Gecko is still important.
“I have a lot of respect for the WebKit guys, and for the work they’ve done,” he told us in an e-mail. “The web is better because they’re around and pushing hard, and Mozilla itself is better from the competitive push as well as cooperation ranging from new web standards to plugin interfaces to the nerdiest of implementation discussions.”
Although he respects the technical achievements of WebKit, he believes that the WebKit development model and fragmentation in the WebKit ecosystem would create serious challenges that make it unsuitable for Firefox.
“We’re getting a ton of value out of a unified engine for all our projects, from desktop to device and xulrunner to Thunderbird. If you look at the WebKit landscape right now, you see a lot of different projects there and it’s not clear how or if they’ll converge,” he wrote. “We’d obviously need to hack WebKit pretty hard to adapt it to our needs, and it’s not likely that adding another fast-moving variant to that mix would be helpful to anyone, least of all WebKit! We learned about fork maintenance and integration the hard way (and had to learn it a couple of times, to be honest), so that’s not trouble that we want to borrow.”
The WebKit governance model and Apple’s general lack of transparency are also issues that would negatively impact Mozilla if Firefox adopted WebKit.
“I think we would have a hard time maintaining our momentum and depth of community empowerment in the WebKit setting. The level of visibility around patches and review is a lot higher in our world, as one example, and we don’t have bugs disappearing into an Apple-only bug system,” he told us. “For us to come into WebKit’s world and insist on that additional transparency would be unfair and counterproductive, but to live without it wouldn’t be an option for Mozilla. Our system works for us, and their system works for them (and is in many ways less noisy), but I don’t think that any one system could work very well for both of us.”
Conclusion
My hope is that this detailed examination of Gecko’s strengths, and the effort that Mozilla has invested in overcoming its weaknesses, will help illuminate the continuing relevance of Gecko in the Mozilla ecosystem and finally put to rest dubious speculation about the possibility of WebKit adoption for Firefox.
The technical advantages of Gecko are evident when viewed objectively, and the amount of effort that would be required to make WebKit fit into the Firefox stack would far outweigh the technical benefits. As we have noted in the past, there are also reasons why the choice and diversity inherent in having multiple competing implementations is valuable, too.
There are many things the Gecko and WebKit developer communities can learn from each other, but replacing Gecko would not serve any justifiable purpose. In closing, I’ll leave you with one more thought from Mike Shaver:
“We follow WebKit as closely as anyone in the world, and we cast as critical an eye towards our technology stack as anyone in the world,” he told us. “But a brain transplant is neither practical nor likely to be useful.”
[This topic is from http://arstechnica.com, all rights reserved by original author.]
Thursday, September 11th, 2008, 725 days ago
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This is me andol. The photography was took in the work place by my colleague just after supper, as the smile you see, i have good work situation, and of course, i do this job so well that i got lots praise.
Ok, this photograpy is not the first one i took in work place, we have had a lot parties in the past two months and had so much funny. Admittedly, I really really enjoy the present job that i nearly change the oversea plan and stay here.
Althought i decided to go abroad to UK at last, this work team and so many great colleagues and even my master of internet product design and all of these make me somehow reluctant to leave here, i love working with them with passion and pate.
Thursday, September 11th, 2008, 725 days ago
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008, 727 days ago
I am going to leave present intern work, now days are counted down day by day. So before my leave from work, i must aggregate all my these two months experiences and feeling.
i’d like to tell some of my sentiment of work for the last two months’ intern. There are three problems i found, the first is CORE STRATOGY. Dim stratogy is dangerous. The second is team cooperation flow. Working flow is fatal to the team working, one this part, the other one another part and suck like this. The third is speed. I think the internet application development should be develped rapidly and evoluted quickly as the users’ feedback comes back.
Although there are many problems and some difficulties else existed, i beleive this project’s future is everbright, of course the condition is to integerate all the available resources and clear the employees’ responsibilities and work flow.
