It’s not about Webkit, silly. It’s about evolution.

« Webkit is a rust bucket. We can’t move away from it, because our users rely on its bugs as much as on its features, but it’s based on deprecated technologies, concepts that don’t scale anymore, and it just won’t match today’s needs or hardware. If we had any choice, we would dump the whole thing and restart from scratch. »

Trusting your desktop to the web: Safety in Air, Silverlight and Prism

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the safety of extensions to Web browsers. In the meantime, the landscape of web browsing has changed a lot, at least for developers. Why ? Because of Adobe Air, Microsoft Silverlight and Mozilla Prism, three tools used to put the web on your desktop.

While none of these products is actually new — they are all renamed versions of things that have been hanging out in the air for some time — and none of these products is branded as web browsers, well, that’s exactly what they are. Of course, whenever new browser or browser-like products appear, one of the main questions should be: how safe are they ?

Let’s take a somewhat deeper look.