Comments on: Yahoo Offers Limited Release Of BrowserPlus

By: tech_dummy

tech_dummy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:18:47 +0000

what do they mean by devices. Is it designed to run on a set-top box?

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Yahoo、「BrowserPlus」をデベロッパー向けに一部リリース — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:45:50 +0000

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By: Techstuff

Techstuff — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:34:44 +0000

Hmmmmmmmm

By: SCOGOSTOLOGY.COM

SCOGOSTOLOGY.COM — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:39:30 +0000

This what looking into to explore its potentials. Yahoo is still a great company as long as the Great Beast do not swallow it up.

By: jr

jr — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:24:32 +0000

Heh. I don’t think that browserplus was really meant to compete with something like Gears. It’s going after a different problem (possibly one closer to the sort of thing activex and XUL does where the browser is opened up a bit more to the host system, but hopefully a great deal more secure). Heck, I’m guessing that there’s no reason that BrowserPlus and Gears couldn’t work together just fine.

As for the “sudden burst of innovation”, yeah, it’s mostly stuff being allowed to see daylight. There was always a strong sense of innovation, but there were things that were considered more important and thus some stuff got shelved that really shouldn’t. Yahoo really is a very different company lately.

By: YDrive

YDrive — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:45:09 +0000

Nice!

By: Patrick Grote

Patrick Grote — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:59:20 +0000

Jon …. you are dead on, and I thought the same thing.

Where was this drive to innovate before? To be on the edge? A leader?

It seems at this point they’re just throwing stuff on the wall to see if it sticks.

Karl … I am sure they’ve been in development, but I think they key here is that they weren’t going to be offered to everyone, right? Three years in development puts it before Yang took over, which means it was developed in the “media” days.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:49:48 +0000

Great – so now I have to have ANOTHER framework installed? Gears, BrowserPlus, AIR, Silverlight… when will it end? Could we maybe establish one or two standards, please?

By: Nasir Jamal

Nasir Jamal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:37:26 +0000

Yahoo must gear up if it wants to compete with Google.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:33:12 +0000

http://help.yah...s/other_os.html

This is probably the lamest thing I have ever read on the internet.

That being said since our new project uses YUI, I think that this should be weaved into YUI.

By: Peter Urban

Peter Urban — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:29:37 +0000

So is this something that enables development of offline versions of online apps?

Maybe I have been too long in the basement building our app but why again is Yahoo so desperate for that deal? I can see that Microsoft kind of needs it to keep up with big G and to finally get their foot into a real web business. But to Yahoo! has always been a hodgepodge of services and kinda got away with it, so why wouldn’t they be able to continue that route.

By: Michael Kimsal

Michael Kimsal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:21:34 +0000

I only see a half-baked list of questions with no substantive answers. I see no download/install option, even though the questions mostly concern installing and uninstalling software. Is this an ‘invite only’ thing?

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:18:25 +0000

Most of the stuff being released as of late has been in works for much longer than the MS deal and their release schedules have nothing to do with MS but rather they’re merely done now. In the case of BrowserPlus it’s 3 years worth of technologies(some on other products, that are already released) that are now being released for public use in this form.

By: Chacha102

Chacha102 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:53:10 +0000

Honestly, I think they are trying to show people that there really isn’t an imminent (Spelling courtesy of Firefox. ) downfall of Yahoo, and that if they don’t need to take the deal to survive as a company. Now if anyone actually believes it, its a whole other story…

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:49:11 +0000

Is it just me or has Yahoo gone into overdrive with product and service releases since Microsoft announced they will try a hostile takeover of the company?

Jon
http://dreamclue.com …get the message!