Firefox is a tight - propel app , and now you may take a quick gander at the first Alpha version of Firefox 3.0 , the next iteration of the open - source browser app for Windows , Mac and Linux nickname Gran Paradiso . On the surface , it does n’t look that different from the current version of Firefox ( which we find to be unacceptably unstable , by the way ) .
Its innovations are under the hood , where it enhance compatibility with three fox - out graphic monetary standard that might soon be ubiquitous on the WWW : Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) , the Canvas specification , and the cairo graphics subroutine library . Sounds great , but what does all this stuff and nonsense do ? They all have to do with making WWW pages calculate the same on any chopine , and scaling up computer graphic without deprivation of quality .
Explanations , plus the download radio link , after the jump .
Scalable vector graphicshave been around since 2001 , and the idea here is to have a received nontextual matter format on the Web ( the way jpeg and gif have become ) that uses transmitter , that is , description of where line will go rather than single acid of each computer graphic that comprise bitmap images such as jpeg and gif . These artwork can be scaled up or down without any loss of resolution .
What about Canvas?It ’s another next - gen Web engineering that ’s similar to Scalable Vector Graphics but adds the element of brio , where JavaScript code can get at a determine area and dynamically draw on graphics such as graphs and animations .
The Al Qahira artwork libraryis another transmitter - based graphics enabler that can apply computer hardware acceleration that ’s already in Firefox and has been since version 1.5 . Cairo can work with the Quartz graphics railway locomotive in Mac OS X , as well as OpenGL .
There ’s nothing quite like the speed of clear - source development , but we wish reading 2.0 of Firefox would be perfected before any rarified adventures set out on the next stage handout . But that ’s just us .
Download Firefox 3.0 Alpha Here[Mozilla , vialifehacker ]
https://lifehacker.com/download-of-the-day-firefox-3-0-alpha-windows-mac-lin-220744
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