We spoke to Håkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera and spoke about the latest trends in open web standards.Håkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera, and creator of CSS From what we understand, CSS3 is now being developed in a modular fashion, so parts of it can become standardised while other modules are still being worked on. What are some of the CSS3 modules that are near being recommended? Yes, you're right, CSS3 is modular. And it's probably about somewhere between 20 to 30 modules. And we can't do all of them at the same time. Some are being actively developed by all browsers and they are the ones that are closest to being mature, whereas others are more experimental. Some of them may never really become a standard. So there's little bit of everything in it. I think it's due to the...

It is nice to see that the creating a new tablet version of KDE software isn't coming in the way of releasing desktop / netbook versions of the desktop environment.A great many changes have come this time around, in fact the past few releases have involved the rewriting and increasing number of widgets in QML for better performance and to make them easier to modify in the future.Here are some of the main new features you can get in the latest release: QtQuick can now be used for creating widgets, allowing for more adaptable widgets that work across form factors. The KDE Plasma Workspaces now feature six different window switchers, and it is possible to create custom ones using QML. The device widget too is now QML based KSecretService is a standard complaint way of storing...

No, this is not yet another alternative to JavaScript, instead Rust is a new programming language designed for desktop applications.According to the Rust website "Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries – both abstract and operational – that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency."Currently Mozilla has no plan to rewrite Firefox in Rust, rather they intend to use Rust "as a platform for prototyping experimental browser architectures" and to develop a new browser that has better...