c69's Browser Pit

http://html5-demos.appspot.com/static/webcomponents/index.html#61

You can test this now in Chrome 26, or any other browser with <x-tag> polyfill from mozilla.

Not production ready, yet, but still - ES6's Object.observe gives up to 40x speed up compared with traditional polling. (Yes, strictly speaking, Object.observe is not a part of WebComponents, but read slides, and you'll see)

Shadow DOM is enabled by default in Chrome 24. But not style=scoped, yet. Anyway, that is a start of tectonic shift, the web will never be the same* as we know it. Trust me. (* - for HTML/CSS coders, that is).

Also, there is other cool new stuff in upcoming Chrome:
- polygonal shapes added to CSS Exclusion module:
http://hansmuller-webkit.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/horizontal-box-polygon-intersection-for.html
- “clip-path” CSS property, which restricts the region of an element that can be painted is now supported.
- unprefixed window.performance and requestAnimationFrame
- like Firebug, WebInspector is now able to style its console output, thus:
'console.log("%cBlue!", "color: blue;");' will write blue text to the console, and so on.
- like Opera, WebKit now supports the @supports rule from the CSS Conditional module.
- like in Firebug and Dragonfly, the $() function now aliases querySelector rather than getElementById, within Web Inspector.
- experimental WebGL inspections
- you can now draw dashed lines in Canvas.


via Peter Beverloo.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-Future-Is-Layered
Alex Russel from Google is giving nice overview of current state of Components/Shadow DOM, HTML Templating, Mutation Observers and WebIDL [efforts]. If you are familiar with subject - jump straight to 00:27:00 (to skip the "why we desperately need all this stuff").

also, google i/o 2012 video on components:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2txPYQOWBtg

also, g+ page of W|C (what a dumb acronym):
https://plus.google.com/103330502635338602217/posts

also, Custom Elements draft:
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/spec/custom/index.html

..dropping almost to zero in North America and Europe, according to StatCounter. Growth rate in Asia and South America remains same.

Meanwhile, Opera and Safari(!) show increased growth over same period ...

I wonder what could have caused that, bug in browser detection, less advertisement, market saturation or customer dissatisfaction ? we can only speculate now.

"If browsers were girls"

by unknown author, remix of "Browseristas" by Moie Preisenberger.

"Boyz fight"

by Galit Weisberg.


p.s.: those remind me of older joke:
http://my.opera.com/c69/blog/2010/11/13/browsers-as-vehicles

update 2:
one more pic - "Browsers as girls change over time"


by Unknown author at http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=7877
via http://browseryoulovedtohate.com/post/21672567850/we-stumbled-across-this-funny-graphic-on-women-as