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adamkhrona

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About adamkhrona

I am the founder of Khrona.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #3861558

    This is good: it's totally insecure to pass auth credentials in plain-text URLs.

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    Comment #3786856

    Same here, as a developer of a cross-platform library, this is the only configuration that works for us. By restricting virtualization of OSX, Apple has effectively forced most dev…

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    Comment #3784820

    San Francisco (SOMA), CA - Biz Dev Commando - Contract to Hire (awesomium.com) Live in SF? Got some business sense? Wanna join a startup that's blowing up? Sweet! We need a busines…

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    Comment #3722529

    Just to add to this, the "special characters" are "%E2%80%AE" which is the escaped form of the UTF-8 "Right-To-Left Override" control character (which effectively reverses the disp…

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    Comment #2830997

    Hey guys, thanks for the interest in our library! We're actually getting ready to launch a massive update (1.6.2) to Awesomium in a couple days (new tutorials, new SDK, new .NET wr…

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    Comment #2830983

    Hey, main developer of Awesomium here-- allow me to answer your question: Awesomium 1.6 was designed from the ground up with the following goals in mind: * Must render to a 32-bit …

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    Comment #2830960

    Indeed-- there's a lot of demand for this kind of component in .NET (especially considering the limitations of the built in WebBrowser class). Our .NET wrapper is open-source and u…

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    Comment #2830947

    I'm the main Awesomium developer-- the 1.6 branch is based off a stable revision from April 2010. We've recently updated to the latest Chromium trunk and will be launching an exper…

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    Comment #2830902

    Not exactly-- awesomium can be used for both headless rendering and embedded GUI rendering. It outputs to a BGRA 32-bit pixel-buffer; it's the embedder's job to display it in their…

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    Comment #2769473

    Can't beat the Apple Cinema Display 27 inch (or if you're a PC guy, the Dell UltraSharp 27 inch). Got two of them, love them, would never go back.

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    Comment #2539053

    Thank you for the suggestions, I'll work on making the site more clear to a technical audience. Our first draft of the site was actually very heavy on the tech details but we ended…

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    Comment #2538507

    We did indeed use Chromium as a base but have implemented a great deal of extra modifications on top to make this the ideal solution for offscreen embedding. Significant portions o…

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    Comment #2360726

    We're working on a Linux port for use server-side but that's not to say our current framework is not headless. We developed this branch to be completely independent of any windowin…

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    Comment #2359284

    We created a genuinely windowless branch of Chromium two years ago named Awesomium; it's free for non-commercial use and is used in several major games and commercial projects: htt…

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    Comment #2357748

    Chrome was designed to be as simple and easy-to-use as possible; part of this initiative involved being immediately compatible with most corporate set-ups (eg, IE users on a compan…