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Google Chrome Frame – Good or Bad?

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Recently Google Announced a new exciting product called Google Chrome Frame. Which is an add-on for Internet Explorer which offers Internet Explorer users all the features of other browsers without having to install a different browser (When a certain Meta tag is used on a web page)? The video Google released explains the product in a little more detail.

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Firefox 3.5 – What it means for Designers and Developers

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Most of you may have noticed that Firefox 3.5 has just been released. Here is a quick overview of what new features and improvements it has:


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Key Features

  • HTML 5 – Essentially this means more people will be able to support markup such as the video tag and footer tag, which makes the internet a more indefinable place. We can also stop using those annoying < object> tags to play flash videos (Which normally causes invalid code).
  • TraceMonkey JavaScript Engine – This makes our JavaScript run faster, which means we can use jQuery less sparingly.
  • Geo-Location – We can easily localize our users experience.
  • More CSS Features – Mainly the ability to download fonts, which gives us more freedom with typography.

If you want to read in a bit more detail the new features of Mozilla FireFox 3.5, take a look at Firefox 3.5 for developers.

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What is a Browser?

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Ever wondered how many people know what a browser is? If you haven’t this video may make you cry a little.

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Internet Statistics – April 2009 (and IE6 Death Date)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Overall April was quite an eventful month for the OS and Browser wars. On the OS front, Windows 7 (Win7) release candidate was made available to the public, which has received quite a positive response. Microsoft also started advertising how cost effective windows machines are in their “I’m a PC” advertisement campaign.

Browser wise, webmaster have been encouraged by Google to inform their IE6 users about the alternative browser available and the disadvantages of IE6. The effect this has had on IE6 users is debatable, but overall IE6 is slowly disappearing.

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IE8 now a high priority update

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

I said earlier this week that IE8 will soon be a high priority update; well today I noticed that IE8 has now reach high priority update status.

Essentially this means that IE8 is now available over windows automatic update and should slowly (over the next few weeks) start replacing most IE6 and IE7 installs.

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