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Antique browser still has 25% market share
Posted by Gavin Shinfield on October 02, 2009
Unbeliveably, Internet Explorer 6 (IE6 — released August 2001) still has 25% market share according to Net Applications (via Mashable). Come on people, this thing is 8 years old, that’s antique in internet years.
Are you one of the refuseniks? Upgrades to good, Standards-compliant browsers are free and will greatly improve your online experience: Firefox 3 or Google chrome or IE8
A plug-in free browsing future?
Posted by Paul Sturgess on July 01, 2009
There is a vision of the future where browsing the web will no longer require third party plugins for videos and audio playback, that it will be native to the browser. All made possible through the adoption of HTML 5.
When grids fall apart
Posted by Robin Whittleton on January 12, 2009
Around a couple of years ago the “what screen resolution should we design for?” argument had mostly become irrelevant. 640×480 was out, 800×600 was mostly out and 1024×768 was a reasonable minimum. With this step change over and new grids in place life should be easy, right?
Think again. The intervening time has seen an explosion in web use on mobile devices and the future looks to only diverge from your standard 1024×768 grid you’ve settled on. So what different screens can you reasonably expect your users to view your site on?
Google to launch new web browser
Posted by Paul Sturgess on September 02, 2008
The web is buzzing with the news that Google have officially announced their own web browser and it will be released (in beta) today.
‘Google Chrome’, as it will be known, has been built from scratch, is free and is open source.
Google’s has said it’s intentions for the browser are for it to ‘drive innovation on the web’.
Highlights include:- JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8 (faster javascript – open source)
- A process for each tab (So if one tab crashes, the whole browser doesn’t crash & better management of memory)
- Task manager to view processes (Allows you to see which website is using the most memory, downloading the most bytes and abusing your cpu)
- ‘Speed dial’ home page comprising of your most visited pages
- Google Gears is built in
- Smart search directly in the address bar (aka Omnibox)
- Uses a ‘Chrome bot’ on the google crawling infrastructure to test it works against the most popular sites on the web
- The browser runs inside a ‘sandbox’ with restricted permissions to make it really secure (It cannot effect your machine or it’s processes)
- Private browsing mode
- Automatically checks against known phishing websites (These are available in an open api)
For the full low down I highly recommend you checkout Google’s comic they released.