With the advent Google Chrome there has been a lot of media coverage regarding the browser’s uptake and how it will compete with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. This is where the User Agent becomes most valuable.
Tags: Apple, Browsers, Chrome, Chrome's address bar, encryption, Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Google Inc., HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol, Internet Explorer, Internet users, Microsoft, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, mobile phones, Mozilla, Official Build Google Inc., Opera, operating system, Safari, United States, url, User Agent, web crawlers, Web Standards era, webmaster, windowing system, Windows NT, X11
This weeks Computer Weekly magazine’s Downtime section has an interesting story: In what is likely to be better news for men than women, Microsoft’s latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, boasts a feature that allows users to hide the trail of their web browsing.
Tags: advertisers, adverts, Browsers, Computer Weekly, content network, Google, IE8, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft, online advertisers, revenue, web browsing
The Web Standards Project (WaSP) is to expand its scope of collaboration with Adobe to advance web standards. Having successfully completed its initial goals for assisting Adobe’s Dreamweaver team in supporting Web standards, the Web Standards Project’s Dreamweaver Task Force will be renamed the Adobe Task Force to reflect its widened scope. The Adobe Task Force will collaborate with Adobe on all of the company’s products that output code or content to the Web, and will continue to advocate compliance with Web Standards and accessibility guidelines by those who use Adobe’s products to design and build Web sites and applications.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Task Force, Apple, Browsers, company's products, Dreamweaver, editor, Expression Web, Microsoft, Mozilla, standards, Tools, WaSP, Web Standards, Web Standards Project, Web Standards Project website, Web Standards Project's Dreamweaver Task Force
Both Web 2.0 and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) almost always depend up on the browser as a common denominator. It is with the web browser that web-based applications are accessed and run, yet the browser model is rapidly reaching its limitations. Prism is part of an experiment by Mozilla designed to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop applications.
Tags: Adobe Integrated Runtime, AIR, AJAX, Browsers, Mozilla Prism, Silverlight, The Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web Browser, Web-based applications
There is a web browser that has only a vague association with modern web standards. That browser is Internet Explorer 6. Wouldn’t it be great if it supported stuff like translucent PNGs? Well, now you can add decent PNG support to IE5.5+ on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source code. This script will add near-native PNG support with full alpha opacity, with only one line in your CSS file, that applies to all <img> tags and also background images!
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By itself, Firefox is a lean and fast browser, but lacks many functions useful to a Web Developer. This is where extensions come to the rescue. Web Developers use a host of Firefox extensions to increase their efficiency. I have included a list of my most used extensions. All of these plugins are great for developing and bug testing web sites within the Firefox browser environment.
Tags: Applications, Browsers, Design, developer, extension, Firefox, The Web, User Science, Web