Category: 'Browsers'
Who’s using the Search Bar anyway?
Posted on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
While browsing to Yahoo! this bar on top struck me. Click to enlarge: Apparently Yahoo! is promoting the Search Bar, which is standard issue in Firefox. Guess they want us to change the default Google setting. This in turn made me think of the times I used that Search Bar. Probably once, the first time [...]
Posted in Firefox, General, Google, MSN Search, News, Search, Yahoo | No Comments »
Opera 9.0 Tech Preview 2
Posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
Opera Labs: We’ve released a technology preview of Opera 9, codenamed Merlin, on Opera Labs. There are some very cool features we want you to try: Widgets, BitTorrent, Customized Search, Content Blocker, Pop-up Blocker, Site Specific Preferences, Tab Thumbnail Preview. Robert Accettura’s Fun With Wordage » Blog Archive » Opera 9.0 Tech Preview 2: For [...]
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Finalists for the Extend Firefox Contest announced
Posted on Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Extend Firefox Contest Finalists :: Mozilla Update: We are happy to announce the finalists in our Extend Firefox Contest, a contest held to award the best and brightest extension developers in the Firefox community. The contest asked entrants to create Firefox Extensions that are innovative, useful, and integrate with today’s Web services. Over 200 Extensions [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Utilities | No Comments »
Oops… Firefox Update Failed…
Posted on Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Guess I’ll have to download the entire updated 1.5.0.1 package. Oh well… better than an endless download/update loop. Update: Well, it seems that the update also failed on my WinXP box. Update 2: If you’ve found that your automatic update to Firefox 1.5.0.1 went less than ideal, go visit Mike Beltzner’s blog. He’s collection user-experiences [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General | 2 Comments »
Internet Explorer 7: Beta 2 Preview available
Posted on Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
It’s public! So if you want to have a go take a look at the Internet Explorer 7 website. But before you do so, also take a look at the IEBlog: IE7 Beta 2 Preview Available Please send us your feedback on the IE7 Beta 2 Preview Please test your sites with IE7 Frequently Asked [...]
Posted in Browsers, Design, Development, General, Internet Explorer, News, Webdesign, WebDev | No Comments »
Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2006
Over at Google Code they ran a survey, in December 2005, looking at a couple of webpages trying to find out which elements and their respective attributes are used most. And more importantly how they are used. We took a sample of slightly over a billion documents, and looked at what elements were used on [...]
Posted in Browsers, Development, General, Google, Internet, Webdesign, WebDev | No Comments »
Which Browsers matter in 2006?
Posted on Thursday, January 26th, 2006
If you are planning to build or rebuild a site this year you may wonder at some point which browsers you should support. If not, you should! Just looking at your new design in IE 6 is no guarantee it works and behaves the same in any other browser. Not that long ago the browser [...]
Posted in Apple, Browsers, Design, Development, Firefox, General, Internet Explorer, Opera, Webdesign, WebDev | No Comments »
RE: Adobe looking for a Gecko expert
Posted on Friday, January 20th, 2006
That is what the below job offering says. But I’m not quite sure what it is they’re building. Remember the Adobe & Macromedia merger? So it’s quite obvious that the the product lines of both will be merged. Meaning Flash and PDF …
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The Orange Icon, part 2
Posted on Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Microsoft has decided. The feed indicator in IE 7 is still orange! Most surprisingly it’s the same one that Firefox has. Well, not so much of a surprise, because it was the Mozilla foundation who kindly ‘donated’ it: Thanks again to the Mozilla team for making the icon available and helping us do the right [...]
Posted in Atom, Browsers, Design, Firefox, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, News, RSS, Webdesign, Webfeeds | 1 Comment »
Other december 9 surprises
Posted on Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Besides the release leakage of GE for Mac. Del.icio.us take-over Like Yahoo! taking hold of del.icio.us. Just as LookSmart did with Furl. Update: The take-over sounds a little strange to me as Yahoo! was working on it’s own del.icio.us/Furl with their My Web 2.0 BETA. Which can save ‘personal’ pages and tag them. We’ll see [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Internet, News, Utilities, Yahoo | 2 Comments »