Looks like the Browser Wars have been rekindled with this new kid on the block. Yes, Google released their oft rumoured browser in the wild.
More info on the Official Google Blog: A Fresh Take On The Browser. And for the technically inclined there’s a comicbook explaining it all. Or skip the hoopla and take Chrome for a testdrive yourself (Windows only for the moment).
Category: Internet
Internet stuff
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The Google Browser: Google Chrome (beta)
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“Thank you for taking the survey.†– 2008
A List Apart is repeating last years survey:
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide.Take the survey yourself at http://aneventapart.com/survey2008/
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Set a Firefox 3 download record at Download Day 2008
Always wanted to set a Guinness World Record? Well, now you can by simply downloading the soon to be released version 3 of the Firefox webbrowser. You don’t even have to install it. A download will suffice, thank you. But while you’re at it, why not give it a try.How do you participate? Go pledge at the Download Day 2008 site that you’ll download Firefox 3 when it gets released. They’ll send you a reminder when it’s going to happen.
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“Thank you for taking the survey.” part 2
Back in April A List Apart held a survey among people working in the ‘web-industry’:
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.And *drumroll* here are the final results. Findings From the Web Design Survey
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Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Released
And another official one down! Less than a week ago Microsoft upped their browser to a 7.0 version. This time it’s the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Firefox is now a 2.0. Yes, improved tabs, RSS discovery, looks, spell-checker for form-fields with downloadable dictionaries,… Get Firefox. If you dare.
I wonder how many extensions are borked this time. Let me tell ya in a minute…
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IE7 Released
It’s official! Internet Explorer 7 is here, for the general public that is. Nuff said. Go download IE7. If you dare.
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Watching the sea-level rise, virtually.
Here’s an interesting Google Maps implementation: Flood Maps.What if the sea-level where to rise? .. Because the polar ice-caps are melting at an alarming rate … Would you be able to keep your feet dry? Now you can find out for yourself. (And maybe decide about that piece of real-estate you’ve layed your eyes on. ;-))
As a resident of The Netherlands this is all old news. As I have had virtual wet feet all my live. But still it’s a nice *cough* mashup.
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Major Google Earth Update (Maps to follow)
Read all about it on the Official Google Blog: Happy Birthday, Google Earth:
We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of Google Earth that we decided to celebrate a bit early. Beginning today, you can download a brand new version, Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? Ditto. Yes, we’re releasing simultaneously for PC, Mac (universal binary for full performance on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs) and for the first time ever, native support for popular Linux distributions. And we should say “salut,” “ciao,” “hallo,” and “hola” to our French, Italian, German and Spanish users, because Google Earth is now fully localized for those languages in addition to English. This includes a UI localized to French, Italian, German, and Spanish, as well as local search, driving directions, geo-coding, and unique local information layers for those countries.
And… better resolution, KML for Maps, geo-coding, Maps for Enterprise …
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Get Firebug!
if ((bWebDeveloper || bWebDesigner) && bFirefox) { try { var oNewExtension = new cExtension(); oNewExtension.fetchXPI = fnFetchURL("www.getfirebug.com"); oNewExtension.installXPI(); if (oNewExtension.success) { console.log("Firebug installed successfully."); var oFurtherOptions = getElementById("divTellUser"); oFurtherOptions.innerHTML = "About FireBug" oFurtherOptions.innerHTML += "FireBug Screencast" oFurtherOptions.innerHTML += "FireBug Overview" } } catch(e) { throw "Next time Gadget, next time!" // Take a look at the lower right corner... } }
Now if only I were able to debug that… 😉
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Visualising the DOM for fun
The Document Object Model, or DOM as it is known better, is usually visualised as a tree. For instance with the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar or DOM Inspector / Firebug for Firefox. But there are other more fun ways, like Aharef did.
