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Firefox: Europe beats North America
According to French market analysis company XiTi the market share of Firefox in Europe is 14.11%. Market share in North America is only 11.78%. But Australia takes the lead with 14.41%. 😉 Zooming in on Europe, the leading country is Finland with a staggering 31.03% followed by Germany with a 24,5% market share. All in…
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IE 7 Beta 1 screenshots & reviews
The first beta of Internet Explorer 7 was released yesterday, as was the first beta of Windows Vista. Today sees the first reviews and screenshots. Flexbeta review C|Net review IE 7 screenshot from Microsoft Again, this will be only on Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista sometime next year.
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Tagzania – Tagging the planet
Someone must have thought: “What’s cool these days? Flickr, del.icio.us, tagging, folksonomy, Google Maps, RSS, KML, … What if I combined these?” Enter Tagzania. Geotagging using the Google Maps API. Or as they put it: Tagzania is about tags and places. If you register and log in, you can add places, points, to create and…
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Migrate apps from Internet Explorer to Mozilla
IBM has published a lengthy article explaining how you can make your IE only site work in e.g. Firefox, Opera or Safari. The article handles browser, DOM, JavaScript, CSS, Event and XML differences. It even touches Quirks vs. Standards mode and Rich Text Editing. Ever have trouble getting your Internet Explorer-specific Web applications to work…
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Yahoo! Finance & Corporate Egosurfing
Yahoo! Finance now offers Company News via RSS. Great for some Corporate Egosurfing. 🙂 Just go to the Yahoo! – Company News via RSS page, enter your stock symbol or symbols and cut & paste the generated feed in your aggregator of choice. See also: Corporate Egosurfing, or how to get market info for free.
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Firefox webdeveloper survival kit
Today and probably the rest of the week I’ll have to work on a loaner. The trusty laptop has to go into shop for scrutiny and hopefully some repairs. 🙁 In the meanwhile I’m looking at this barren desktop of a semi-fresh Windows XP. I’m wondering, how am I going to cram Photoshop, Dreamweaver and…
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MSN Virtual Earth Beta
MSN could not stay behind longer so they released their own Google Maps called MSN Virtual Earth. Both can display maps and/or satellite imagery. Both offer ‘local search’. Both use somewhat of the same navigation tools. But IMHO it’s not the ‘Google killer’ yet, but see for yourself. Pizza in Redmond: Virtual Earth vs. Google…
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Revelations part 1
What a day! First there will be no Firefox 1.1. Nope. Instead they decided to skip 1.1 and go for 1.5 at once. Well it actually still is 1.1 but the features warrant a 1.5 bump up. Are you following me still? 1.1 = 1.5, 1.5 = 2.0 and 2.0 = 3.0. Anyway, no real…
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Firefox 1.0.6 Released
Just a week ago I posted that Firefox 1.0.5 was released, which fixed a few security issues and promised more stability. Yet today, the Mozilla Foundation released another update to the popular browser. The last one broke some extensions, but this should be fixed now. Get your Firefox here.
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Google Moon
Totally non-WebDev, but the guys at Google just made the leap and became extraterrestrial. Today sees the launch of Google Moon. Like Google Maps, but this time from our friendly neighbouring rock. Don’t forget to zoom in all the way to see what lies beneath all that lunar dust. 😉