I just noticed that the Acid2 test is today’s featured article on Wikipedia. It is a well done article that even shows a timeline of when browsers became compliant and screenshots of various browsers status. The Acid3 article is also rather good.
Posts Tagged ‘browser’
Is IE8 Trident’s Last Stand?
Randall C. Kennedy at InfoWorld wrote:
IE8 is the last version of the Internet Explorer Web browser. At least, that’s what I’m hearing through the grapevine. It seems that Microsoft is preparing to throw in the towel on its Internet Explorer engine once and for all.
There were rumors earlier this year that the IE team was [...]
How To Be More Secure With Your Data & Identity
It’s amazing how on a daily basis there’s a story about someone’s identity or data being stolen, personal info being misused, or just getting screwed via the Internet. Most of the time it’s due to a complete lack of standards regarding how people treat their digital property and identity. It’s the electronic equivalent [...]
Firefox Tip: Don’t Let Websites Resize Your Browser Window
Have a favorite website that still thinks its 1999? Resizes your browser window into a small awkward space? It can be annoying. You have that big display, and you should be able to use it. Thankfully you can prevent this. Just go into Tools-> Options and select the “Content” tab. [...]
Camino 1.5
Camino 1.5 is out. It’s a great product for Mac users. Lets face it, the best browsers are on the Mac right now. Camino, Firefox, Safari, Shiira, and OmniWeb. All provide an excellent user experience. Camino is a great balance between the Gecko rendering engine (which has the benefit of [...]
Webware 100
Vote Firefox for the Webware 100. Tell your friends.
Confusing Cross Browser UI Design
Most have heard by now that Internet Explorer is adopting the Firefox RSS icon to standardize and help users who hate having to remember what equivalent icons are. Of course this is great for users. Though I wish they were a bit more consistent with their practices. UI design cross browsers is [...]
Browser-based attacks up
An interesting article, that shows why using a better browser is an important way to keep your computer secure. Perhaps we need to tell these people to stop using IE and start using Firefox. Nudge, nudge, [elbow in the ribs].
First downloads were the big risk. Then email became the big target. [...]
IE 7 coming soon
Thanks to Asa for the heads up.
Apparantly IE 7 is in the works, with beta’s due this summer.
Should be interesting.
In other news, Firefox 1.1 due early summer. Browser Wars 2.0 round 2!
