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By Sam PascuaDeepBlueSky’s FindMeByIP is a great little site that will help all web designers and their clients to understand whysome sites look different on different browser even if they are built using web standards
Firefox 3.5 Will Arrive June 30
By Sam PascuaMozilla will release the next major version of Firefox on Tuesday, June 30, Webmonkey has learned. Mozilla confirmed the news Friday afternoon.
The company previously made a promise that it would make the browser available for download “by the end of June” this year. Since next Tuesday falls on the last day of the month, Mozilla is sticking to its word — just barely.
Read moreSniffing Browser History Without Javascript
By Sam PascuaRead more“It actually works pretty simply — it is simpler than the JavaScript implementation. All it does is load a page (in a hidden iframe) which contains lots of links. If a link is visited, a background (which isn’t really a background) is loaded as defined in the CSS. The ‘background’ image will log the information, and then store it (and, in this case, it is displayed to you).”
Great new stats tool
By Sam PascuaStatCounter has announce the launch of our new free Global Stats tool. The tool records market share of Search Engines, Browsers and Operating Systems including mobile.
StatCounter Global Stats can be used to monitor issues such as:
- how Google’s new browser Chrome is doing against Microsoft Internet Explorer
- how the iPhone is succeeding against traditional market leader Nokia in the mobile browser market
How Will the New Browsers Display Your Website?
By Sam PascuaIf your website was created more than a few months ago, now is the time to have it reviewed for compatibility with the latest browsers. Recent releases like Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3, Google Chrome and Safari 4 offer great improvements in the browsing experience, but they also present challenges for existing websites that were built to meet the technical specifications of earlier versions.
Is your site IE8 ready?
By Sam PascuaAs many of you probably already know, with the introduction of Internet Explorer 8, web pages will be displayed in Internet Explorer 8’s standards mode by default. This decision was driven by Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and their goal of helping developers in the long-run, by allowing them to write one set of code to run on all platforms. What this also means is that you should check to see if yours and your customer’s public websites are compatible with IE8.
Can You Imagine the Web in 20 Years?
By Ky NguyenThe late Eighties! Mike and the Mechanics were at the top of the charts, George Bush, Senior had just become President of the US, and a CERN contractor by the name of Tim Berners-Lee was busy writing a little paper entitled Information Management: A Proposal. In it he described a way to simplify the sharing of information among people in different locations. He gave it to his manager, Mike Sendall, who thought it was “vague, but exciting.”
Read moreBrowsers Statistics
By Ky NguyenAccording to W3C research on current browsers’ usage, IE6 is going to disappear in a short time. Lets have a look:
| 2009 | IE7 | IE6 | IE8 | Fx | Chrome | S | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.7% | 18.5% | 0.6% | 45.5% | 3.9% | 3.0% | 2.3% |
Compared to:
| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | IE8 | Fx | Chrome | S | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December | 26.1% | 19.6% | 44.4% | 3.6% | 2.7% | 2.4% | |
| November | 26.6% | 20.0% | 44.2% | 3.1% | 2.7% | 2.3% |
IE8 is coming on board. Lets wait and see how it goes, for IE8 is still on beta development and still has a lot of bugs.
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