Romanian browser usage trends 2010
Following the success of my last year study about browser usage in Romania i decided to repeat the study this year, around the same time (June – middle of the year). The methodology is the same , i took browser data from trafic.ro for a few sites (the most visited in Romania) and made an [...]
Fatality: Google drops IE6 support in 2010
Just received it on email from the Google Apps team: “In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, [...]
Apology letter to Firefox
I must apologize to you for my thoughtless action to embrace Google Chrome so swiftly. I was wrong. I admit that now. I never had any issues with you besides your appetite for memory. You really like eating all the memory you have available. But after all i bought 4 gigs of RAM for you. [...]
Google Chrome in Internet Explorer!
Most modern web browsers support HTML5, a standard that allows web sites to have features that previously only desktop applications had. Also most modern web applications use heavy javascript code to create the functionality of the site. Unfortunately Internet Explorer isn’t supporting HTML5 yet. And developers can’t ignore this, because IE is used by a [...]
Opera and Typo3 ? Thanks but no thanks.
I’ve downloaded a while ago Opera 10 and once in a while i open it up just to see how it works and how it evolves. But a few days ago i decided that i try to work on it for a full day to get a more comprehensive image of what can this browser [...]
Popup management in the new Google Chrome
I’ve upgraded today to the latest version of Google Chrome available on the dev channel and finally popup management is available in Google’s browser. I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. I even made a post about how much i hate the lack of popup management in Chrome. Theme support also has been [...]
Romanian browser usage trends
I’ve recently made a study about the browsers preferred by romanians. I don’t claim this study to be 100% accurate but it can be useful in some situations. The methodology was simple. I took the browser data for a few of the largest romanian sites listed in Trafic.ro (a web statistics system which provides browser [...]
HTML and Javascript code to crash IE6
I’m a declared adversary of IE6. I even wrote about it a while ago. Now i saw that Cats who code wrote an interesting post with the title 6 HTML and Javascript codes to crash IE6. My favorite is this one : <STYLE>@;/* These code snippets should be everywhere and people who still use IE6 should [...]
Chrome Experiments and Extensions
Or could i call this post just Javascript is the future ? It seems that Google indeed has big plans with Chrome. That’s why they built in a very advanced and fast Javascript engine called V8. This Javascript engine will allow developers to create highly advanced applications that run directly in the browser without any [...]
Google’s browser security handbook
I’ve received today a link to this Browser security handbook written by Michal Zalewski from Google. It is an excellent document worth reading by every webdeveloper. The author does a very thorough comparation of security features of modern browsers, so this document can be handy to check it up when you design/develop a web application [...]
Two annoying Chrome issues
I’m using Chrome heavily lately for work and for regular browsing. I’ve come accross two annoying issues that just ruin my Chrome experience. 1) When i type a domain name without “www” and the particular domain is not configured correctly it will give me an error. Firefox just ignores this and tries the domain with [...]
The future of internet browsers
An interesting concept presented by Chris Beard from Mozilla Labs. It is interesting to see how they imagine the future of web browsers. The mix of 3d rendering and user interaction is in the focus of this so called Aurora project.
