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, [...]
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 [...]
Upgrade your browser!
Often i found myself wondering about why people use some antique and insecure software. For example Internet Explorer 6. This browser was launched back in 2001 and many many people still use it. Now when Internet Explorer 8 is about to be launched. In fact if you look in the statistics of any high trafic [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 released
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 RC1. You can find it here. The final launch is probably in the first half of this year. The question is how many people will make the switch, because i’m horrified by the large number of people still using Internet Explorer 6 years after Internet Explorer 7 has been released.
