10 Cool Things We'll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead
(sitepoint.com) - Inevitably, there will come a time when IE6 has a sufficiently minor audience that we can treat it like we did Netscape 4 a few years ago — as legacy technology that it no longer behoves us to support, and its remaining users as willfully stubborn individuals whom we’re not required to pander to any longer!
The Future of Firefox: No Tabs, Built-In Ubiquity
(readwriteweb.com) - Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with More...
Browser wars 2009: Firefox, Chrome, & Internet Explorer
(blogs.computerworld.com) - So, while Chrome is faster and more secure and IE 8 is vastly improved over IE 7 and 6, the bottom line is that Firefox and its friends still give me a better over-all Web experience. And, when you're like me and you need to find information quickly on the Web all day long, that's no small thing.
JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0
(theappleblog.com) - There has been a reasonable amount of speculation surrounding JavaScript speed improvements in iPhone 3.0. Testing carried out on the iPhone Simulator bundled with the SDK didn’t lead to a conclusive outcome, but benchmarking done by Wayne Pan would seem to suggest that iPhone 3.0 handles JavaScript 3x-10x faster than iPhone 2.1.
Pwn2Own 2009: Safari/MacBook falls in seconds
(blogs.zdnet.com) - Charlie Miller has done it again. For the second consecutive year, the security researcher hacked into a fully patched MacBook computer by exploiting a security vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser.
“It took a couple of seconds. They clicked on the link and I took control of the machine,” Miller said moments after his accomplishment.
Better browsers. Better standards. Better tools. So why are Web pages still breaking?
(computerworld.com) - Those who lived through the browser wars of the '90s might think that hell has frozen over, were it not for one, small problem: Users still experience plenty of problems on the Web. A recent report issued by browser vendor Opera Software ASA showed that the average page on the More...
7 Fresh and Simple Ways to Test Cross-Browser Compatibility
(freelancefolder.com) - This post is written for designers, developers, or anyone else who has struggled with testing their websites across multiple browsers.
As little as one year ago, there were almost no good options for testing cross-browser compatibility of websites. The tools out there usually had significant drawbacks — either in cost, capabilities, More...
Mozilla's mobile browser gets closer to prime time
(news.cnet.com) - Years ago, Mozilla introduced its mobile equivalent of Firefox, then-called Minimo. Minimo unfortunately largely died of boredom within Mozilla. In early 2008, however, Mozilla resurrected Minimo as Fennec, and the heavens rejoiced (though even the heavens couldn't get it installed on [Name your mobile device of choice]).
As recently announced by More...
