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In yet another interesting turn of events, two of the biggest issues when it comes to web design and development make way for the newer, better versions of themselves. Goodbye, IE6! Asa Dotzler of Mozilla reports that IE6 usage has now been overtaken by IE8, based on the browser tracking data from Net Applications. This [...]
Round one: logo vs. title inside <h1> I like that The h1 Debate was created to tackle a very specific issue in HTML that affects standardistas and search marketers alike. It asks the question what should go inside an <h1> tag, a logo or page name?, then you cast a vote by tweeting. I expect [...]
Some chunks of good browser-related news at the turn of the new year: Firefox browser usage is more than 20% now, while Internet Explorer, especially IE6, is declining—forcibly and otherwise! Firefox market shares are rise, IE shares decline For the first time ever, Net Applications is reporting that Mozilla Firefox market shares passed 20% while [...]
In a recent developer conference in Sydney, someone asked Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer why they’re spending so many resources on their beloved browser, Internet Explorer: Why is IE still relevant and why is it worth spending money on rendering engines when there are open source ones available that can respond to changes in Web standards [...]
Opera is at it again: they’ve announced a project called MAMA, short for “Metadata Analysis and Mining Application”, which figures out what different websites are using to construct and run their pages. They used “3,509,180 URLs in 3,011,668 domains, from 217 identified countries”. How I wonder what Google would do in their shoes given their [...]
When will the next version of HTML be ready? Apparently, we have 4859 days to go before HTML5 reaches the “Proposed Recommendation” status. That’s 13 years, according to Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification. It’s been 10 years since HTML4 came out. And it will take a total of 19 years for HTML5 to [...]
Philipp Lensen of Google Blogoscope shares a comic about Google’s open source web browser called Chrome. TechCrunch has posted leaked screenshots too. I suggest you read all those links as they explain very nicely the many, many features Google Chrome has, then try it out for yourself. With all the revolutionary new features planned for [...]
Today, August 27th, marks the day Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) first came out. It’s a seven year-old browser. This little factoid is part of a battle cry by M. David Auayan to stop developing websites for IE6 by March 2009. Enter the IE Death March. Internet Explorer 6 will be SEVEN years old on August [...]
In an interesting development regarding web standards and the browser wars, Ars Technica reports that Mozilla is taking Internet Explorer’s problematic webpage rendering into its own hands starting with a plugin for HTML5′s canvas element. IE’s shortcomings won’t hold back the Internet for much longer, however, because Mozilla plans to drag IE into the next [...]
Just on the heels of the launching of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Education Task Force announces that it will create a curriculum framework for educational institutions and aspiring web professionals. This will include recommendations on course dependencies, learning competencies, readings, tools, and other resources that will help bring web [...]
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