April 10th, 2008
The IEBlog has a new post on HTML and DOM Standards Compliance in IE8 Beta 1. It’s a pretty in-depth article with lots of juicy details, and is well worth a read. Lots of what they cover — that you should still read in the blog post — are covered additionally in these two whitepapers:
DOM Core Improvements
During Internet Explorer 6’s long tenure as the leading market-share holder, Web developers revealed many bugs and inconsistencies in Internet Explorer’s DOM. Today, with the Internet Explorer 8 versioning plan, these bugs and inconsistencies are corrected by default, and those customers who choose to opt out of this behavior may enable IE7 compatibility mode.
Read about and download the DOM Improvements whitepaper.
HTML Improvements and ACID2
HTML uses elements to represent both structure and meaning in a document. To help developers take full advantage of the elements that HTML 4 offers, and to better provide the semantic meaning intended by Web author, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers has upgraded support of the P and OBJECT presentational elements. Through improved support of these HTML elements, Web developers may build more expressive and accessible HTML markup.
Read about and download the HTML Improvements and ACID2 whitepaper.
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April 7th, 2008
IE8 Beta 1 For Developers Now Available in Chinese (Simplified) and German
“The IE team is pleased to announce the availability of Chinese (Simplified) and German versions of Windows Internet Explorer Beta 1 for Developers. The two languages released today are fully localized versions of the IE8 English Beta 1, released March 5, 2008. They carry with them the same improved CSS 2.1 support, better scripting performance, and other features and improvements that the English beta 1 developer release contains.”
(Via IEBlog.)
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April 7th, 2008
Macworld | Review: Safari 3.1
“Macworld’s recent review of Safari 3.0.4 () highlighted the browser’s excellent—and constantly updated—support for modern Web standards. Continuing that trend, the just-released Safari 3.1 not only stays at the head of the pack in standards support, but also becomes the first browser to work with such up-and-coming technologies as CSS Animations and the audio and video tags in HTML version 5, which is still in draft mode.”
(Via Macworld.com)
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April 7th, 2008
Inside Firefox 3 video from CNET TV takes us on a 1:40 minute “Insider Secrets” tour of the ins-and-outs of the latest version of Firefox guided by Randall Bennett.
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April 2nd, 2008
Firefox 3 beta 5 portable edition available – safest way to try out FF3b5 – Download Squad
: “But you can also install a portable application like Firefox 3 beta 5 portable edition to any folder on your hard drive. Why would you want to do that? Because then you can try out the latest test version of Firefox without overwriting any of your Firefox 2 settings.”
(Via Download Squad.)
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April 2nd, 2008
In addition to today’s release, Mozilla also indicated that the source code of the final release candidate will be frozen next Wednesday, April 8th.
According to downloadsquad.com:
Firefox 3 beta 5 features tighter integration with the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating system. That means you have native icons and interface widgets. The OS X version supports Growl notifications, and the Linux version uses the native GTK theme.
According to
Mashable:
However, I can still tell you what’s new in Firefox 3 Beta 5. In continuing some of the more notable updates to the overall Firefox 3 release, Beta 5 includes more personalized options. For instance, a Places Organizer lets you better manage your bookmarks, tags and browsing history, with search capabilities, smart folders, multiple views, and saved frequent searches. That should also give you a few more restore settings to save you when your browser crashes because you’re testing Beta 5.
Other updates include integration with Windows and Macs, with improved icons and the use of native interface widgets in the browser and web forms. Linux integration also uses native icons/buttons/menu styles. Lastly, thanks to improvements to the JavaScript engine and profile-guided optimizations, the speed of Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been increased, so your apps will run faster. See here for previous coverage of Firefox 3.
Wired’s Compiler blog adds these notes about the newest beta:
- 755 bug fixes, including all Firefox 3 P1 blockers (these are the top priority must-fix bugs).
- Improved performance. Dotzler says Beta 5 is even faster than Beta 4 according to Mozilla’s own testing. We here at Compiler found that Beta 4 is already extremely fast, so that’s good news.
- This release was prepared in a very compressed beta cycle of three weeks.
Here are the official
Release Notes from Mozilla.
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April 2nd, 2008
Opera press release:
Opera today released the beta preview of Opera Mini, the newest version of the award-winning browser that works on almost every mobile phone. Opera Mini 4.1 improves the way Opera Mini interacts with your phone to make browsing more convenient, more productive and definitely more fun. Opera Mini is available to download for beta testing at http://www.operamini.com/beta
They claim it’s “up to 50% faster than 4.0.” There are a bunch of seemingly-useful features like saving sites for offline viewing, find-on-page, and auto-complete.
They have a video Opera Mini 4.1b Guided Tour.
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April 2nd, 2008
Dan Burkhart, Flock’s VP of Marketing, notes
With the decision to cease ongoing support of the Netscape browser, we are honored to have the support and endorsement of AOL and Netscape, who have introduced Flock to millions of loyal Netscape users as AOL sunsets ongoing support for the Netscape products in the field. Tom Drapeau from Netscape has been instrumental in helping increase awareness of the Flock browser, and by doing so has introduced a global audience of people to the unique experience that only the Flock browser delivers.
Flock is designed to support and enhance the way that we use the web today. We appreciate Tom’s assistance in helping get the word out, and encourage you to be a champion of innovation by telling your friends about your experience with Flock as well. If you like the idea of people working late nights to deliver a free product to you, so that you can get more enjoyment out of your daily web experience, please lend a hand.
Netscape ruled, and now Flock rocks! We’re committed to keeping the Netscape’s original spirit of innovation alive and well.
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April 1st, 2008
Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop blog is reporting Net Applications data showing that as of March 2008 84.36% of Safari users are using version 3, compared to 9.96% on version 2.0 and 5.67% on version 1.
Overall Safari usage rebounded after slipping slightly in February to match the high water mark set in January at 5.82%.
Mac OSX has 7.48% marketshare according to this data. Of that, 60.69% is using Intel chips.
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March 30th, 2007
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