http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/browsers/ All about browsers and browser-related software, tips, tutorials, and latest news, especially regarding Web design, standards, CSS, accessibility, usability, browser features, bugs, cross-browser and cross-platform design, and related -- including Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, iCab, Lynx, AOL-Time Warner's role, Microsoft, and other companies and browsers. en-us Browsers Copyright 2000-2008 Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns. All rights reserved. Shirley Kaiser 2007-12-06T08:31:24-08:00 720 daily 2 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://brainstormsandraves.com/xml/brainstorms88.gif http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/category/browsers/ 88 31 All about browsers and browser-related software, tips, tutorials, and latest news, especially regarding Web design, standards, CSS, accessibility, usability, browser features, bugs, cross-browser and cross-platform design, and related -- including Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, iCab, Lynx, AOL-Time Warner's role, Microsoft, and other companies and browsers. Fascinating reading to be had about the upcoming IE8 via a new interview of Bill Gates by Molly Holzschlag: Conversation with Bill Gates about IE8 and Microsoft Transparency. Not long after the interview, the official IE Blog also announced the upcoming Internet Explorer 8. Check out the complete post that covers that interview, the IE Blog's announcement, an earlier interview with Chris Wilson (IE's platform architect), other information about the upcoming IE8, and IE's current CSS support. Also included are links to lots more resources. (907 words, 26 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/12/06/ie8/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/12/06/ie8/ Shirley Kaiser 2007-12-06T08:31:24 I've been watching my browser stats the past few months to see how quickly Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) use grows and how Firefox and other browsers are doing, too. For anyone curious about seeing trends for various sites, I created the charts below to share three of my sites' browser trends from September, 2005 through January, 2007. I also tossed in a short summary of the browser trends - you might be surprised! (574 words, 9 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/02/09/ie7/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2007/02/09/ie7/ Shirley Kaiser 2007-02-09T17:35:57 The BrowserCam pool via fundable.org that I belong to is up for its annual renewal. It has a few openings for subscribers this time around. This subscription is for the BC-Complete plan, and the cost is US $26 for the 12-month subscription via fundable.org (information below). US $499.95 is the cost otherwise, so this is a fantastic value! (261 words, 5 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/12/18/browsercam/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/12/18/browsercam/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-12-18T20:13:44 Jakob Nielsen and Andy King both have new articles at their sites that cover window resolution, user-friendly website design, and related issues. This important topic is also regularly discussed and debated in Web design and development discussion lists. Below I've highlighted their articles, but be sure to check them out in full, too (links below). (658 words, 9 links, 2 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/08/01/usability/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2006/08/01/usability/ Shirley Kaiser 2006-08-01T11:21:53 As I was doing final cross-browser testing for a redesign of SKDesigns, my website design business, the design implementation was working quite well in nearly every mainstream browser for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even the Lynx text-only browser. Unfortunately, though, I found problems with three old or little used browsers, such as Internet Explorer 5.2 for Mac that destroyed the CSS-positioned layout. I toiled over how to best handle these browser bugs, especially since my upcoming Web design book -- currently in production at my publisher -- stresses the importance of usability, readability, and degrading gracefully for older browsers. Today's post covers part of my decision-making journey and choices of approaches for dealing with these CSS bug-riddled old and little-used browsers. (2731 words, 53 links, 5 images) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/14/csstesting/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/08/14/csstesting/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-08-14T21:08:16 The WaSP (Web Standards Project) website today reported on two recent face-to-face meetings between WaSP and Microsoft as part of a new collaboration to promote Web standards and help developers build standards-conformant Web applications. The initial indications are incredibly positive, and I'm more than a little thrilled to see this giant leap forward. Read the complete post for more on this. (302 words, 6 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/21/standards/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/21/standards/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-07-21T19:40:57 This morning Opera Software announced the integration of BitTorrent into their Web browsers. It's now currently available for download as a technical preview for (TP) Windows, Linux and Mac. Read the complete post for more details, including their press release. (602 words, 7 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/07/opera/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/07/07/opera/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-07-07T15:21:20 Google Toolbar's AutoLink & The Need For Opt-Out is Danny Sullivan's thoughtful follow-up article today on the Google toolbar AutoLink feature currently in Beta testing for Windows Internet Explorer users. He presents arguments in favor of AutoLink and opposed to it, includes links to various opinions, and he expresses his own views and concerns. This one article explains it all quite well. More: See also my post yesterday, Google's New Toolbar Embeds Links Within Your Website Without Your Permission. (106 words, 4 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/02/25/moreautolink/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/02/25/moreautolink/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-02-25T21:05:07 Neil Turner, of the popular Neil's World weblog, reported last week about Google's new toolbar feature that embeds links within your website content without your permission: Google's new Autolink toolbar feature. Although Neil doesn't think it's a big deal, outrage abounds elsewhere, such as at Slashdot's Is Google AutoLink Patent-Pending By Microsoft? where this new feature is compared to Microsoft's Smart Tags ploy in 2001. (647 words, 17 links, 1 image) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/02/24/autolink/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/02/24/autolink/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-02-24T12:15:32 Robin Good reported last week that Internet Explorer has now lost 30% of the browser market and the trend is on a continuing roll. In addition, Robin predicts that by December 2005 that Internet Explorer will no longer be used by the majority of Internet users. (258 words, 6 links) http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/01/05/browsers/ http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2005/01/05/browsers/ Shirley Kaiser 2005-01-05T20:02:16