Archive for June, 2010
New Internet Explorer 8 Ad Campaign Begins
In effort to strengthen Internet Explorer 8 position in the market and raise people awareness, Microsoft has launched a new ad campaign.
Here’s what Microsoft had to say about it:
To prove just how vulnerable your personal information is, Internet Explorer 8 re-recreated notorious internet scams–live, off the web– in the most street-smart city in world: New York. We used hidden cameras to film reactions of real people. In the first spot we asked people to provide very personal information in order to open a new bank account which would give them a cash reward of $500. We learned that, just as it is online, it can be hard to tell the difference between the scammer and the real thing. We filmed a lot of people and nearly all of them were convinced our “bank” was the real deal.
Apple Releases Safari 5
Just as everyone expected, Apple has recently announced the availability of Safari 5 web browser.
If you haven’t yet read “Safari 5 Plausible Features” post (which turned out to be true), here’s what’s new:
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Weekly Browsers Recap, June 7th
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• Microsoft Pushes Hard with Internet Explorer 9
It looks like Microsoft IE team tries to do its best to make you forget about Internet Explorer 6/7 mess.
• Internet Explorer 6 Market Share to Reach 10% in 2010
If we analyze Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 market share trend, the following conclusion can be made.
• Mozilla to Add Weave Sync for the Next Firefox Release
It appears that Mozilla has decided to integrate data synch feature into the upcoming major Firefox release.
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Download YouTube HD 1080p and 720p Videos
Here is a nice treat for Firefox users.
KeepTube is a simple add-on that allows you to not only save 720p YouTube videos, but 1080p as well. According to extension authors, it also supports sites like:
Dailymotion (HQ MP4, FLV), Magavideo (HD/HQ FLV) Google (HQ MP4, FLV), Vimeo (HQ MP4) Break (HQ MP4, FLV), Veoh (HQ MP4, FLV), Metacafe, Spike, Myspace, Facebook, Current, Redtube and more!
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Safari 5 Plausible Features
If MacGeneration rumors are true, Apple will unveil Safari 5 web browser tomorrow at WWDC 2010.
Some key features of Safari 5 include:
- Improved Performance: Safari 5 executes JavaScript up to 25% faster than Safari 4. Better page caching and DNS prefetching speed up browsing.
- Improved HTML5 support: Safari supports over a dozen new HTML5 features including Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 video, closed caption for HTML5 video, new sectioning elements (article, aside footer, header, hgroup, nav and section), HTML5, AJAX History, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML 5 draggable attribute, HTML 5 forms validation, and HTML 5 Ruby.
- Hardware Acceleration for Windows: Use the power of the computer’s graphics processor to smoothly display media and effects on PC, as well as Mac.
- Safari Developer Tools: A new Timeline Panel in the Web Inspector shows how Safari interacts with a web site and identifies areas for optimization. New keyboard shortcuts make it aster to switch between panels.
Apple HTML5 Demos
Today Apple has launched a web site to demonstrate HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript capabilities.
In case you don’t feel like downloading Safari web browser + QuickTime, here are all the demos.
Video Effects
Control media playback and apply a variety of CSS effects to video delivered with HTML5.
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Mozilla Introduces 64-bit Flavor
Back in April, Mozilla has started releasing 64 bit Firefox builds for Linux and Mac OSX operating systems.
Recently however, company has announced the availability of 64 bit nightly Firefox 4 builds for Windows as well.
If you are eager to try it out, head over to the following page and download latest release.
Keep in mind that 64 bit Java and Flash plugins have not reached final status yet.
Thanks to Shane Bundy for the news tip.
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Google Chrome OS Launching this Fall
The long awaited Google Chrome OS will be make its debut later this year, Sundar Pichai, the head of the Chrome project confirmed yesterday at the Computex Taipei.
Pichai also noted:
Chrome OS is one of the few future operating systems for which there are already millions of applications that work…
You don’t need to redesign Gmail for it to work on Chrome. Facebook does not need to write a new app for Chrome.
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Internet Explorer 6 Market Share to Reach 10% in 2010
If we analyze Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 market share trend, the following conclusion can be made:
Microsoft Pushes Hard with Internet Explorer 9
It looks like Microsoft IE team tries to do its best to make you forget about Internet Explorer 6/7 mess.
In the recent update (May 2010 IE Platform Preview), it was announced that Internet Explorer 9 is now fully HTML5 and CSS3 compliant, or that’s what MS wants you to think.
According to test results, IE9 was the only browser to pass all HTML5, SVG 1.1 2nd edition, CSS3 media queries, CSS3 borders & backgrounds, CSS3 selectors, DOM level 3 core, DOM level 3 events and DOM level 2 style tests.
Firefox 3.6.3 managed to score 100% in the DOM level 2 style test as well.
Either Microsoft “forgot” to include Google Chrome 5 Final or it was not released by the time browsers were tested.
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