Category: Web Browsers
Avant Browser To Use 4 Rendering Engines
It looks like web browsers with dual or triple rendering engines are becoming more and more popular (thanks to Maxthon and Lunascape).
Earlier this month, the Avant team has a released a dual engine web browser, which as it turns out, wasn’t good enough.
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Update Your Parents’ Browser Day
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal came up with it as a practical avocation for the day after Thanksgiving, when many people are paying their folks at home a visit.
Madrigal proposes that if you cannot dissuade your parents from keeping Internet Explorer 6 because YouTube will stop working, “wait until they slip into a tryptophan induced coma and then sneak into the den.”
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“Occupy HTML Movement” Tries To Occupy HTML5
Another day, another movement.
It looks like some folks are not happy with the Occupy Flash movement that has been going on and decided to create one of their own.
What is it all about?
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10 Awesome HTML5 Games
Weekend is just around the corner and you might have some time to waste, so why not launch your web browser and try some of the HTML5 games?
Internet Explorer Falls Below 50% Market Share Mark
Months and months after the continuous Internet Explorer’s market share decline, Microsoft’s web browser has finally breached the 50% mark and now sits at the 49.58%, down from 50.97% (1.39 point decrease).
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Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape In 1994
Remember the great web browser war in the 90s? Internet Explorer vs. Netscape, the battle of two titans.
Turns out, things might have taken slightly different turn. According to Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript language, Microsoft tried to acquire Netscape back in 1994, just before the Netscape Navigator release.
Thankfully, it did not happen and a monopoly was avoided, at least for some time.
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Mozilla Responds To Microsoft’s Claims
Recently, Microsoft has created a new web site, designed to highlight the advantages of the Internet Explorer web browser. As it turns out, Mozilla did not like the idea of such page at all and has responded to the software giant claims.
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Run Ubuntu In Your Browser With HTML5
A whole desktop experience recreated using HTML5 to demo what Ubuntu looks like.
The Maxthon 3.1 Story (Or How I Slayed The Dragon)
During my Chinese web browser “Maxthon 3.1 Beta”, review (which is yet to come), I saw an innocent looking button, which suggested me to download some themes, little did I know that this would turn into a nightmare…
The story goes like this… I click on the button to check some themes and strange thing happens: it redirects me to a forum. No problem, I thought, it’s just a Beta, maybe there are no official skins yet.
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