Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

Ever wonder what that website is made of?

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Today I read a Linux Magazine article hilighting some of Chrome’s 3000 extensions.   A particular one that caught my attention is called BuiltWith Technology Profiler.

BuiltWith does what its title says: it profiles a site for the technologies it uses, and then gives you a little report. I like how it picks up on Cufon [...]

Is your browser secure?

Friday, September 11th, 2009

HTTPS. SSL. CA. CRL. OCSP. Cessation of Operation. Confused yet?

Firefox 3 seems to be very proactive in the area of web security. Sometime last night, a client’s SSL certificate got inexplicably revoked by GoDaddy. Firefox was kind enough to give a big fat warning message that the certificate had been revoked, blocking access [...]

Timezones and Timeouts

Friday, June 19th, 2009

The secure pages at one site we developed require one to login with a username and password — a successful login will create a session cookie that keeps a user logged in for one hour.

Now our client reported a problem with one of their computers accessing the secure section of the site.  A user could [...]

Browser Share: Or “What’s SeaMonkey and Do I Care?”

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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Which browsers should you make sure your site supports? There are certainly a lot out there (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, Konqueror…and SeaMonkey, to name a few).

It’s not possible to support every browser to the same degree, and the right answer [...]

Coming to a Computer Near You: Internet Explorer 8

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

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Microsoft released the IE8 Web browser in mid-March but is now pushing it through the automated Windows Update (over the last month, we’ve seen visits from IE8 more than double across a number of sites we monitor, up to almost 5% of all visits).

Why should you [...]

AtomPub Protocol (APP) Introduction

Monday, April 13th, 2009

I’ve been doing some research for the ImagineNetwork project and have looked at the APP. I am writing a brief summary of APP and placing a few links here in this post for people reference.

Oh Microsoft, how thoughtful! (IE8)

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Microsoft has thoughtfully allowed site owners to automatically tell IE8 browsers to render in “compatibility mode”. They stress that this is supposed to be a temporary solution, but it’s really easy. Two routes:

IE8 released for download today

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

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Push won’t start for a little while. It’s supposed to be better at being standards-compliant, which “causes problems for sites that were optimized for IE”.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10199582-56.html

How Changing a Button Increased a Site’s Annual Revenues by $300 Million

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

People don’t want to “be in a relationship” with an e-commerce site… they just want their stuff.

http://www.uie.com/articles/three_hund_million_button/

Browser Share – IE losing ground

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

IE: 67.6%, (down 7% on the year)
Firefox: 21.5% (up 3%)
Safari: 8.3%

IE6 dropped from 30.6% to 19.2% over a year. IE7 rose from 44.0% to 47.3%

Statistics by Net Applications.

Read the full article: IE slips further as Firefox, Safari, Chrome gain