How often should browsers upgrade?
The latest issue of the UK's .net magazine features an interview (update: the interview is now available to read here) with the general manager of the Internet Explorer team, Dean Hachamovitch.
He raises the point that not every internet user wants their browser upgraded every year, saying:
During the open mic session [at the Mix conference], [...]
9 January 2007 in Browsers, Interviews, News
The rise of IE7
Last month I did an audit on some websites I manage to see what kind of take-up IE7 had; the figure varied between 1% and 12% of total visitors. Now that Microsoft have placed the new browser into the automatic download programme, I decided to go back and revisit the stats again.
27 December 2006 in Browsers
New text declarations in Webkit
The Webkit project have announced support for a new range of CSS declarations, to be used for putting strokes around text. This strikes me as a little strange for two reasons:
22 December 2006 in Browsers, Declarations
Variable take-up for IE7
I went through the logs of some of the sites I own or manage today, to see what kind of uptake there’s been for IE7. From ten sites, some business and some personal, the percentage of users varies between 1% and 12% using IE7.
23 November 2006 in Browsers
IE.next to support CSS3 colours?
The Internet Explorer team are asking (again) for input on most-wanted improvements for the next version of IE. Most of the work seems as if it will be focused on Javascript and the DOM, but as you can see on this wishlist there are also requests for CSS updates – including support for RGBA, HSL [...]
CSS Selector test updated
Last week we unveiled the CSS selector test over at css3.info. The test consists of over several hundred separate test cases, each designed to test a certain aspect of the compatibility of your browser with the CSS selector standards. Today we are going to expand the number of test cases to [...]
16 October 2006 in Browsers, CSS3 Previews
Even more Konqueror CSS3 goodness!
KHTML, the Konqueror rendering engine, has received another upgrade – and with it, more implementation of the still-officially unannounced CSS3!
According to the release notes, KHTML 3.5.5 now has support for the HSV/HSVA color values. I must confess to being a little baffled by this; the CSS3 color module names HSL/HSLA values (of which HSL is [...]
11 October 2006 in Browsers
Konqueror implements new background declarations
The latest version of the Konqueror browser, 3.5.4, supports more CSS3 declarations.
background-origin, background-clip and background-size are all supported with the proprietary -khtml- prefix. We’ll update our pages soon so you can test them for yourselves.
See the full list of changes for the latest release here.
I’ve said it before, but it’s really a shame that probably [...]
30 September 2006 in Browsers
Links for CSS developers
A couple of links with some relevancy to CSS3:
CSS Shortcomings: Why CSS2 isn’t perfect for layout, and what’s in the CSS3 spec to correct that.
IE7: Old Bugs for New: Microsoft’s next browser won’t be helping to push the web forward; it’s so full of bugs that even current pages may not display properly.
13 September 2006 in Browsers
CSS changes in IE7
The Internet Explorer team have released a list of all the CSS changes which have been introduced into IE7. As we’ve already shown there is now the beginning of CSS3 support, with a few selectors included.
Other than that, despite the many changes IE7 is still below the level of almost any other rival browser and [...]
23 August 2006 in Browsers
