How often should browsers upgrade?

Excerpt: 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: Du…

WebKit developers working hard on CSS3 features

Excerpt: The WebKit developers are working hard on new CSS3 features. Last night Dave Hyatt mailed the webkit-dev mailinglist and blogged about the fact that box-shadow is now completely supported. I've quickly created a preview page for it. Then fellow CSS3 enthusiast Nicholas Shanks spoke to me on …

Using CSS3 selectors to highlight hyperlinks

Excerpt: Recently I began planning a brief tutorial on using the CSS3 attribute selectors (which are now implemented in all the latest major browsers) to add decoration to hyperlinks. Looks like I don't need to now, however, as this morning I found this article: Showing Hyperlink Cues with CSS, which explain…

Vendor specific extensions to CSS3

Excerpt: Some of you might have noticed that this site is not valid CSS, which is of course a tid bit weird for a site as this... There's a reason for this though. New CSS3 features are often "tested" by browser manufacturers by implementing them as vendor specific extensions. These are allowed by both CSS2.…

The rise of IE7

Excerpt: 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. Of 10 sites I ow…