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• In-depth Comparison of Web Browsers at MaximumPC

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Wed 11 Mar 2009 at 22:19

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  Blog Entry

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  There are a lot of web browsers on the market today, with a lot of marketing text and hidden agendas clouding any real evaluation of each browser. Even at Lowter, we heavily lean towards Opera. All of the graphs and speed tests are the worst, with each data set showing almost entirely different results, always skewed towards a particular browser. However, I found a great article on Maximum PC that gives a pretty detailed and fair review of the major browsers on the market. It compares the browsers on the rendering engine, the user interfa…

• Matt's Predictions for 2009

  Author

  Matt Oakes

  Date

  Sat 27 Dec 2008 at 10:50

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  Blog Entry

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  As is typical at the end of each year, we're going to make some predictions about next year and technology. I'm going to start with my five predictions and Ethan will add his five in a separate blog post tomorrow. At the end of 2009, it will be interesting to see who got what right. Microformats Prediction: Microformats will be incorporated into more websites; however, few people will make use of the extra data at all. Microformats have started to pick up steam in 2008 and are just starting to be used on mainstream websites. I think…

• IE8: Web Standards

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Mon 24 Mar 2008 at 21:00

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  Blog Entry

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  Finally, Microsoft is getting on the ball and improving Internet Explorer; a browser that lied dormant for so many years is finally receiving regular signs of improvement. Of course, because Internet Explorer did not improve standards-wise for so many years, it remains far behind other browsers, such as Opera and Firefox. However, Microsoft has recently announced the development of Internet Explorer 8 and they have released a beta version of the browser. IE8 shows a number of CSS improvements, although it still is lagging behind Opera and Fi…