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In-depth Comparison of Web Browsers at MaximumPC
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- Wed 11 Mar 2009 at 22:19
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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…
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Re-evaluating Safari 4
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- Mon 9 Mar 2009 at 21:24
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A few weeks ago, Matt posted about Apple's announcement of Safari 4 Beta. Now that Safari 4 has been around for a few weeks, it is time to re-evaluate it, without the glimmer that a new piece of software has. After playing around with Safari 4 for a few days, I personally noticed many of its faults quite quickly. Many others did as well, with a multitude of blog posts about Safari 4's issues popping up last week. First and foremost, Safari 4's tabs-on-top implementation is awful. Yes, it looks nice and gives even more screen real-est…
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Apple Releases Safari 4 Beta
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- Tue 24 Feb 2009 at 22:20
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Apple have suddenly released a beta version of Safari 4, their web browser, which they seem to be marketing as the latest version that people should use, so it must be fairly stable at the minute. The new features are both cosmetic and under-the-hood. The rendering engine now uses a much newer version of Webkit, which supports things like HTML 5 with offline storage and passes the Acid3 test. Safari 4 also features the Nitro Engine, a much faster JavaScript engine, which should help to keep pass with Mozilla Firefox 3.1's enhanced JavaScri…
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Do We Really Need Proprietary CSS Properties?
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- Tue 17 Feb 2009 at 20:55
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Recently, I was working on a project that utilised Webkit's CSS transforms to create a cool effect as a little extra to anyone viewing the page in Safari. Firefox 3.1 will also introduce CSS transforms to Firefox. However, Webkit uses the -webkit-transform property and Firefox uses the -moz-transform property. The question I ask is: what is wrong with just transform? Do we really need proprietary CSS properties? Isn't that entirely counterintuitive to web standards? Basically, the answer boils down to that, yes, proprietary CSS properti…
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What Kind of Browser User are You?
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- Tue 7 Oct 2008 at 15:05
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The Choose Opera blog posted a funny little chart about typical web browser users of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Apple Safari. It is funny, especially the Apple Safari row, but the chart also has a little accuracy in my opinion. IE users are generally either not informed or stubborn about switching to a better browser. Opera users tend to be a little elitist, but only because they're using the better browser (I do use Opera myself). Power users of Apple Safari are almost certainly using it for the "Private Browsing" feature, …
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Safari Passes Acid2
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- Wed 2 Nov 2005 at 7:54
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In the recent OS X update (10.4.3), Apple made a multitude of small changes and fixes. The main update (for web developers) is that Safari now passes the Acid2 test. It is the first official browser release to pass the standard's test. Both iCab and Konquerer pass in beta versions, but Safari is the first official release. It should only be a matter of time for most browsers to pass, excluding Internet Explorer. Opera and Firefox are already working on passing the test. This will be a huge improvement in standardized rendering.…
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Browser News on Macs
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- Tue 7 Jun 2005 at 6:48
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Macintosh browsers have been on the move lately, exceeding most other large players. Safari passed the Acid2 test not too long ago, being the first web browser to do so. In the past few days I've seen more activity on the Mac with Safari being made open source and iCab passing Acid2. iCab, a Mac browser, now passes the Acid2 test, the third browser to do so. Hopefully this signals the events that Firefox and Opera will make moves toward passing the standard's test, leaving IE to be the only one left. Apple has created Web Kit containin…
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