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Tag: Browser

Browser Size: View Your Website How Others View It

The Google developers Arthur Blume and Bruno Bowden have published a little tool showcasing web designers which website parts are visible in other users’ browser windows.

EU Settles Web Browser Arguement With Microsoft

According to a Press release, the EU Commission approved Microsoft’s proposal to facilitate downloading alternative browsers in a Ballot Screen. Today, the Brussels Commission affirmed the Software Giant’s pledges to be mandatory and thus reconciled a cartel proceeding.

Google Chrome: 300 Extensions Launched

Since yesterday, the Google Chrome Extension Gallery is available. Some weeks ago, Google has integrated an extension system into their web browser Chrome. 300 extensions are ready for installation.

Browser Ballott: Microsoft and EU Might Come to Agreement

A contract to choose a default browser for Windows might be probable—revealed the financial news agency, Bloomberg in a report. “We’ve concluded our discussions with Microsoft,” Phillip Lowe, director general of the commission’s competition department, said in an interview at Brussels yesterday.

How-to: Staying secure on the Web while being abroad

When it’s all about your own computer, things are normally not that important. But when you are abroad, for example using the Web on your friend’s computer or in a public school or library, you should be concerned about the security and privacy of your data. Especially when you want or have to sign in [...]

My browser is a bad guy :(

“Windows Live is designed for you, but maybe not for your browser.” This was what I saw on my screen when I opened Windows Live Calendar with Google Chrome. The alert advises me to use either Internet Explorer 6 or higher, Safari 3 or higher, or Firefox 2 or higher, in this order. Questions arising [...]

Opera Unite vs. Windows Live, or: How will the client-server future look like?

Opera Unite, released as Beta on 16 June, can transform any computer into a web server. How might the underlying idea this affect our daily web usage? Once upon a time, web servers were invented. These used to serve first static, then dynamic content to clients, to us. The basis was simple: a small group [...]

Messenger Web Toolkit on MSDN Channel 9′s Knowledge Chamber

From what I have seen from the MIX09 web conference until today, there is quite a big interest in the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit and its features. Adding Messenger to your own website kind of amazes people and thus the interest in being able to do that is quite big as it allows you [...]

Internet Explorer 8 released

After some two years of development, Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Final, wanting to get their hands back on the market percents lost to other browsers in the recent years. The strategy is adding some new functions and reinventing the existing IE functionality. Internet Explorer 8 has been released for Windows XP, Windows Server [...]

Memory on Fire[fox]

Google Chrome released out of beta

Future of Internet Explorer 8