Internet Explorer is by far the most widely used web browser, but unfortunately, is not w3c standards compliant, so you should test your website and how it looks on the current version and perhaps as far back as version 5 or 6 to maximize browser compatibility with your website.
Using the fantastic tool above located at Browser Shots is an excellent way of testing how your website design looks accross different browsers and screens / platforms. It is an essential element of good website design that you test your website and how it looks or ‘renders’ in as many web browsers as possible.
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Handling a long list of contents is one of the oldest problems in browsing. Probably scrolling is the most common behavior to solve this problem, but after Mac OS X Dock another approach is becoming very popular. Read the more »
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ANCOUVER, B.C.–Shane Macaulay just got himself a free MacBook.
Macaulay, a software engineer, was able to hack into a MacBook through a zero-day security hole in Apple’s Safari browser. The computer was one of two offered as a prize in the “PWN to Own” hack-a-Mac contest at the CanSecWest conference here.
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Today Google announced the availability of Google Desktop for the Mac (download now available from Google’s Mac OS X software page). What’s Google Desktop, you ask? It is an application from Google, which indexes the contents of your hard drive (including applications, most files, PDFs, as well as web histories from Safari, Firefox, and Camino) and makes it searchable a la Spotlight. Our PC using friends have had this application for awhile, and it is nice to see that Google hasn’t forgotten about us Mac users.
Google Desktop for the Mac is a Universal application, requires OS X 10.4 or later, and is free.
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Microsoft released a closed beta of its new Deepfish browser for mobile devices. The browser seems to be largely influenced by iPhone’s Safari browser capabilities and looks quite a bit like it.
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