Archive of Browsers
Google detail browser support plan
I’m sure this has been mentioned before, but maybe this is more specific details, but Google have decided to only support the latest two versions of any browser. As soon as a new version is released, an older one will stop being supported. That means no more support for IE7,…
Read MoreAn upgrade path from IE6?
ReadWriteWeb reports you can Run Internet Explorer 6 Apps in IE8 With UniBrows. This sounds like a possible way for companies that rely on IE6 for certain legacy applications to upgrade to a newer browser without losing compatibility with the legacy applications. It looks like there would be some administration…
Read MoreIE9 always playing catchup
I blogged about whether IE9 will save us from IE6 when the IE9 beta was released. I just read a blog by Alex Russell – IE 8 is the new IE6 which echoes some of the same points that I made. With Internet Explorer, Microsoft seem to be always playing…
Read MoreWill IE9 save us from IE6?
Microsoft have released a beta of IE9, you can download it from http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/. It seems that the battle of the browsers these days has a lot to do with being the best and fastest for modern standards like HTML5. In the past, the weapons used were often proprietary extensions that…
Read MoreNative vs Web for Mobile
These days it seems just about everyone has an iPhone, or an Android phone.. and of course Blackberry still has a huge user base. The mobile application space is really hotting up – but what direction do you go? I have an iPhone and based on most things I use,…
Read MoreOne step closer to a ‘web/work/space UI’…
Does Tab Candy signal the slow death of the tab? It’s a strange turn of phrase, but as we do more and more online keeping tabs on everything and segregating areas of interest is becoming a more and more frustrating and complicated task when using the tabs within a web…
Read MoreGoogle going real real-time
There’s a log of talk about the real-time web these days, but most of it is talking about stuff that isn’t really real-time at all. Most of it just means when you access the data it is up to date, or in some cases it means things update for you…
Read MoreEvolution of Comet at Caplin
I have been blogging on CometDaily since before we started Platformability so thought I would take a look back and see if there was anything there that might be of interest to our Platformability audience. Early on in CometDaily’s lifetime I wrote a piece on the Evolution of Comet at…
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