Feb
24
Thursday morning President Obama introduced a Consumer Bill of Rights. Google, Yahoo!, AOL and Microsoft are all stating they will voluntarily comply with the bill. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome already have ‘do not track’ options even though they are rarely used. That is the main component of the Bill of Rights. For now all [...]
Aug
12
Web Intents is a new framework launched by Firefox and Chrome, the two leading open source browsers, which will make apps run seamlessly across browsers. Right now each browser has its own set of apps, and developers need to make separate apps for the different browsers. Web Intents will ease this burden on developers and [...]
Mar
23
Firefox 4 was just released and within 24 hours it had been downloaded nearly 7 million times. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 only barely topped 2 million downloads in the same amount of time. Microsoft will claim Internet Explorer is the most popular browser in the world, but that is a measure of possession and not [...]
Sep
20
Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, and the next edition of Google Chrome are all claiming to integrate “Hardware Acceleration” which increases the graphics capacity of browsers by accessing the computers modern graphics chip. This should be of particular interest to designers of advertising as it should increase the capacity of advertisers to use more sophisticated [...]