New Internet Explorer 11 Version Includes New Document Mode

By | November 12, 2014 | 0 Comments

New Internet Explorer 11 Version Includes New Document ModeAnd other neat features.

If you‘ve already downloaded today‘s Windows 10 Technical Preview (Build 9879) then you should note the recent additions to the Internet Explorer 11, which will likely be rebranded to IE12 in the coming months.

So what has changed? First and most important: Edge (must be enabled separately), a new document mode, where the software giant has worked hard to introduce an interoperable UA string and avoid the IE-only content.
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Firefox Celebrates 10th Birthday

By | November 11, 2014 | 0 Comments

Firefox Celebrates 10th BirthdayHappy Birthday!

On November 9, 2004, Mozilla has announced the availability of Firefox 1.0 web browser, which at that time brought pop up blocking, add-ons, online fraud protection and more. Back then, even Google promoted it and lured people away from then everyone’s hated Internet Explorer.

Now, ten years later, the open source organization is celebrating 10 years of Firefox, which is currently sitting at the build 33.1 (stable).
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October, 2014 Desktop Market Share: Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari – Up; Firefox, Opera – Down

By | November 11, 2014 | 0 Comments


Starting with the Internet Explorer, it looks like Microsoft’s web browser is in the consolidation range, now up by 0.12 point, from 58.37% to 58.49%.
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October, 2014 Mobile Market Share: Safari, Google Chrome, Opera Mini – Up; Android Browser – Down

By | November 6, 2014 | 0 Comments


Another month, another report.

Kicking things off with Apple’s Safari, its market share grew by 0.41 point, from 44.63% to 45.04%.
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Opera Mini For iPad And iPhone Now Optimizes Videos

By | November 6, 2014 | 0 Comments

Opera Mini For iPad And iPhone Now Optimizes VideosIf you were happy with the data savings when using Opera Mini on your iPad or iPhone then you will be happy to know that the latest build will help you to save even more megabytes.

Thanks to the new Video Boost feature (which can be enabled via O Menu > Savings Enabled > Opera Turbo: Video Boost toggle), Opera Mini will now provide you with the video optimization service at no additional charge.

What does that mean? More data savings and less video buffering!
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Opera 27 Developer Preview Brings Bookmark Sync To Opera For Android

By | November 6, 2014 | 0 Comments

Opera 27 Developer Preview Brings Bookmark Sync To Opera For AndroidAnd the bookmark improvements continue.

Here comes a pretty neat update for all the developer preview and Android users out there. Thanks to the latest changes, you can now synchronize your Opera bookmarks across PC and Android devices.

These are not the only bookmark improvements though as the latest build also brings an option to rename or delete top level folders. Hey, every bit helps. Hopefully, next build will also allow you to hide “Shared by me” and “Bookmarks bar” folders as well as Search Box in the speed dial.
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Microsoft Announces RemoteIE

By | November 4, 2014 | 1 Comment

Microsoft Announces RemoteIEAnd it’s pretty useless.

Recently, Microsoft has announced a new and free tool that aims to help web developers to test their code on Internet Explorer, especially those running Mac OS X, iOS or Android.

While it might sound cool on the first sight, there is one problem: it allows you to test the latest version of Internet Explorer on the Windows 10 Technical Preview, which means that pretty much no one is using this browser right now and it’s useless since developers need access to older builds like IE8 and IE9.
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Mozilla To Release A Browser For The Web Developers (Video)

By | November 3, 2014 | 0 Comments

Mozilla To Release A Browser For The Web Developers (Video)Posts a teaser.

In a pretty stale web browsers world where today’s innovations seem to be tied to the social integration, it looks like Mozilla is (almost) ready to unveil a web browser created specifically for web developers.

While the open source organization is short on details, they did reveal few things: the new web browser is said to include tools like WebIDE and Firefox Tools Adapter, and lastly, it’s coming in 7 days, on November 10th, 2014. Check the teaser below.
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Latest Opera Financial Results Show No Desktop Growth, Declining Revenue

By | October 31, 2014 | 6 Comments

Latest Opera Financial Results Show No Desktop Growth, Declining RevenueOpera’s Q3 2014 financial results are in.

If you are wondering how exactly is Opera Desktop doing after ditching the old rendering engine and having some time to “make the things right” then we have some pretty bleak news.

According to the latest report, the monthly desktop users figure has shown absolutely no growth in the last 5 quarters, in addition to that, the revenue has been declining quarter over quarter (while 3Q13 vs. 3Q14 show identical income).
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HTML5 Specs Finalized, HTML 5.1 & HTML 5.2 Already In Development

By | October 30, 2014 | 0 Comments

HTML5 Specs Finalized, HTML 5.1 & HTML 5.2 Already In Development 15 years since the last update.

A very long time ago (December 24th, 1999), the World Wide Web Consortium has published the finalized specs of HTML 4.01 (HTML 4 has been standardised in 1997). Now, 15 years later, the very same organization has finally W3C Recommendation for HTML5, which means it’s a final version.

I’m sure you’re already aware about a lot of neat HTML5 syntactic features, such as: audio, video and canvas elements, and that’s just scratching the surface.
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