Tag Archives: Browser

Google+: the complete guide

Google+: It’s the hot social network on the block. In just three weeks, Google’s competitor to Facebook and Twitter has amassed more than 10 million users, and its users are sharing more than 1 billion pieces of content daily. It’s become a hotbed for early adopters, tech luminaries, marketers and businesses around the world. Google+ isn’t the easiest thing to understand, though. It has a lot of features that can confuse beginners. Even advanced users can miss a lot of the little gems and nuances that define Google+. That’s why we decided to dig into every aspect of Google+, from Hangouts to Circles, from Google+ for businesses to what’s next for Google’s social network. The result is an extensive guide on all of Google+’s key features, as well … Continue reading →

Google+ to introduce social game platform

Google, whose recently launched social network Google+ has amassed 20 million users in three weeks, is planning to launch a platform for social games that would compete with the offerings on Facebook. The search company has approached a number of developers to put their games on Google+, according to people knowledgable with Google’s plans and who did not want to be identified because of confidentiality agreements. The plans, reported on Friday by AllThingsD, could come as early as August, they said. A Google spokesperson declined to confirm, saying only that the company plans “to add a lot of features and functionality to Google+ over time.” Read more For Los Angeles Times: Business, 22 July 2011.

Mozilla designed a system that makes passwords obsolete

In between updating Firefox every few weeks, the Mozilla team managed to find time to put together BrowserID, a system that might make passwords a thing of the past. It’s a straightforward premise — log in to the BrowserID service, and you’re automatically granted access to all your password-protected websites. We think this could be big, especially with a major player like Mozilla behind it. The only roadblock is adoption — how long until Netflix, Amazon, and others adopt the protocol? Read more By Dylan Love for Business Insider, 19 July 2011.

WordPress.com drops support for IE6

As the Internet Explorer 6 Deathwatch continues, another web service — WordPress.com — has announced that it is ending support of the nearly decade-old web browser. Citing “increasingly complex code trickery to make the WordPress dashboard work,” the company announced an end to IE6 support. The dashboard will still load for IE6 users, it just won’t function very well. IE6 users will be alerted that their browser is outdated and given direct links to browser updates or to download an alternative browser via theBrowse Happy website. Read more By Christina Warren for Mashable, 20 May 2011.  

How HTML5 is influencing web app development

Over the last 12 months, the momentum behind HTML5 has continued to build, with application developers, browser makers and hardware vendors fully embracing and supporting the web of the future. Consumers have started to embrace HTML5 as well, especially as more users understand the benefits and potential that HTML5 can mean for the future. With Firefox 4, Google Chrome, IE 9, Safari 5 and Opera all offering better, more robust support for HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, we’re already seeing glimpses of what is possible and what the web of the future may look like. Read more By Christina Warren for Mashable, 15 April 2011.  

Screen capture by google

Capture an entire web page as an image not just the visible part. It’s easy to use this extension to capture visible content of a tab, region of a web page, or the whole page as a PNG image. Read more By Google chrome extensions.

wysiwyg editors in web content management

I am slowly making up a set of blog posts about the components of content management systems, starting with the earlier one on content repositories. Coming up next will probably be templating systems. In the beginning the web was editable in the browser. Tim Berners Lee made it so. But this did not last for long. Eventually Microsoft restored this, to some extent, with the contentEditable properties and related Javascript interfaces. Now these have a lot of foibles, and the current HTML5 standardization has not done a huge amount of work here yet, certainly not adding new features or changing the basic interface substantially, so a lot of behaviour is currently underdefined, which makes cross browser compatibility more difficult. While the main desktop browsers all implement the interface, … Continue reading →

Head JS Script Loader

With Head JS your scripts load like images – completely separated from the page rendering process. The page is ready sooner. Always. This is guaranteed even with a single combined JavaScript file. See it yourself: Read More

Google gives us the inside track for 2011

The Google Manchester event last month was a great day all in all: super speakers, interesting insights and excellent food.  Here are some interesting stats and an overview of the day. The day started with coffee, pastries and networking before we took our seats in the main room for the first presentation from Mark Howe, Country Sales Director. Mark Howe shared some very interesting statistics that showed just how much search is changing and how quickly it is evolving. These were as follows:- The UK is now the largest per capita ecommerce market in the world. The UK’s Internet economy is worth over £100bn. Read More By Bev Freeman for Epiphany Solutions blog, 08 Dec 2010.