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Mozilla blasts Acid3 as Safari and Opera grab the brass ring

Ask Mozilla co-founder Mike Shaver what he thinks about Ian Hixie's Acid3 test and he'll give you an ear full. On his blog today Shaver defended the Mozilla Firefox team as they watched both Opera and Safari/WebKit apparently achieve a 100% pass rate Wednesday. Ian’s Acid 3, unlike its...

Tags: Acid2, Acid3, Apple Safari, Business Operations, Channel Management, Ed Burnette, Internet, Marketing, Mozilla Corp., Opera Software ASA, Quality, Standards, Test, Web, Web Browser, Web Browsers

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Acid2, Acid3, and the power of default

Acid2, Acid3, and the power of defaultThere's no conspiracyI have to say that it's a little bizarre to suggest that, after all of the effort the IE team has put in to get IE8 to pass the Acid2 test, that they'd go to great lengths not to use it. The...

Tags: Web browsers, Team management, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Safari 3, Acid2, IE team, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Acid3

Discussion threads 2008-01-23

Curtain rises on Opera 9

Curtain rises on Opera 9No problems here at all...Works good. Works fast. The interface definitely takes getting used to though.And, oddly, no one has written a Weather applet for it.Hm?I've been using the beta and upgrading through the beta process without any problems. I wonder what could...

Tags: Acid2, Apple Macintosh, Opera 9, Opera Software ASA, Web browser

Discussion threads 2006-06-20

Why IE 7.0 needs CSS

Why IE 7.0 needs CSSFace i t John,your employer is playing catch up, that's all there is too it.M$ won't get too many more chancesto get things right. IE 7.0 SHOULD have tried to pass the Acid2 test - lack of CSS support has been tarnishing IE's image for YEARS....

Tags: Web browsers, rationalization, Microsoft Internet Explorer, CSS, Microsoft Corp., Acid2, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, defacto

Discussion threads 2005-08-01

Additional Resources

Microsoft decides not to push Windows 7E on Europe, after all

Microsoft decides not to push Windows 7E on Europe, after allI have doubts"Is there anyone who still doubts that Microsoft?s 7E plan was a stroke of diabolical genius, and designed to force the Commission?s hand ? and had nothing to do with Microsoft wanting to do the ?right? thing?" ...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Web browser, Web Standard, Web Standards, Windows 7E

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Microsoft: European XP and Vista users to get the ballot screen, too

Microsoft: European XP and Vista users to get the ballot screen, tooWhy is MS doing this??Why are they backing down? MS did exactly what Opera asked for and wanted:"Opera requests the Commission to implement two remedies to Microsoft?s abusive actions. First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to...

Tags: computer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Opera Software ASA, operating system, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yes

Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yesGetting excited about a browser or an OS???? Why?Those should be just mature very reliable tools. The excitment should be in the things they allow you to do without getting in your way. I bet that at one time you were...

Tags: Web browsers, open source, Ubuntu, Mozilla Firefox, open-source developer, punk, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-03-02

Which sites will make the IE8 Compatibility Hall of Shame?

Which sites will make the IE8 Compatibility Hall of Shame?Couldnt they havereported the IE8 user agent as separate from the past IE browsers? Since it IS standards compliant, the page should display the way it would for the rest of the browsers: standards compliant.I'm trying to think of any negative...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

Discussion threads 2008-12-21

Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover

Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, IE8, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Firefox 3

After months of testing, Firefox 3 code name Gran Paradiso is available for download from Mozilla. With its new Gekko 1.9 engine, the browser rocks, rendering pages faster and uses fewer system resources overall. As with any new browser, some add-ons created for Firefox 2 may not work, but give...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0

Product reviews 2008-06-17

Mozilla blasts Acid3 as Safari and Opera grab the brass ring

Mozilla blasts Acid3 as Safari and Opera grab the brass ringHixie and Web Standards...I could care less about Hixie's Acid2/3, even if I'm not a web developer... As long as it works, it works! If the web standards ain't broke, don't fix or improve it...Ed, ever the cynic....Did you consider...

Tags: Acid3, Apple Safari, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Opera Software ASA, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Apple pushes Safari to unsupported operating systems

Apple pushes Safari to unsupported operating systemsLive and learnAs much as Apple does cool things, remember, its a for profit company. The bottom line for ALL for profit companies is simple. make more and more money by all means necessary.Personally, I think that Apple software stinks, from iTunes to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Operating systems, Digital music, Digital media, operating system, Apple Inc., Apple Safari, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Standards and pragmatism in web browsers

Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...

Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Will IE 8 break the Web?

Will IE 8 break the Web?It's an opportunity for the money puppetswho write IE only sites to re-screw their customers and charge hundreds to add appropriate headers to their sites.RE: Will IE 8 break the Web?I think they originally didn't want to "break the web" because it would make IE...

Tags: Web browsers, Channel management, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web, IE 8, IE8, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-12

Acid3 browser test released, nobody passes

The Web Standards Project has released the latest in their series of browser compatibility tests: Acid3. Even though Acid3 is based on 4 year old standards, no currently shipping browser passes as of this writing. Update: Want to try the test yourself? First, save and close any...

Tags: Web Browser, Web Standards Project, Web Browsers, Internet, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - Tour

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 - TourMore of the sameLooks a lot like IE 7, but that would be expected. I really like the way it highlighted the active domain URL.From my past experience in DEPLOYING browser upgrades, any word on a new IEAK? The omission for IE...

Tags: Web browsers, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1, Internet Explorer 8 Beta, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8 Beta, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

IE 8 to feature WebSlices, Activities

IE 8 to feature WebSlices, ActivitiesRE: IE 8 to feature WebSlices, ActivitiesMary Jo, once again you have shown you are one of the quickest journalists to cover MS tech news!looking forward to IE8 Beta1!I've got a funny feelingthat it's going to make writing "MS javascript TM" and "MS CSS TM"...

Tags: Web browsers, WebSlices, IE 8, Activities, Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE8 Beta1

Discussion threads 2008-03-05

Firefox 3 beta 5 code freeze slated for March 18

Firefox 3 beta 5 code freeze slated for March 18Damn Right Another Beta is Needed!I have crashes all the time. Several times they've gotten so frequest I've had to go to FF2 or IE to get work done.The current code is not anywhere close to being ready for prime...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3 Beta, Firefox 3 beta 5, Firefox 3

Discussion threads 2008-03-04

Microsoft caves: 'Super-standards' mode to become IE 8 default

After much outcry from developers and users, Microsoft is bowing to pressure and making its new, Acid-2-compliant standards mode the default in Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft officials are attributing the change in plans to the company wanting to live up to the interoperability pledges that Microsoft made...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Mode, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Mozilla confirms Firefox proof of concept information leak vulnerability

Mozilla confirms Firefox proof of concept information leak vulnerabilityThe more I use firefox, the less impressed...I am. After install a third party firewall I discovered that it reports to Google search disabled and fishing detection disabled with every web site I visit.And now, the fact that someone can read what...

Tags: Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, NoScript, Opera Software ASA, proof of concept

Discussion threads 2008-01-23