Oh the irony. Apple today took the wraps off of a new HTML 5 & Web Standards page, showing off to devs and end users alike what HTML 5 and other bleeding edge web standards are capable of. Only problem — this “openness” is limited (artificially) to only Apple’s Safari browser.
Now I know for a fact the latest betas of Chrome and Firefox can do at least half the stuff in the demos. But I digress. For Safari users, head on over to the HTML 5 Demo Page and have fun.
For the rest of us…you can skip Apple’s artificial limitations by pointing your seemingly incompetent browsers here — (developer.apple.com/safaridemos/).
Whiz banged or is Flash still relevant?
- September 25, 2009 5:50 am
Whenever someone takes your work that you spent many months developing and nurturing like a small baby child and then goes and rips the guts out and calls it home is rather disturbing and maddening. Such are the feelings Microsoft is feeling after the Google Chrome IE plugin we recently talked about. The plugin essesentiall allows Google Chrome to run inside of a frame within IE. All in all it makes using IE much less painful and actually worthwhile. Microsoft however sees it differently and as usual, tries to spin it in such a way that makes the Chrome plugin appear as if it’s on the brink of sending your entire hard drive’s worth of content out onto the interwebs. From the horse:
Given the security issues with plugins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plugin has doubled the attach area for malware and malicious scripts. This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take
They wouldn’t recommend it huh? I wouldn’t recommend using IE at all. But such things in life can’t be avoided with various corporations still refusing to budge from their IE backgrounds. In all reality, the way the Chrome/IE tango goes, most if not all of IE’s security settings are left untampered with meaning you’re fine. The only difference is the dramatically faster browsing and web pages actually displaying as the web developer intended. *Gasp*. Give it a try IE users. It’s the best thing you could do.
Mashable
- September 22, 2009 9:23 pm
So your corporate IT policy requires you to use the ever popular though web standard deficient and downright pokey IE? Well, now’s your chance to give them the sly finger and have the last laugh. Google has released a rather clever little plugin for IE that will allow you to run Google Chrome 3 inside a frame within IE. The IE Google Chrome Plugin allows IE to make use of a whole host of open source technologies with one of the more popular goodies being HTML 5. Of course, IE isn’t really doing any work as it is again a full fledged version of Chrome running inside a frame.
On the developer end, adding a simple X-UA tag will allow the IE Trident rendering engine and the Google Chrome webkit engine to the tango peacefully with IE bowing out when said tag is read in giving rendering control to the far superior webkit beast within. While all of the high tech stuff that goes on behind the scenes is hardly high tech, the efficiency and peace of mind it brings to web developers and end users a like is enough reason to install the plugin. On one side you’ll get dramatically improved javascript performance, an actual web standards compliant browser, and an overall speed boost. On the other side, your IT department will be all the merrier knowing you’re still rockin’ their browser of choice.
Gizmodo > Ars Technica
Google Chrome is my new favorite browser. I like the style of it, the speed, and the way it renders web pages. For me, it’s all good. However, the one thing that bugs me about Chrome is that Google only offers an online downloader meaning if you’re in an area void of any internet connection, you’re out of luck. However, there is a super simple way to get the entire download in one file so you can install it on internet-less machines ’till your hearts content. Want to know how? Come on in…
- February 19, 2009 3:03 pm
So you are an IE loyalist who through fire and hell would stand by your trusty browser ’til the end. Besides, it’ the corporate standard. When was the last time you went into a big corporation, sat down and one of their computers and fired up Opera, Safari, FireFox? Chances are it would be never. One would assume that having a majority 67.55% would mean that your browser help up to the standards of the web. If you thought that, you would be wrong. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has long eschewed the web standards instead focusing on whatever it is they focus on. So it comes with some certain comedy that the list of incompatable websites on the latest RC1 build of IE 8 contains some pretty big name sites. What sites exactly? The list is right in side.
