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Pretty much everyone who has ever used Safari well knows that this platform is the top dog when it comes to eating up memory. Say what you will, but it really must be the most leaking browser platform there is. In this regard Safari 5 is no different from Safari 4 and all the fancy features that were added don’t make up for the memory failures. Read the rest of this entry »

At the times it seems European Commission’s anti-monopoly policies are there for Microsoft exclusively. Even so, Microsoft has complied and done a lot to meet the regulation for European market. This time though, it seems Microsoft is not willing to lose out and is about to outsmart EC. Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhat an interesting discussion took off on Twitter between me (@tekkie) and Jason Young of award-winning Virion (@virion_ca) about the IE6 Update technique. While the goal of such a technique looks decent, it’s mainly of benefit to developers. Read the rest of this entry »

On April 10th Microsoft Program Management announced Internet Explorer 8 distribution in Automatic Update of Windows. The update will be optional on the opt-in basis with the options to Ask Me Later, Install and Don’t Install. Read the rest of this entry »

Even though Safari makes a perfect platform for web development due to the strict standard policies practiced by WebKit core developers, you still can’t do without developer tools on it. While Mozilla Firefox has a superb Firebug extension, WebKit has Web Inspector. Read the rest of this entry »

Years ago, for Internet Explorer 5, Microsoft took a shortcut to ‘extended CSS support’ that they called the Dynamic Properties. Despite the fancy name it had nothing to do with W3C Cascading Style Sheet standards nor was it available cross-platform. Now, as the software giant has realized the impact of open standards, they are giving up on these non-standard developments. Read the rest of this entry »

On Friday WebKit team announced their open source browser engine entirely passes Acid3 test by Web Standards Project.

Acid3 is a test page that checks how well a web browser follows certain web standards, especially relating to the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript.
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Beta 3 of Firefox 3 is now out. Quite a few new features and a new look.
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WebKit has introduced another development towards greater support of W3C initiatives – Selectors API, currently in the status of Working Draft. Read the rest of this entry »

Good news for the developers – IE8 will pass Acid2, a test case, written to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards.
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