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Chrome beats IE Usage on Sundays

seangw — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:15:31 +0000

Google’s Chrome browser has been beating out IE usage on weekends since March 18. People are choosing Chrome for their home browser, while being forced to use IE at work during the week. Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share Due to Chrome’s automatic updates, more people are using Chrome 18 now, than any [...]

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Microsoft Apologizes for IE6

seangw — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:33:38 +0000

This has been circulating around the internet for the past few days. I wanted to post it here: From the poster: Dear Web Developers, We are so very sorry about IE6. Come, talk to us during one of the sessions, and we will show you why Internet Explorer 9 is way better. [...]

Microsoft Apologizes for IE6 is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Microsoft decides Internet Explorer will auto update

seangw — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:41:53 +0000

Lee Matthews writes, in his article, Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone: Good news, everyone! Microsoft has decided that the time has come to make sure that all users of Internet Explorer are using the most current version possible. To accomplish that goal, they’re turning on automatic updates. If only they would [...]

Microsoft decides Internet Explorer will auto update is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

jQuery 1.7 Released

seangw — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:12:43 +0000

jQuery 1.7 was released today, November 3rd, 2011. Check out the post on blog.jquery.com for details on the update. Some highlights: New Event APIs: .on and .off Better performance on delegated events (almost a 50% improvement) Better support for HTML5 in IE (blech, IE) AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition, this guy describes AMD well) support (it [...]

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The Pending Browser Hell – On IE Half Life

seangw — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:42:43 +0000

Paul Irish, wrote Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6, which details the complexities we have coming up for us as web developers. I’m glad to see someone fully thought this through. Browser half life is a significant issue for website accessibility. When was the last time someone asked you to get your site [...]

The Pending Browser Hell – On IE Half Life is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Windows 8: The Death of Flash?

seangw — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:54:42 +0000

Apple and Microsoft both have a thing against Flash. Most of my clients ask for jQuery or other non-Flash alternatives (and so far, I haven’t ever really missed Flash). Now it sounds like Windows 8 will officially not support browser plugins in IE10. A huge push for HTML5 and CSS3 by Microsoft, we may also [...]

Windows 8: The Death of Flash? is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

XMLHttpRequest: Learn why Asynchronous is Best

seangw — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:40:56 +0000

Ran across an article on MSDN (I know, right?) about the problems with synchronous XMLHttpRequests, and how it actually causes 8.4% of all hangs in IE9. Synchronous is easier to work with, as it flows just like a user would expect. Asynchronous is slightly tougher to use, as it requires handling the response out of [...]

XMLHttpRequest: Learn why Asynchronous is Best is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Roger McNamee: Speech on future of the web, and high tech

seangw — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:25:05 +0000

I’m usually not a fan of the opinions of investors, but I think Roger McNamee, of Elevation Partners, hits on quite few good points. Business Insider has some good bullets from the video, but watch the video: Some ideas I agree with/find intersting in the video include: Shift in search technology requirements The greater focus [...]

Roger McNamee: Speech on future of the web, and high tech is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Google Translate API: Shutting Down, is there an alternative?

seangw — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:52:29 +0000

Being sick for a few days, I was late in hearing the news. Google is shutting down the Google Translate API. Right now it’s just deprecated, with a full shutdown not occurring until the end of the year, but still … it’s happening. They say it’s because of abuse. Abuse? On the internet? I don’t [...]

Google Translate API: Shutting Down, is there an alternative? is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

History of IE: 15 Years of Microsoft Internet Explorer

seangw — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:49:20 +0000

History of IE: 15 Years of Microsoft Internet Explorer is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog