Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification, warns that browser manufacturers could yet render it a work of fiction should they offer insufficient support for the new spec.
The reality is that the browser vendors have the ultimate veto on everything in the spec, since if they don’t implement it, the spec is nothing but [...]

If Safari were a missionary it sounds like we would be converts to the church of the Apple browser…
The beta of Apple’s Safari 4 was released a couple of days ago, and because I have an almost psychotic compulsion to install free software, I downloaded it and gave it a spin. The press release boasted [...]

A number of browser manufactures apparently look to the Opera browser when seeking inspiration for their products writes Dustin Wilson.
Throughout the years Opera’s competition has released versions of their browsers with “new” features which are typically touted as innovations they did themselves, especially by Apple. Mozilla to its defense rarely (if ever to my [...]

When can I use…: which of the contemporary browsers will support emerging web technologies such as HTML 5, CSS 3, and even SVG?
A handy resource for web professionals.

Dear IE 6, it pains me so to write…
Dear IE 6, It’s been a good run, now please leave.

The Guardian’s list of the top 100 websites and applications for the new year.
“The web really is becoming the operating system.”
The biggest changes since 2006 have been in the fields of collaborative online services that let people in different locations work simultaneously on projects. Collaboration in 2006 was very much focused on words, but [...]

Man I am so old skool. disassociated.com remains “optimised” for a 800 by 600 (or 80 by 60 if you want to be kewl about it) screen resolution despite the fact just eight per cent of web users (desktop and laptop) now use the setting.
I often see my site on studio display monitors and [...]

It’s about five years since I started using Firefox, so in a way this is news that’s been a long time coming. Of course Firefox hasn’t had the advantage of being the default browser that has shipped with every PC that has been sold in the last ten years or so.
Two out of the four [...]

Does the secret of Microsoft’s domination of the web browser market lie in its use of Internet Explorer’s user agent string?
And so Microsoft made their own web browser, which they called Internet Explorer, hoping for it to be a “Netscape Killer”. And Internet Explorer supported frames, and yet was not Mozilla, and so was not [...]

While it’s early days yet, a quick look at browser usage stats shows Google’s Chrome browser appears to have dented Firefox market share rather than that of Internet Explorer.
Industry feeling is Chrome was intended to compete with the Microsoft browser, rather than Firefox or Opera, et al.
You live by the early adopters, you die by [...]