Aside from the minor matter that Internet Explorer is installed, by default, on 90 per cent (or some such figure) of PCs worldwide, much of the reporting I saw on Download Day, and the release of Firefox 3, saw IE relegated to the sidelines. It's faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer, but it’s not the fastest browser in the world - depending on who you ask, ... Read full entry

A study of the four best known current browsers finds Safari and Firefox (especially pending release version three) to be the best when tested against a variety of benchmarks. Web 2.0 applications and sites place the focus firmly on browser performance. Anyone who still believes that the speed of your DSL connection is the only potential bottleneck is gravely mistaken. Key parts of Ajax applications run locally, which ... Read full entry

After complaints, Apple tweaks Software Update for Safari As a Windows Safari user I actually found the lack of an auto-update feature, which Firefox offers, a nuisance. Initially Apple were "forcing" users of products such as iTunes to download and install the Safari browser by way of its updating software, an idea that drew a lot of criticism, especially from the makers of Firefox. Apple have since allowed ... Read full entry

Opera and Safari Pass Acid3 Test Good. I use both browsers. I recommend Windows (and even Mac :) users give Safari a whirl, as I especially love the way disassociated.com renders a treat therein :) Of course it's a great browser besides that.

Mozilla boss John Lilly says Apple's inclusion of the Safari browser in iTune's update software is comparable to methods used to distribute malware, and undermines the trust between software producers and their customers. There's an implicit trust relationship between software makers and customers in this regard: as a software maker we promise to do our very best to keep users safe and will provide the quickest updates possible, with ... Read full entry

Apple's Windows Invasion Here's a clever way to increase the market share of a browser, namely Safari... include it in the update software bundle of some other, very popular software, namely iTunes. Earlier today, Apple released the Safari 3.1 Web browser for Mac OS and Windows XP/Vista. A couple hours later, Apple Software Update popped up on my daughter's Sony VAIO, offering Safari 3.1 for download. ... Read full entry

Apple's Safari gets richer with HTML5 features Eager beaver web developers may be able to start to tinkering around with HTML 5 upon the release of the Safari 3.1 beta browser, which is said to include support for some of the new specification's features. As far as I know Safari is the first major browser to release the new features and as a result ... Read full entry

Hide an image in html This is way cool. Select the text with your mouse. You'll need either Firefox or Safari to see this work.

End of Support for Netscape web browsers. Truly the end of an era, or at least the official end of an era. Netscape was known to many as the thought leader in web browsing, and had developed a number of complementary pieces of software that allowed for a rich suite of internet tools. I still vaguely recall using, for a very brief time, Netscape 0.9. This would possibly have been in ... Read full entry