Internet Explorer 9 faster than Safari 5?
They say that, sometimes, development teams are likely.
At the launch of Safari 5 (yesterday), Apple did not lose to emphasize that his browser was much faster than its main competitors, namely Chrome and Firefox.
No word, however, Internet Explorer, superbly ignored.
Microsoft responded today with a small video that there is no comparison with four path: Internet Explorer 9 is fast, very fast, very fast. So much faster than Safari 5 bear bad (or no) comparison.
While it is still a bit early to make a real opinion (EI 9 is still in its second preview release), it is clear, however, that Microsoft's browser will make up part of the hardware acceleration (using the GPU and not the CPU) for video and other multimedia content (including Flash).
Note that Safari 5 does not offer this type of technology (hence the test results from Microsoft).
In contrast to the JavaScript (subject not addressed in the video), Safari 5 should continue to hold its own in the game
Anyway, the message is clear. The next time Apple decides to denigrate its competitors, thank you for not forgetting Microsoft.
The video is on this page (requires Silverlight).
Safari 5 announced
Apple at WWDC, announced the release of Safari 5 30% faster than Safari 4, 3% faster than Google Chrome, Safari 5 allows you to choose among search engines Google, Yahoo and Bing.
The integrated tools for developers have been improved, support HTML5 further improved. But the big news is that with Safari 5, Apple also announced the possibility for developers to create extensions to Safari.
In addition to the iPhone developer program $ 99 per year and the Mac developer program, $ 99 per year, Apple has added the Safari developer program, $ 0 / year
Source (fr) : développez.com
Safari 5 website
Microsoft will release this afternoon urgent patch for Internet Explorer, which corrects several security vulnerabilities
Microsoft announced yesterday the online release this afternoon of an urgent update for versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer.
The proposed patch out of cycle patch Tuesday (a set of patches released on the second Tuesday of each month), is to correct flaws that affect all versions of Internet Explorer including IE8, and on all operating systems including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft did not give details of these vulnerabilities are classified as critical and said that this patch will concern in particular a flaw in versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer, but it also includes fixes for 9 other faults that also affect the version 8 browser.
Google Chrome 5.0 in beta for all platforms
Since Friday, Chrome, the browser that Google keeps gaining market share, is available in beta for version 5.
If it does not change much for users of Windows, however it will be greeted with more enthusiasm by using Linux and Mac owners.
Chrome 5.0.342.7 proposes in effect for the first time these two platforms for machine translation and features for further surfing confidentially. The icing on the cake (for some), the Geolocation API is also on the menu.
Note that Chrome 5.0.36 (rather 5.0.360.2) also arrived, but in alpha. Main novelty, the bookmarks are now managed directly from a tab.
Google Chrome 5.0.342.7 beta for Mac OS X and Linux.
Google Chrome 5.0.342.8 beta for Windows.
Opera Mini 5 on iPhone : the movie
After being announced just before the Mobile World Congress 2010, the application of mobile web browser Opera Mini for iPhone has been officially proposed on the Apple App Store this week.
A submission form small provocation may well plunge in Apple's dilemma a little complicated if the application is accepted and validated, she returned to competition with its own browser, which may highlight its limitations (if one According to the video, Opera Mini is three to four times faster for viewing pages that Safari Mobile). If Apple refuses, he goes for the bad service from a community of enthusiasts and mobile Internet, which is perhaps not appropriate in this day and age.
While waiting to know the outcome of this unbearable suspense here is the product: an official video, made by Opera, Opera Mini on iPhone 5. If it works as well as true, the alternative may be very sympathetic.
Source : Presse-citron.net
Safari 4.0.5 – Update available
Apple offers this evening update for its Safari Web browser for Mac (Snow Leopard, Leopard and Tiger) and Windows.
It makes some changes:
- Performance Enhancement for Top Sites
- Improved stability for the additional modules of third party
- Improved stability for websites with online forms and Scalable Vector Graphics
- A response to the issue in which Safari changing the settings on certain Linksys routers
- A response to the issue that prevented some users of iWork. Com post comments on the documents.
Microsoft’s “bundle screen”
Pursuant to requests from the European Commission, Microsoft will offer a "bundle screen" for users of Windows XP/Vista/7 located on our continent, not to be anti-competitive "and let them choose between their browser and those of other software vendors.
The "bundle screen" enter into force on 1 March, in a week.
What will the impact on market share of Internet Explorer? The public will be he faithful?
To be continue...
Firefox 3.6 delivered !
Mozilla, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Web, today released Firefox® 3.6, an update to its popular, free and open source Web browser. The latest version of Firefox introduces cutting-edge features, support for a wide variety of Web standards, and access to more than 6,000 free add-ons that allow users to customize their browser to their liking.
What’s new in Firefox 3.6:
Below are some of the coolest features of Firefox 3.6:
- Personas: Personalize the look of your Firefox by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart
- Plugin Updater: To keep you safe from potential security vulnerabilities, Firefox will now detect out of date plugins
- Stability improvements: Firefox 3.6 significantly decreased crashes caused by third party software – all without sacrificing our extensibility in any way
- Form Complete: When filling out an online form, Firefox suggests information for fields based on your common answers in similar field
- Performance: Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness, and startup time
- Open Video and Audio: With the world’s best implementation of HTML 5 audio and video support, now video can be displayed full screen and supports poster frames
Source : Firefox's blog
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Opera 10 Release Candidate available
The norwegian browser is back !
Although his breakthrough on the market of mobile surfing is more honorable, Opera barely beat out Internet Explorer and Firefox rival free (just 2% market share).
But Opera dont miss qualities, and its respect for the W3C RFC is very appreciated by the developers.
SVG : Google fill IE hole
The SVG or "Scalable Vector Graphics" is a data format created to describe a group of graphic vector.
The project was abandonned by Adobe sometimes ago, but Google took the fire back and published a javascript library for IE.