Browser Reference

A selection of further readings

• Browser Notes

Browser Notes

General Information, Charts, Articles, Reviews & Rants about Browsers

Browser Archive - Evolt

[EN] Adrian Roselli

There are many places you can go on the net to see statistics about which browsers support which tags, and sometimes even how they are supported. But none of them can give the perspective of precisely how it appears to the user with that browser. Not without actually downloading it, installing it, and viewing the site in question yourself.

http://browsers.evolt.org/

Browser Emulator

[EN] Pär Lannerö

Experience the history of the web! Go to the emulator to re-live an era in the history of the web!

http://www.dejavu.org/emulator.htm

Agent String Switchboard

[EN]

Very detailed and excellent overview listing user agent and robots agent strings as well as keeping a popularity ranking of current browsers.
The user agent list covers nearly 10,000 different strings, forged strings like Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Linux) or Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.2; Windows NT 6.0) included <|8>))

http://www.pgts.com.au/pgtsj/pgtsj0208c.html

Browser ID (User-Agent) Strings

[EN]

We started this page with four strings because we had never seen a comprehensive list anywhere. Nominally RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 define them but only as an afterthought (the RFCs define HTTP 1.0 and 1.1). Browser IDs (more correctly User Agent IDs) appear, among other places, as the environmental variable HTTP_USER_AGENT in Apache). You need this information to make the fewest checks possible for the browser environment - or how to optimise the display or ... to know who and what is crawling around your site.

http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/browser_ids.htm

BrowserSpy

[EN] Henrik Gemal

BrowserSpy can tell you all kinds of detailed information about you and your browser. Stuff like the version of your browser. What kind of things it supports and what it doesn’t support. Furthermore it can provide you detailed information about JavaScript, Java, Plug-ins, Components, Bandwidth, Language, Screen, Hardware, IP, Cookies, Web Server, and much more....

http://gemal.dk/browserspy/

Avencius.nl - Browser News

[EN] Rowan Mulder

A site dedicated to inform about latest news concerning OMF - Opera, Mozilla, Firethingies

http://www.avencius.nl/

QuirksMode

[EN] Peter Paul Koch

QuirksMode.org is the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Koch, freelance web developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities. It is free of charge and ads, and largely free of copyrights.

http://www.quirksmode.org/

Browsers & Color Management Support

[EN]

This is a site for testing client-side color management support for the displaying of images in newer browsers. I’ve included some background information and some jumps to specific tests.

http://users.rcn.com/ccowens/browser_color/test.html

Viewable With Any Browser campaign

[EN] Cari D. Burstein

If you’ve come to this page, you’re probably curious about the »Viewable With Any Browser« themed button on it. Here’s my explanation. I am very unhappy with the current trend towards web sites designing only for specific browsers and ignoring others. It’s extremely annoying to me to visit a web site and to find that I’ve been rejected until I come back with Netscape or Internet Explorer. It’s also annoying to visit web sites that allow you in with any browser, but rely heavily on tags only supported in a few popular browsers, or leave out support for text browsers.

http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

[EN]

This document provides guidelines for designing user agents that lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). User agents include HTML browsers and other types of software that retrieve and render Web content. A user agent that conforms to these guidelines will promote accessibility through its own user interface and through other internal facilities, including its ability to communicate with other technologies (especially assistive technologies). Furthermore, all users, not just users with disabilities, should find conforming user agents to be more usable.

http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/uaag10.html

Browser Timelines

[EN] Brian Wilson

Releases important to HTML and CSS development

http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/browsers6.htm

Heise security - c’t-Browsercheck

[DE]

Auf den folgenden Seiten können Sie die Einstellungen Ihres Browsers testen und nähere Informationen über die verschiedenen Sicherheitsrisiken der einzelnen Funktionen finden.

http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/browsercheck/

IEBUG News

[EN] Liu Die Yu

Security and Vulnerability Discussion related to Internet Explorer, Outlook, Java Virtual Machine and Windows Media Player found at bugtraq, full-disclosure and microsoft security bulletin

http://umbrella.name/iebug.com/display-homepage.php

Does Microsoft Care About Web Standards?

[EN] Kirk Biglione

The question must seem absurd. After all, Microsoft is a member of the W3C and an active participant in the development of web standards. Each new Microsoft product announcement seems to include more standards compliant buzzwords than the last. True, Microsoft doesn’t always deliver complete standards compliance, but nobody’s perfect. At least they’re trying. Or are they?

http://www.alttags.org/archives/2004/04/29/33/

Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues

[EN] Peter Paul Koch

In the First Era of browser history Mosaic and the other early browsers ruled. The Second Era was that of Netscape dominance. Microsoft’s challenge to Netscape marked the beginning of the Third Era, the Heroic Age of the Browser Wars. Netscape’s bleeding to death marked the start of the Fourth Era of Explorer dominance. The recent news about Explorer shows that this Era has come to an end, too. We stand at the beginning of the Fifth Era of browser history. What will it bring?

http://www.evolt.org/article/Browser_Wars_II_The_Saga_Continues/25/60181/

Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla’s Firefox trumps Internet Explorer.

[EN] Paul Boutin

I usually don’t worry about PC viruses, but last week’s Scob attack snapped me awake. The clever multi-stage assault, carried out by alleged Russian spam crime lords, infiltrated corporate Web servers and then used them to infect home computers. The software that Scob (also known as Download.ject) attempted to install on its victims’ machines included a keystroke logger.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2103152/

The Door Is Ajar

[EN] Tim Bray

Today, the human experience of the Net stands at a crossroads, paths diverging into the future, and nobody knows which one we’ll be on in a year. A lot of people who will read this have the chance to make a difference in the decision. Let’s look at the options.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/17/BrowserDream

Developers gripe about IE standards inaction

[EN] Paul Festa

Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company’s Internet Explorer browser, but they can’t seem to spark a flame.

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5088642.html?tag=nefd_lede

why not internet explorer?

[EN] Sushubh Mittal

If you are one of the lost souls who visited this page curious to know why this site looks trash in your web browser, then perhaps you are using one of (or the latest in fact) version of the very famous browser called Internet Explorer.

http://www.sushubh.com/opentheweb.html

Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer

[EN] Daniel Miessler

The time has come to dump Internet Explorer. I know, I know — you may have heard the same thing before from those that think it’s cool to hate Microsoft; but I’m not one of those guys. I’m actually an MCSE and I happen to like quite a few of Microsoft’s products. Rather than lump me into the Microsoft-basher category, consider for a moment why you use the browser you use, and humor me by entertaining the notion — if even for a second — that switching to another might be worth your while. My argument is simple: the benefits of using IE are too few — and the faults too great — to put off the adoption of an alternative any longer.

http://channels.lockergnome.com/news/archives/20040615_why_you_should_dump_internet_explorer.phtml

How Microsoft Lost the API War

[EN] Joel Spolsky

Here’s a theory you hear a lot these days: »Microsoft is finished. As soon as Linux makes some inroads on the desktop and web applications replace desktop applications, the mighty empire will topple.«

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

Running several versions of Internet Explorer in Windows

[EN] Joe Maddalone

I, like so many other’s, have struggled with ways to test designs, css, etc. in multiple versions of Internet Explorer. Usually the only solutions were to have multiple OS’s installed on multiple partitions, or running some sort of emulation software such as VMWare.

http://www.insert-title.com/web_design/?page=articles/dev/multi_IE

Return of the xxxx?

[EN] Dave Massy

I’m returning to work on the Internet Explorer team. A team that I used to work on a few years ago and I’m very excited to be returning to the team where we clearly have much work to do. I’ve really enjoyed working on Longhorn as a technical evangelist and remain very very excited by the capabilities that Avalon and Longhorn will bring but the time was right for me to return to work on a product team

http://blogs.msdn.com/dmassy/archive/2004/06/16/157263.aspx

Microsoft Channel9 Forums

[EN]

Welcome to Channel 9. We are five guys at Microsoft who want a new level of communication between Microsoft and developers. We believe that we will all benefit from a little dialogue these days. This is our first attempt to move beyond the newsgroup, the blog, and the press release to talk with each other, human to human.

http://channel9.msdn.com/

IEBlog — The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog

[EN]

Our goal in this blog is to be a good place, direct from the source, for information about IE. What are we working on? How do we make decisions? Why does some part of IE work the way it does? What keeps us up late at night? What are we thinking of around security, extensibility, and other key areas? Hey, any good tips and tricks?

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie

Personal Comments on Eolas vs Microsoft, and the Viola Prior Art

[EN] Pei-Yuan Wei

I’ve been asked about the Eolas vs Microsoft case, so I’ll just post some of my comments on here for now.

http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~wei/viola/aboutEolasMicrosoft.html

Mozilla Web developer documentation

[EN]

This page provides links to documentation for web developers (people who write web pages) who are interested in the languages used to write web pages for Mozilla and other browsers that support the same standards.

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/

101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot

[EN] Neil Deakin

The following lists 101 things that one can do with the Mozilla browser component (version 1.2) that one cannot do with IE (version 6.0). I used the Windows version of IE 6.0; the list will vary slightly for the Mac version.

http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/arts/reasons.html

MozillaQuestQuest

[EN] Ian Hickson

A parody of the MozillaQuest.com magazine

http://www.mozillaquestquest.com/

Web Specifications Supported in Opera 7

[EN]

This page applies to the FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, Solaris, TRON, and Windows version 7.* of Opera.

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/

30 Days to Becoming an Opera7 Lover

[EN] Timothy Luoma

Are you looking for an alternative to Netscape and Microsoft Explorer? Do you like the idea of having an MDI user interface and being able to browse in multiple windows? Care for a full keyboard interface for your browsing? Want to start up with multiple windows? Is your browser slow? Try Opera...

http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/

Zum Opera-Liebhaber in 30 Tagen

[DE] Timothy Luoma

Sind Sie auf der Suche nach einer Alternative zu Netscape und Microsoft Explorer? Gefällt Ihnen die Idee einer MDI Benutzeroberfläche, die es Ihnen erlaubt, in mehreren Fenstern zu surfen? Möchten Sie Ihren Browser vollständig mit der Tastatur steuern können? Möchten Sie beim Start des Browsers gleich mehrere Fenster geöffnet haben? Ist Ihr Browser langsam? Probieren Sie Opera...

Deutsche Übersetzung der englischen Fassung.

http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/de/

Opera 7 Wiki

[EN]

These pages are intended to collect a range of information relating to tips, customisation, and technical details in the new version of Opera

http://nontroppo.org/wiki/Opera7

Opera Anwender FAQ

[DE] Wieland Belka

Die Informationen in diesem Dokument basieren i.W. auf fundierten Beiträgen aus der Opera-Anwender-Mailingliste, der Newsgroup und verschiedenen Opera-Foren, aber auch auf Webrecherchen.

http://www.belkaplan.de/opera/

Customizing Opera

[EN] Rijk van Geijtenbeek

Valuable information and tricks for customizing Opera

http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/

Browser Comparison - Opera, Internet Explorer and Mozilla

[EN]

Everyone who spent some time in the Internet knows the »wars« between users of different web browsers. There is so many arguments for each program. Now, amongst many to choice, there are available three the most popular browsers: Internet Explorer, which has 90% of the market, Mozilla and Opera – which are gaining growing popularity. Which of these three browsers are the best, and for who - this is users decision, but to get know each one there is much time needed. Those ones who don’t have too much time to spare, or don’t want for some reason to test every program, I’m recommending this table, which compares the most important features of the mentioned web browsers.

http://my.opera.com/community/articles/browsers/comparison/

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