Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for developers at the annual MIX08 conference in Las Vegas.
The beta version of IE8 includes better predictability when designing sites, full support for cascading style sheet (CSS) 2.1 at release to manufacturing, and integrated developer tools to quickly debug HTML, CSS and scripts […]
Firefox 3.0’s memory consumption is “dramatically improved,” claimed Mozilla Corp.’s chief engineer yesterday, because developers have aggressively attacked the open-source browser’s notorious memory “leaks.”
“We’ve been working on memory [leaks] for years,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering. “But it really started to come together in the last six months.”
Another milestone, however, […]
The company is inviting Windows users to sample its Safari Web browser and urging third-party developers to try their hand at the iPhone. A beta version of Safari for Windows is available now, CEO Steve Jobs announced during his keynote speech at the company’s 2007 Worldwide Developers Conference. Safari will also allow Web developers to […]
Mozilla Corp. has met a major milestone in its march to Firefox 3.0, developers said yesterday, by adding another chunk of the new Places feature to the alpha set for release late next week.
Places — a complete revamp of the bookmarks and history functions of the browser — was at one point slated to debut […]
At the Mix’07 conference in Las Vegas—Microsoft’s annual event for web designers and developers—the spotlight has largely been on Microsoft’s Silverlight platform, formerly known as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere. Silverlight is a set of tools for developing rich, Flash-like web applications. Less talk has focused around the web browser that will provide the primary user interface […]