Firefox 3 on the way

The developers of Firefox 3 have confirmed the list of changes in the third version of the most popular Web Browser.

From the compulsory list we can state the following "must do" things:

* Enchanted work of the manager for add-ons as well as simplified installation and more comfortable interface for tweaking

* An option for a more tight integration with web services like click on mailto:
This can be tweaked to find Gmail or to be redirected to open a file from Google Documents

* WYSIWYG template of the pages ready for printing

* Support for Microsoft CardSpace and OpenID

* New system for informing developers for crash of the browser


Other functions that might be build in Firefox 3:

* Anonymous surfing of the web - when no info is left in the cache of the browser and no info is left in the history

* An option for storing the pages in PDF format

* Group look of the contents of tabs on one page - like foXpose extension

* Function for installing and activating of add-ons without restart of the browser



for more info you might search in here

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I personally wish that they make a functional X11 session support

Lets hope that we enjoy this great release in the 2007 with the biggest market share ever ;)

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IE7 Web Developers Nightmare

Internet Explorer 7 has kicked in at last on all MS Windows OS running PCs because of the fact M$ decided to force it's users to migrate through update. Well actually there isn't much wrong with this but IE7 was supposed to comply more with the standards what in fact isn't true.
IE7 is a night mare for most of the developers that try to comply with standards for crossbrowsing.
I recently needed to rewrite a web site so it works on firefox too... and the surprising element was that when testing the new and the old site on IE7 I found out that many things does not function as expected and "not function as expected" isn't the right word for it, it was more a question of working at all.

I found that submiting through JavaScript has some pretty uncool things which I don't actually blame IE but some functions did not work when not passing all the parameters and so on.
And the MOST killer thing was the DISability of IE to submit data through "input type img" which actually was the whole sites data... I don't actually blame the programmers that they did it so but IE for not keeping with standards again.

So actually with IE7 we come to a new era of "web developers nightmare" as it will require BAD and maybe not so BAD web sites to be rewritten and this with crush some of the small companies business.

And a final TIP from me! Try avoiding writing JavaScript without testing it 100% on all of the major used web browsers like FireFox, IE7, Opera and Safari.

Just to have a clue:
According to W3C the web browser market share of IE7 for the previous month is: 7.1%
and for IE6 is: 49.9%

So with a bit of analyzing the situation and the facts as well as doing some math we can say that IE7 will show a market share of about 60% according to W3C... which isn't the best picture for us the devs.



Have fun with you code and don't hate it :) hate the things that don't comply to the standards...

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