Tag Archives: Browser

Chrome 25 for Developers – Speech API and Shadow DOM

Posted on 14. March 2013 by Sönke Sothmann

The Chrome Team recently released Chrome 25. For developer, the new version offers support for the Web Speech API – which allows developers to add speech recognition features to their applications Support for Shadow DOM which allows to build encapsulated, … Continue reading →

Posted in Web as a Platform | Tagged Browser, chrome, Content Security Policy, Google, html5, IndexedDB, Media Queries, Shadow DOM, Web Speech API | Leave a comment

Eclipse Orion 2.0 released – browser based web IDE

Posted on 8. March 2013 by Sönke Sothmann

Version 2.0 of the browser based IDE for web development Orion has been released. It offers a prototype of Projects with filtering and SFTP integration. There is now the ability to embed the editor and shell into other applications. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Web as a Platform | Tagged Browser, CSS, Eclipse, html5, IDE, javascript, orion, Web | Leave a comment

Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 released

Posted on 26. February 2013 by Sönke Sothmann

Up until now, Internet Explorer 10 was only available for Windows 8. That changed today, as Microsoft released IE10 for Windows 7. IE10 is more secure than it’s predecessors and has a better support for web standards (HTML5, CSS3). Additionally, … Continue reading →

Posted in Web as a Platform | Tagged Browser, CSS3, html5, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a comment

Opera is switching to WebKit

Posted on 15. February 2013 by Sönke Sothmann

Opera announced that they are abandoning their own browser rendering engine Presto. They decided to switch to the Open-Source rendering engine WebKit (used by Chrome and Safari) and the JavaScript engine V8 (used by Chrome). The Opera browser will be … Continue reading →

Posted in Web as a Platform | Tagged Browser, chrome, Chromium, CSS, html, javascript, Opera, Rendering Engine, safari, V8, WebKit | 1 Comment

HTML5 is complete

Posted on 18. December 2012 by Sönke Sothmann

According to the W3C, the HTML5 spec is complete – which in fact means that the core HTML5 spec and the Canvas 2D Context spec reached the status of a Candidate Recommendation. You can expect the core HTML5 specification to … Continue reading →

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StatCounter Browser Market Share July 2012 – Google Chrome is #1

Posted on 7. August 2012 by Sönke Sothmann

According to statcounter.com, Google Chrome is the most used browser worldwide in July 2012 – with a market share of 33.81%. When looking at worldwide market shares of July 2012, these are the most used browsers: Google Chrome – 33.81% … Continue reading →