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Chris Pederick releases new version of Web Developer , convenient add-on for FireFox and other browsers, which along with FireBug makes life better for Web developers.
Stumble this release for its good news compared to version much do. The toolbar icons have been redesigned, now much more effective. It increased the number of functions available on the menu as a handy magnify in real time, rules and guidelines, ability to edit the HTML. To be installed as soon as possible ...

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Here is the answer to the dramatic incompatibilities with different browsers currently available. Browsershots.org is a service - free and open source for now - which provides a simple way to check if a site is displayed in the same way on different platforms and different browsers.

Thanks to a small server-farm home, the authors of this useful service provide the video output of the screens generated by your web, so you can verify the correctness of the interpretation HTML / CSS on different machines and browser: PLD Linux 2.0 ( Ac), Windows 2003 (Server), Windows NT 5.1 (XP), Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and others.

The site is very well kept, with lots of documentation wiki, source, roadmap and timeline. . You can also view the latest screenshots, queue status-of-process and the status of the factories. The only sore, but surmountable, is the time required for the generation of screen-shot, a bit 'slow! However, it is a big help to the web developer to verify the correctness of their work, without having to install any browser and / or virtual machines to coexist - for example - Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Virtually all browsers are supported by FireFox to Safari. Interesting is the possibility of verifcare IE6 and IE7, along with versions 5.01 and 5.5.
Well done!

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While Microsoft, via his blog on IE7, gleefully announces the "fabulous" figure of 100 million installations of IE7 in early January 2007, rumors of a possible version of Safari (the well-known although now obsolete browser - natively - Mac) for Windows.
Microsoft meanwhile is happy to see that IE7 is the second most used browser after IE6.
All this happens when there are still several locations in IE7, so it is understandable the absolute confidence of Microsoft in its new browser, in "sight" even the release of Vista (excuse the play on words)!
It is therefore really necessary to "bring" Safari on Windows?
Mary Jo Foley, in his blog, has tried to ask all the users . Vote too.
For now the results are:

Clearly, if these "rumors" are true, iPhone, Apple's latest wonder, might be involved somehow.
Certainly the new Apple iPhone is preferable to use FireFox or Opera, Apple always make this possible. On a normal Mac, according to end-user, Safari for some time it knocks, making innavigabili some sites.
However, we can see in these speculations as the presentation of the new Apple iPhone has shaken something.

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It is time to take a decision. The year 2007 has now started and is then unnecessary indulgiare further. Microsoft Vista is coming, and 2008 will be his year. Windows XP is about to give way to the last born at Gates, last - among others - of its kind.
So it is obvious - if someone had not noticed it - a certain urgency in updating the major tool of the century (if not the millennium), or the browser.

Recently released as an automatic update - but optional for reasons of monopoly and antitrust - Microsoft Intrenet Explorer 7 for owners of Windows becomes an obvious choice. The update is strongly recommended especially for reasons of accessibility on the Web and sucurezza The discovery of flaws in the code is not new, but recent versions are known to be less vulnerable to attack because hackers have not had time to discover the holes from which insinuate hacks and worms.

So here's 5 good reasons, in my opinion, to go immediately to the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7):

1. It is the next generation of browsers, so better just get familiar with its new features
2. Improved stability and security
3. Better care about updates and add-in support
4. Improved navigability on the Web, where the technology used in IE7 is close to that already present in most other popular browsers like FireFox, Opera, etc. ... so - finally - be able to properly view some Web sites, now navigable only with FireFox

Why be left behind?

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Conitnua to astonish the total difference in yield between different browsers on the market. IE7 is the PNG (8-bit or 24) so ​​different from FireFox. Even Opera is not free from some strange event about it. In particular, the PNG used as wallpaper are made differently than IE7, Opera and Firefox. This is what performs best of all and in this regard it is time to appoint browser's "century"! Congratulations to the development team.

IE7 creates a nice effect of shear on a PNG image used as background in repeat-x. If you try to create an image of 200 × 200 pixels with a gradient from black (0 × 000000) to gray (0xEEEEEE) vertically and placed in the body in the CSS as a background orizzonale repeat (repeat-x), setting the background body color 0xEEEEEE - ie the end of the gradient, you will notice that only FireFox makes it perfect detachment, IE7 and Opera show a nice cutting effect (but slightly different!): in practice we see the end of our image 200 × 200 and the start of the background to color plate.

One way to solve this problem is to save our image to GIF ...

But the NPCs were not supported by IE7?

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And 'the hour - for Web developers - to take drastic measures against the obstinate craze of the incompatibility between browsers. We propose, therefore, a sympathetic boycott of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 that, after years of development, blogs, white papers and referendum, continues to exhibit pronounced symptoms of chronic incompatibility. Sorry in the end constantly criticizing the work of "colleagues" in Redmond, but the defects found in the latest release of Internet Explorer are so macroscopic that can not be perceived as mere oversights.
The most worrying thing is the presence of bugs already present in the sensational version 6 of IE! You can not, therefore, accept such behavior from those who have a monopoly of the undisputed most popular Internet browser. Unfortunately, in fact, Internet Explorer 6 is still the most used browser, FireFox although in recent years has walked proudly on his way to a deserved success all over.
Just then, with Patch HTML, CSS and JavaScript (or JScript?)!

Browser all the same?

Some argue that a perfect compatibility between browsers will never be reached. In fact, what is the real difference between Internet Explorer and FireFox? To date, the functions of feed, zoom, cards, etc ... are present on almost all browsers on the market, from Safari to Opera. So which one to choose? Maybe you should not choose! It 's just that what is lacking. Today, however, we are all forced to choose, either as a Web Developer that as the end-user. Experience, in fact, teaches us that the site is navigable with Safari, but the other only works with FireFox. In practice, on your machine, you should have at least 3/4 browsers to make sure you browse the Internet with confidence nell'immmensità!
Support which it seems absurd!
And the beauty is that this is already done!
If you add a site to your favorites you must remember to export it in four other browser, otherwise if you are ever to sail tomorrow with a different browser just can not find the link that you were - rightly - is stored. If you store a certificate of your bank? The lists of feed? In short, this is a game in the massacre, not computer!
We should first of all settle once and for all the question of visual browsers (CSS / HTML / XML, ...) and compatible scripting (JavaScript / JScript). Without this, then, impress the world with a browser capable of possessing its own characteristics and not a copy of those of another!

Each of us is free - or should be free - to install on your PC, the browser you deem appropriate. The issue is that this freedom is denied by the incompatibility of the browser and the Web Developer work becomes laborious, expensive (in terms of time and money) and not very efficient, with continuous risks of hidden bugs and other flaws!

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In Redmond must have some big problem on the uptake! It is wonderfully absurd that at the end of 2006 there are still the basis for a - well - approximate compatibility between IE7 and Firefox! Despite the official release - albeit with a limited set of locations - 7 of Internet Explorer, the page rendering engine still suffers from obvious flaws programming! Without going into many details averted list only two high profile bugs still present in this official release!

First of all NPCs are made ​​differently from GIF ... and, worse still, in absolute position undergo strange contours depending on how it runs on IE! Obvious bug? O madness of some junior developer?

On the CSS pseudo class: hover is still not supported on all TAG, although many take for the blog running! But which system? See W3C ...
A simple p: last-child is virtually ignored! Microsoft has rightly supported p: first-child. Now, if it implements the first thing that costs you implement even last? Mystery ...

The apex of the absurd, then, is obtained with bulleted lists! Hear hear! IE7 behaves exactly like IE6! From the series: you have brought with flawed code? Too many copy and paste of course! If definitie a list with the canons and a custom image as UL LI list-point, do not try to use a float element LI, the picture disappears mysteriously, just as they did on IE6! The one, needless to say, to make things right is the usual - old - FireFox!

Blog IE7 there are numerous complaints. Although it appreciated the efforts of the Microsoft behemoth to start a blog during the development of a software like IE7, however, remains the question of the effectiveness of this move. They really listened to the requests of users-developers? The blog has been opened with IE7 too late?

Once again we have to wait for a service-pack next adventure ...

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Version 7 of Microsoft's browser was (finalemente) released in English (it was released almost simultaneously with the release of FireFox 2). In short - through the Windows Automatic Update service - will be installed on millions of machines, such as system patches. Someone has already criticized this move by Microsoft umpteenth shouting misconduct. Web developers, however, more interested in knowing what will Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and how will comportarso in developing Web sites

The release through Windows Update is scheduled for early November! It follows that within a week will be nice that IE6 buried. Web developers will have to upgrade your PC of course, found herself without a version 6 of which make the canonical test of compatibility.

It is clear that those who - like us - is absolutely manic updates and must have the latest release of software, is between a rock and a hard place. Also - obviously - IE6 is dead! And about time too! A candidate browser to be sure - if there ever is one - in the near future (next day) is definitely IE7, since the latter will undergo patches (service packs) security.

From developers understand that IE6 is abandoned! Additionally, Microsoft has explicitly advised to move urgently to version 7, if there was any need to repeat it. Web developers must adopt a machine with IE6 for testing? By not update it? It would have suffered attacks from all sides and avoid going on the net?

The obvious solution - and beneficial to Microsoft - is that developers and end users to pass immediately to IE7, whether they like it or not!

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A few days ago I installed - on a special machine - the beta of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. The installation lasted an eternity, inflating the PC robbaccia as usual. The first problems came to the first required reboot, as usual, missing icons, strange flickering, etc. ...

At Microsoft we have been working for years now and still do not support CSS as Christ commands! You just can not understand how they can develop bad. They will have a team of 50 people at least have all the money of the land but, nevertheless, persist in creating garbage software.

Congratulations to the team instead of FireFox, and in beta for version 2 already looks a JavaScript 1.7!

What can I say ... it would be better that Microsoft stopped producing its own browser, since it can not quite keep pace with the times. Delays and continuous structural deficiencies make IE basically useless. The worms then appear to be at home in Redmond, then you are strongly advised to stay away. The development team: please, supported the PNG format with transparency are 24bit ... centuries FireFox implemented it! Come on ...
Hopefully Firefox 2.0 arrives as soon as possible!

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