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I always find some "ill" when tackling the subject "compatibility between browsers." Also, and I have yet to understand the real reason, of all the browsers I know the most "annoying" him remains: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6! Unfortunately, the release of IE 6 is still in circulation and there are frequent reports of problems when viewing pages.

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Honestly I have tried everything! I did not want to use an external application to read RSS feeds! I thought (and I have changed his mind) that having a browser open already was uncomfortable bind to a different application.

So I started with the RSS reader in Internet Explorer 7. But since I installed Windows Vista I view the feed is denied ... security issues. If you "unlock" IE7, in due time, I let us start to appear "alert" spread (a little 'Windows and a little' good from Norton 360) who invite me to restore the security settings of your browser properly, be worth "broken" from around the world. In short, with IE7 - at least on Windows Vista - this is not possible to read RSS feeds in peace.

Abandonment IE7 (was now) and promote good FireFox as your default browser (it was really now). Then install Sage , an extension for FireFox . Maybe too easy ...! Let's just say "limited". However, today, I downloaded FeedReader , version 3.12, one of the best known, at least taking a look around the Web Cool! A new world indeed. Stumble this player also, again for Windows, FreeDeamon , I did very well ... even though in some ways I prefer FeedReader .

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In principle, when you insert an image in an HTML document should be used to its original size. However, the TAG IMG allows you to force the width (width) and height (height) of any image, regardless of the original size. This scaling is done - of course - from the browser.
Use the original size of an image is good, although in some cases involves a double work for the Web Designer and / or dynamic engines (such as CMS or libraries of graphics manipulation) on the Web Server. A classic slide show, for example, usually shows previews or thumbnails (small images) show that if you select the original image larger.

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One consideration, obvious but overlooked during the development of applications in Adobe Flash, the difference between the player used for testing within the IDE Flash and the object (ActiveX or EMBED) used by your browser. Who owns the version "Macromedia" Flash MX (version 8 to be precise, but this discussion really applies to any version of Flash ...) when developing a movie and try it within the IDE runs the Flash Player linked to development package. Then when you publish your movie on the net and you "test" with the Flash Player browser you may experience some - substantial - differences!

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A Sunnyvale, California, brings together Yahoo to Silicon Valley WebBuilder Mike Shaver of Mozilla, Chris Wilson, Microsoft's IE team, and Hoon Lie of Opera, to discuss the current state of eternal war between browsers.

Be emphasized are the words of Mike Shaver of Mozilla:

Do not look to the W3C for the Future

And the criticism of Apple's non-attendance:

They refused to send someone Saying That "we are busy writing software."

That, among other things, is 10 miles from where the meeting took place!

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It happened to turn the TV Net TV, as had happened to become a Radio Net Radio, not to mention the music! Now, as mentioned in other posts, it's official for the Software to transform short-term Net Software!

Adobe , which we know has recently acquired Macromedia, formalizes the Web Application - Web 2.0 - in real RIA (Rich Internet Applications) with the announcement of wanting to take on the popular Web editing software Photoshop. It is the latest ' agreement between Adobe   and Photobucket   to make available online a technology for editing and video remix. Thanks to new technology developed for Flash 9 with ActionScript 3.0 , Adobe aims high, anticipating that within six months will be available online version of Photoshop based precisely on Flash technology.

Indeed, the new possibilities of ActionScript 3.0 (involving projects such as Flex and Apollo - see also Web2.0: Adobe is trying to Apollo and Ajax Rich Internet Application ) makes it the perfect candidate for the implementation of true on the Web Ajax RIA , on the other hand, we see ousted from his throne in this new scenario. Despite the countless Ajax Framework, some excellent, produced during the last few years, Flash provides an environment most advanced and easy to manipulate. Also we talk about one of the world's most popular plugins: Flash has it behind a few years older than Ajax and derivatives.

Furthermore, it is obvious that the Adobe Flash chooses, he being the producer now. However there are technical issues that may be considered - to date - only to be resolved in a harmonious application of technologies such as Flash. Taking a look at the new ActionScript 3.0 we immediately realize the tremendous possibilities of development offered by this new platform. The ECMA standard language and new items made ​​available by the framework allow you to reach a level of detail possible with previous versions of Flash: one of all, for example, the ability to access data from an uploaded image Bitmap hard!

The attack by Adobe seems to take place on two fronts so distinct that they have in common the Flash technology (which remember has always been the ability to actively interact with the browser and then with Javascript Client side and server-side scripting).

The first attack takes place outside, on the browser side, where the technology Apollo is really proposed as an alternative to the usual kernel of the different platforms, available today (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc. ...); use Adobe Apollo , then, instead browser for best performance and applications (RIAs real) unthinkable, thus bypassing the incompatibility between Internet Explorer, FireFox and companionship. In addition, Apollo provides a single development platform, JavaScript-like Ajax, but without compatibility issues. This last point is a significant setback to technologies like Ajax, which still suffer greatly with issues of browser compatibility, do not forget, moreover, made the whole issue (rendering) graphical CSS!

The other attack is from inside, hitting Ajax Framework with Flash card. The winning element in this strategy lies in the use of Flash, the Flash technology, which is applicable both in Flex , both in Apollo , both as a standalone version already are accustomed to seeing (simple SWF file for instance)! There is no doubt that this scenario is extremely attractive to developers, and Web. What becomes immediately realizable Flash reusable in various ways, without forcing me to change a single line of code and, moreover, without worrying about compatibility!

This, in my opinion, is an important step forward, a change of considerable proportions, which also involves the world of games and Marketing. We'll talk again soon, make no mistake!

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Here is the response to the dramatic incompatibilities with different browsers currently available. Browsershots.org is a service - free and open source for now - that provides an easy 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 to provide video output of the screens generated by your web, so you can verify the correctness of the interpretation HTML / CSS on different machines and browsers: PLD Linux 2.0 ( Ac), Windows 2003 (Server), Windows NT 5.1 (XP), Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and others.

The site is really well looked after, with a lot of wiki documentation, sources, roadmap and timeline. . You can also view the latest screenshots, the state-of-queue process and the status of the factories. The only sour note, but surmountable, is the time required for the generation of screen-shot, a little '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 live - 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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It is time to take a decision. The year 2007 is well underway and it is useless to indulge 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 does not realize it was still - some 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 find the holes from which imply hacks and worms.

Here are 5 good reasons then, I think, to go immediately to the Internet Explorer 7 (IE7):

1. It is the next generation of browsers, so better to 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. These NPCs IE7 (for 8-bit or 24) in a manner different from Firefox. Even Opera is not free from some strange event in this regard. In particular, the PNG used as background are made differently from IE7, Opera and FireFox. This is all well behaved and in this regard it is time to appoint browser's "century"! Congratulations to the development team.

IE7 creates a nice cutting effect of a PNG image used as background 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 - or the end of the gradient, you will notice that only the detachment makes it perfectly FireFox, IE7 and Opera show a nice cutting effect (but slightly different !!!): in practice we see the end of our image 200 × 200 and the beginning of the flat color background.

One way to solve the 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 always criticize 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 high-profile bugs already present in IE version 6! You can not, therefore, to accept such behavior by 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 proudly path on his way to success all deserved.
Just then, with Patch HTML, CSS and JavaScript (or JScript?)!

All the same browser?

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 feeds, Zoom, tabs, 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 'just that what is lacking. Today, we are all forced to choose, either as a Web Developer that as an end-user. The 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 surf the Internet with confidence nell'immmensità!
That seems really absurd!
And the best part is that this is already done!
If you add a site to your favorites you have to remember to export it in the other four browsers, or if you are ever to sail tomorrow with a different browser than you do not find the link that you were - rightly - is stored. If a certificate store of your bank? The lists of feeds? 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 the compatibility scripting (JavaScript / JScript). Without this, then, amaze the world with a browser capable of having its own characteristics and not a copy of those of another!

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

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