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IE 5 on the way out?

Dan Cederholm asks if we should consider dropping CSS support for IE 5 browsers? Good question with useful comments. [...]

How to build a better web browser

Great and thorough article on the how to build a better web browser. [...]

Lynx Viewer

Good article from Andy Clarke at And all that Malarkey about creating accessible websites without needing to have deep pockets. Someone left an in [...]

New AOL browser

Could it be any uglier? (via Simon Willison) [...]

Why I love Opera

Nice post on why Opera 7 shouldn't be forgotten about amidst the furore caused by the Firefox 1.0 release. And here's the Web Developer Tool for O [...]

Attention Windows Internet Explorer users

If you want to convince any Win/IE users to swap over to Firefox get them to read this: In-Depth Review: What Makes Firefox 1.0 So Compelling. (via [...]

Firefox on the up?

Over five million downloads for Firefox 1.0 and by the looks of things53% of the Windows Firefox 1.0 dowloads were being performed by IE users [...]

Firefox badges

Pin one of these on your site: Firefox badges. [...]

Global Browser Stats

Interesting look at browser statistics from the W3 Schools site: IE is still losing it's share while Firefox (Mozilla) increases. Additionally there [...]

Screen reader

Nifty free screen reader. [...]

Beautiful Browser

Nice! [...]

Browser wars again?

10% of internet users on Firefox by the end of next year is a very conservative estimate... article at News.com. [...]

Speed up browser evolution

Mike Davidson talks sense:Let's speed the adoption rate of W3C standards and let's also speed the rate at which we apply them on our own sitesfrom h [...]

Stop IE

Rid the web of Internet Explorer: stopIE. [...]

Why Mozilla is better than Firefox

Joe Clark spits his thoughts on why Mozilla is better than Firefox. [...]

FlottAltsaa

Just having a look at the website of FlottAltsaa, the company who are proudly responsible for designing the Opera 7+ interfaces. Pity their websit [...]

Javascript console in sidebar

If you use Firefox you will know about the wonderful Javascript console that comes packaged with it... it opens in a wee window ready to help you de [...]

Google Browser

Looks interesting to say the least... a Google browser based on Mozilla. More at Kottke. [...]

Firefox 1.0 preview release

Firstly Firefox 1.0 has succeeded in providing more than one million downloads in the first four days of release: why not help spread the word about [...]

Firefox keyboard shortcuts

Here's an excellent array of keyboard shortcuts for Firefox, courtesy of Derek Featerstone at Box of Chocolates. [...]

Internet Explorer: the new Netscape 4?

Petrik de Heus poses an interesting question... is Internet Explorer the new Netscape 4? He links to silicon.com who provide figures suggesting that [...]

Why I don't recommend Firefox

In teresting article written from an alternative viewpoint to the usual Firefox loving praise. [...]

Opera looking good

I'm becoming increasingly impressed with Opera these days, it really is a GREAT web browser. Click Shift+F1 1 to see how your website would display [...]

Firefoxie

Found this link at Molly.com. If this doesn't persuade the mental bunch who persevere with IE to make the permanent switch to Firefox I'm not sure [...]

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