WIth the death of XP naturally brings the death of IE6. As shown on the Windows XP Home Page, XP Service Pack 2 support ends today. Even more relevant, the sale of Windows XP ends October 22, 2010.
I know. I didn’t know they were still selling that thing either.
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My name is Mike and I use Internet Explorer.
The IE9 Preview is looking strong, and Microsoft is bowing to the pressure of standards compliance. The IE9 Acid3 Test, which checks for CSS3 capabilities, is currently a very impressive score of 83; not very far behind Firefox’s 94. The release notes are a dream come true to anyone who’s done web development over the last ten years. Or is it too good to be true? If they didn’t include canvas in the next release it still might be years before we really have a full feature set of browser tools to work with, and canvas being arguably the most versatile, would be the most egregious omission. But the IE Team recently laid our fears to rest and updated their IE9 feature list to include canvas. Should we get excited? Or is this our abusive ex-boyfriend giving us a puppy? Before I’m able to seriously consider Internet Explorer as a viable platform, I may need professional help in order to get over the last decade…
According to Google trends, HTML5 is one of the hottest technology topics today and in the very near future, it will be the language of choice for web applications, displacing Flash. The most publicized reason for the push to build web apps in HTML5 is that Flash is not allowed on the iPhone and the iPad, but the reasons go deeper and more technical than that.
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Great article from StatCounter says that IE6 has dropped below 5%, giving me a reason to get rid of this 8 year old laptop I have on my desk to test websites in the ancient browser. Of course you are still in trouble if you're target audience is Africa… but if so, I think you knew that anyway.
This is my first cross-post, done with the blog at my employer, BetterVideo. The original post can be found here.
BetterVideo is looking closely into the new Google WebM video codec and weighing its potential on whether it will be the web codec of the future. While it's still too early to make a determination, there are many facts available, and the WebM project is proceeding at a brisk pace.
One of the two videos from the June 1st meeting is posted. In this one, I go pretty deep into how to optimize your website. There’s a lot of energy in this one, and I’m surprised how much information I was able to cover; it should be enjoyable. The video is posted here, and to go along with the video is another one of my colorful presentations.
One of the two videos from the May 4th meeting is posted. My presentation on The History of HTML5 is available here. Also see the presentation.
A reminder that Club AJAX is using the awesome BetterVideo™ player and hosting. The player has been updated with new controls (fullscreen) and social tools, so you can post the video via email, Twitter, Facebook, or grab the code and post it on your page.
Now available is my presentation from Tuesday’s meeting, The History of HTML5. The idea of this was actually born out of research into the battle over Flash between Apple and Adobe. It turns out that if you look at the overall timeline of HTML and what the browsers have gone through in regard to competition and standards bodies, you’d have a better understanding as to why Apple is acting as they are.
The presentation is available here. It’s one of my more colorful ones. Enjoy!
The credit for this pic goes entirely to SmashingMagazine, but I couldn’t resist having this picture posted on the blog, especially a few days after the Big Bang Theory post. Credit also to @notmessenger for showing it to Club AJAX.
Club AJAX proudly uses HTML4.1 Transitional! (We had the HTML5
logo on here, but didn't think that logo was as cool).
