While with Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft is for the first time placing strong emphasis on modern web standards support, there are players on the browser market that have always made this a priority. Case in point: Opera. A new Beta development snapshot of Opera 11 is now available for download, and early adopters wi... |
6 December 2010
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Google has announced that it has started indexing SVG files. Scalable Vector Graphics is an open standard format for vector images, both static and dynamic. It has been associated with HTML5 and is sometimes preferred for animations, but support for it hasn't been great so far.Now the Google crawler will look in... |
1 September 2010
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The first stage of the Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) development process will come to an end next month, with Microsoft gearing up to release the first Beta build by the end of September 2010, eight weeks after the launch of Platform Preview 4. IE9 has already brought to the table a range of new features, albeit, end us... |
7 August 2010
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MIX10, Microsoft’s web-centric conference, is now less than two weeks away, and, with Dean Hachamovitch, the IE general manager, keynoting the event, expectations involving Internet Explorer 9 could not be higher. One year after it launched Internet Explorer 8 to the public, Microsoft is set to showcase the pro... |
4 March 2010
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At the start of January 2010 Microsoft announced that it was jumping on the W3C SVG bandwagon. The company, once accused of trying to kill Scalable Vector Graphics, is now a member of the SVG Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). And just a few months ahead of joining the SVG Working Group, Microsoft... |
23 February 2010
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There was a time, especially around the introduction of Silverlight, when critics pointed an accusatory finger at Microsoft, and accused the company that is was laboring to kill the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) specification from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It took the software giant a couple of years, but... |
2 February 2010
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While it is hard at work building the next iteration of Internet Explorer, Microsoft has jumped on the W3C SVG bandwagon. Essentially, the Redmond company wants to be intimately involved in the evolution of XML graphics for the web. This is precisely why the software giant submitted a request to be accepted as one of... |
6 January 2010
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For a medium as fast moving as the Internet, web standards change very slowly, taking years for new ideas to get traction. Moreover, many new concepts fail to achieve any sort of implementation after the initial hype. One standard that could bring significantly improved graphics in some cases but was close to being a... |
3 October 2009
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Nokia and Ikivo, a well-known supplier of rich media application enabling solutions based on open standards, just announced the joint creation of a complete tool chain that simplifies and allows efficient collaboration between graphic designers and software engineers in the development of Java applications for mobile... |
12 May 2008
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