The universal future
Ever since Google’s universal search was launched on May 16 2007 search results have become a lot more interesting. With many choices of media type from just one results page it’s fair to say the world of search (Google) is hotting up.
So after the first 18th months what do we think? And more importantly what does the universal future hold for searchers, agencies and companies?
Posted by Henry, 23 December 2008 , 4:26 pm
Microsoft: ‘We feel a strong obligation to customers with IE8′
Internet Explorer 8, which is already available in Beta and is expected to be officially released next year, is the next iteration of Microsoft's market-leading web browser. Oliver Hurley catches up with Internet Explorer senior product manager James Pratt to quiz him on web standards compliancy, why IE7 took so long and, erm, the significance of X-UA-Compatible header tags…
What are the main things you want to achieve with Internet Explorer 8?
Our goals are to create a faster, easier web browsing experience for the things users do every day on the web. We provide features that allow users to reach beyond the page and bring the variety of online services to life and deliver the most secure and reliable version of Internet Explorer to date. more…
Posted by Oliver, 11 December 2008 , 3:18 pm
Browser wars
Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3. No, that's not the result of a non-league football match with no goalies but the names of the browsers fighting for control of the way we view the internet. And, as Oliver Hurley discovers, Microsoft isn't having things all its own way
When Firefox 3 was launched on 17 June, the free web browser generated 8,002,530 unique downloads in a day. It’s a hugely impressive figure that constituted a new Guinness world record, albeit in a category that didn’t previously exist.
For the Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Firefox, successfully encouraging so many users to download the new browser on day one was a canny way to grab headlines. But the release of Firefox 3 also more…
