Microsoft Corp. gave early testers their first glimpse of its next-generation Web browser Wednesday, and said Internet Explorer 8 will adhere to the same standards as competitors’ programs.

Microsoft’s browsers, including the current Internet Explorer 7, gained notoriety among Web developers for handling Web page code differently than Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox, Apple Inc.’s Safari, the now-defunct Netscape Navigator and others.

For the most part, major non-Microsoft browsers and outside developers who built Web pages worked with agreed-upon technical standards, while Microsoft was accused of adding proprietary code to those standards. The result: Web pages that looked good in Internet Explorer but broke on other browsers, or vice versa . Read the rest of this entry »

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Mozilla has launched Firefox Beta 3 , containing approximately 1300 individual changes from the previous beta.

The download is around 7MB and Firefox 3 Beta 3 is available in more than 30 languages for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

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AOL on Friday stopped development of the Netscape browser, saying the respected brand that launched the commercial Internet in 1994 had little chance of ever regaining market share against its archrival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

The Web portal, which took over Netscape Navigator in the $4.2 billion acquisition of Netscape Communications in 1999, said development on the browser had recently devolved into a “handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.” Firefox is the open source browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Read the rest of this entry »

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Even as Firefox 3 moves into beta, Firefox 2 is getting a security makeover.

The Mozilla Quality Assurance Community has called for volunteers to help test Release Candidate Builds of Firefox 2.0.0.10, which is expected to be released next week, following the Thanksgiving holiday.

Firefox 2.0.0.10 addresses a Java Archive handling bug that was first reported back in February. The vulnerability allows a malicious attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting attack by hiding exploit code in a Java Archive (.jar) file. This is because the .jar protocol is not restricted to .jar files and will open .zip files, which can be malicious.

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Apple’s iPhone, which goes on sale June 29, gets oohs and ahhs for a number of reasons, a big one being the way its Safari Web browser displays pages just like the desktop version, then lets you run your fingers over the screen to zoom in and out. Read the rest of this entry »

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Steve Jobs looked very happy when he announced the unveiling of the public beta of Safari 3.0 for Windows XP and Vista - and I can understand why. Today I have played around with the Safari 3.0 for Windows, and here are my first impressions. Read the rest of this entry »

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