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According to the latest news on Google’s official blog (see this page), Google plans to stop fully supporting old browsers starting on 8/1. The reason is that these older browsers don’t support the latest technologies well. For example, HTML5 and CSS3 aren’t supported, and they may run JavaScript too slowly. As a result, Google’s services (Gmail, Google Reader, and so on) run into many problems on old browsers, so Google has decided to stop supporting them. ...

Microsoft has finally delivered something respectable this time. There’s no denying that each Microsoft update brings some progress, but the progress has usually been small. When it comes to IE, the difference between IE7, IE8, and IE6 was really minor. Unlike Firefox and Chrome, which almost always deliver a shock with every update, IE9 is honestly a big step forward. At the very least, it’s fast enough now. Security has improved too. And the tabbed browsing, which IE8 was heavily criticized for, is now much more usable. Opening tabs in IE8 could even make it crash… ...

If you are a web designer, the thing you hate most when designing pages is browser compatibility. Every browser supports CSS and JavaScript differently. Your CSS might look perfectly fine in Chrome, but show different results in Firefox. This happens most often with IE, because IE has the weakest support for CSS and JavaScript. Other browsers might just look a little different, while in IE the effect may not show up at all… So this article shows you how to apply specific code or CSS only to IE, or only to non-IE browsers. ...

I’m sure you’ve noticed the new sticker at the bottom of the sidebar on this site, which mentions a program called IE8. IE8 is Microsoft’s latest browser. It was originally supposed to come out together with Windows 7, but Microsoft has always liked to release its browser before the operating system, and IE7 with Vista was the same. But that’s a digression~ In this post I want to introduce Microsoft’s IE8. From my own experience, Microsoft has finally woken up this time! The features it introduces are also worth a look. Several of them aren’t even in Firefox (maybe the next Firefox update will add them). And Microsoft, which has always ignored the rules and acted like a big shot, actually follows the W3C CSS 2.1 standard. Looks like Microsoft has learned to humble itself before its users^^ ...