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Today’s Browsers Wars - some visualizations and statistics

Ten years ago, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were still fighting each to be the most popular web browser. Internet Explorer won the battle… easily, in fact. Support for Netscape finally ended in 2007, and since then Netscape has only been a byword. Shipping with (and being a fundamental part of) Windows has given IE a near monopoly over the web browser market. Is it the best web browser? Back when it was just IE and Netscape, I preferred IE. Now I would take any of the other browsers over IE. Ever since Firefox emerged in 2004, we’ve seen a change from what browsers were, to what they can be. We’ve seen innovations like tabbed browsing, speed dial, useful extensions, greater web standards support and faster JavaScript engines. It is also no surprise that these innovations are not coming from Internet Explorer; they are coming from all the newer browsers. Because of this, the market for these other browsers are growing.

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Category: On The Web, Technology, Thoughts, Web Development
Tags: Google Chrome, JavaScript, visualizations, web browser, web design, web development

Latest web development articles on the web - April 8th

These are articles that have to do with Web Development that I have bookmarked. You can view all of my bookmarked articles on my Google Reader page.

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Category: On The Web, Web Development
Tags: flash charts, fonts, free graphics, image editing, Magento, Photoshop, PHP, SEO, vector graphics, web design, Wordpress, Wordpress templates

My Blog Articles on HTMList.com

Last summer as an intern at Synapse Studios, I contributed several posts to the company blog. Since we are a web development company, most of my posts had to do with web development. Here are the links to each of those articles in case anyone is interested. They are listed in reverse chronological order.

• 8 Great Free Icon Packs for Web Developers
• A Simple mod_rewrite Tutorial: SEO-Friendly, Attractive URLs
• Adventures of a Summer Intern: Volumes II-VII
• HTML 5: New features, tags, attributes and what else to expect (in about a decade)
• Create Favicons for your Website with Free Utilities for Fun and Profit
• Free Software and Open Source Alternatives to Save You Money
• Using CSS Sprites to Create Easy Image Rollovers: A Tutorial
• Adventures of a Summer Intern: Volume I
• Magento: A New Open Source Shopping Cart Solution
• Meet Jeremy Lindblom: Intern

This post is also on HTMList. It wasn’t written by me, but it was written about me.

• Why you should ALWAYS Google potential employees before hiring them

Category: On The Web, Web Development
Tags: CSS, CSS Sprites, favicons, free icons, free software, HTML 5, HTMList, internship, Magento, mod_rewrite, open source, SEO, Synapse Studios, web development

PHP Tidbits: trim magic

It turns out that the trim() functions of PHP are even more useful than I originally thought. The trim functions ( trim(), ltrim() and rtrim() ) are normally used to trim whitespace from the ends of strings. However, the definition of trim from the PHP Manual states: “Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string”. I added emphasis (literally) to the part that says “(or other characters)”. That means we can trim anything from a string. I hope you can see the value of this. Well, I’ll show you a brief example anyway after the fold.

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Category: Programming Tidbits, Web Development
Tags: PHP