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11 May 2009Since its GA release on March 19 and its addition to Windows Update in late April, Internet Explorer 8 has been gradually increasing its market share in the US. Based on the current growth pattern in StatCounter’s GlobalStats data, it appears that Internet Explorer 8 will overtake Internet Explorer 6 sometime in late May or [...]
Tomorrow morning, at 09:00 PDT, Microsoft unleashes IE 8.0 on an unsuspecting Internet.
By 12:00 PDT, the number of Web sites having to put up IE 7.0 only stickers will be in the millions.
I haven’t done a lot of testing of the new monster (I mainly use Firefox on Mac OS 10.5.6), but it doesn’t seem [...]
In: Blogging| The Web| Web Performance| Work
3 Sep 2008Since I downloaded and started using Chrome yesterday, I have had to rediscover the world of online advertising. Using Firefox and Adblock Plus for nearly three years has shielded from their existence for the most part.
Stephen Noble, in a post on the Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals, seems to discover that Chrome will be [...]
In: Web Performance
18 Apr 2008So, Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 8 later this year, and a Beta is available now.
The question is, are you ready for it?
Internally, the tech savvy folks (myself included) have been tossing around the football of how to tackle it. The leap from 2 to 6 connections per host, on top of the basic rendering [...]
Stephen Pierzchala is one of a cadre of crazy Canucks living in the United States. A 10-year veteran of the Web performance field, Stephen also writes on topics as diverse as branding and reputation, bipolar, and Web technologies.