Opera 10.51 RC1 for Windows
Facebook Add-ons for IE8
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In this post, I will introduce you to some of the most compelling Facebook add-ons for Internet Explorer 8.
Share with Facebook AcceleratorThe Share with Facebook Accelerator allows you to share any text, link, or page with your Facebook friends with a single click. Read more
Microdata support for Rich Snippets
HTML5 is the fifth major revision of HTML, the core language of the World Wide Web. The HTML5 specification includes a description of microdata, a new markup standard for specifying structured information within web pages.
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Working with multi-regional websites
Did you know that a majority of users surveyed feel that having information in their own language was more important than a low price? Living in a non-English-speaking country, I've seen friends and family members explicitly look for and use local and localized websites—properly localized sites definitely have an advantage with users. Google works hard to show users the best possible search results. Many times those are going to be pages that are localized, for the user's location and/or in the user's language.
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New Mac Snapshot
getpersonas.com status
We’ve seen a huge spike in traffic to getpersonas.com due to our prompted update for Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 users to upgrade to 3.6. Some users may have seen a degradation in site speed and reliability during the past 12 hours.
Read moreGetting prettier
Whilst UNIX remains in alpha status for now, we are trying our very hardest to get you something more stable ASAP. Read more
10.51 snapshot for Windows
It's difficult to summarize and highlight specific fixes, as most of them could be important to different groups of people. Read more
Tip: Always restoring tabs
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Upgrade offer to be issued to Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 users
Fast and cost-efficient browsing on Android phones
For Review: UAAG 2.0 and Implementing UAAG 2.0 Working Drafts
Lanikai Beta 1 preview release is now available for download
Working with the HTML5 Community
We’re always excited to engage with members of the W3C including the developers of other browsers as well as the broader web development community to help shape the direction of emerging Web standards, particularly HTML5. This includes participating in events like TPAC, which Read more
Announcing a WebKit Contributors Meeting
Apple will be hosting a WebKit Contributors Meeting at its campus in Cupertino, CA on Monday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 13 from 9am to 6pm PDT. The meeting is targeted at contributors to the WebKit Open Source Project. The meeting will have an “unconference”-like format, allowing plenty of time for impromptu sessions/discussions and hacking.
Read moreThe i, b, em, & strong elements
While many HTML4 elements have been brought into HTML5 essentially unchanged, several historically presentational ones have been given semantic meanings.
Let’s look at <i> and <b> and compare them to the semantic stalwarts <em> and <strong>. In summary:
Read moreOpera Mini powers web’n’walk for Cosmote Romania
a quick note on JavaScript engine components
There have been a bunch of posts about the JägerMonkey (JM) post that we made the other day, some of which get things subtly wrong about the pieces of technology that are being used as part of Mozilla’s JM work. So here’s the super-quick overview of what we’re using, what the various parts do and where they came from:
Read moreFetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment - added to Webmaster Tools Labs!
Last October, we launched Webmaster Tools Labs and it has been a huge success. Malware Details have helped thousands of users identify pages on their site that may be infected with malicious code, and Fetch as Googlebot has given users more insight into our crawler.
Today, we're happy to announce two additional Labs features:
- Fetch as Googlebot-Mobile
- Create your Sidewiki page owner entry
IE8 SmartScreen Filter - Protecting Users at Internet Scale
The RSA 2010 Security Conference is just finishing up here in San Francisco, and I’m struck by how many of the conference sessions and keynotes have warned about the threat that socially engineered malware poses to the security of the Internet. Read more