CompetitiveBrowserDevelopment: Difference between revisions

** security

** standards compliance: layout, more compliant w/ CSS 2.1 layout standards, increased compliance w/ Object Model, allow more flexible programming patterns; more client-side APIs for Ajax (like local storage and mashup security model)

** make the IE 8.0 object model more interoperable with that used by other browsers

** allow developers to more easily add extensions to its browser

** invest heavily in advancing its Web development toolbar with the next version of IE

** require Web site authors to "opt-in" to standards mode when developing IE 8.0 sites: authors then have to take responsibility for breaking pages

** security

** compatibility vs. standards-compliance: don't want to break existing sites without solid reasons

|Web Browser|Safari|

|Version|3.0|

|Release Date|October 2007|

** anti phishing: automatically detecting "phishy" or deceitful website URLs. It then notifies the user via a dialog box, webpage overlay, or a combination of the two.

** significant user interface changes to iCal, 3D audio cues in VoiceOver, live previews in print panels, basic document editing in Preview.app, and the ability to restore groups and subgroups in AddressBook with Time Machine.

** support for  PDF, HTML, Web Archives, Text, QuickTime movies and sound in "Quick Look" view

** (unofficial): access Google's AntiTrust database through a plug-in or under-the-hood extension: offers Safari users another level of security by automatically detecting "phishy" websites or malicious URLs.

** (unofficial): allow its iPhoto digital photo cataloging application to interact with Google's Maps service.  

** Web Clip

** Manipulatable browser tabs: ability to reorder tabs through drag-and-drop; ability to drag individual tabs off an existing browser window, thus creating a fresh browser window with the contents of that tab; ability to drag tabbed windows from one Safari window to another, or ask the browser to consolidate all open windows into one, making tabs for each existing page in a single Safari browser window.

** In-page lightbox searching: in-page searching that allows users search "live" for specific search terms on any web page; find all instances of the search term right off the bat; implements the "lightbox" technique it invented for Dashboard, dimming the web page background and shinning a spotlight on the text matches.

** Resizable text areas: Web designers developing pages for Safari will no longer have to fiddle with TEXTAREA form elements in order to satisfy user requirements, while at the same time maintaining some semblence of good page design; enables a "resize" corner that allows users to resize text fields on a web page in real time, to suit their text-editing needs.

** easy view of all your plug-ins

** ability for private browsing - information about an individual's browsing history isn't stored

** SnapBack: one-click access to an initial search query

** Safari is optimized for Macs; it will take time for Safari for Windows to stabilize and catch up to the other Windows browsers

** Window’s-based malware and security issues

** Mobile developers were disappointed about not having the ability to design native apps (no Software Development Kit, but devs can create Web 2.0 apps that run w/in iPhone’s version of Safari using tools like Ajax); opening up 3rd-party development threatens security and reliability of phone

** More resources needed to support more platforms

* Web Browser: Opera

* Version: 10

* Release Date: first builds to be released in 2007

** cross-platform experience, tools providing open std dev platform

** increase user base, spread word about Opera

** collaboration with some Linux distributions on including Opera

** facilitating easier browsing on cell phones, such as entering long URLs

* Emphasis: css selectors

** cross platform experience - allow user to begin reading a web page on the desktop, then continue on a mobile phone or PDA

** open std dev platform -  

** support more CSS3 selectors; how HTML tags behave depending on hierarchy

** text-shadow property

** bug fixes to standards support

** screen reader support

** new rendering improvements

** works on non-traditional platforms - Nintendo DS and Wii

** not as popular as Firefox

** not open source; some Linux distributions won’t include Opera for this reason

** increasing awarenesss about the browser