Confirmed users
945
edits
Firefox/Planning/2014-06-11: Difference between revisions
→News of the Week
| Line 129: | Line 129: | ||
Adobe's marketing group released [http://www.cmo.com/articles/2014/6/2/adi_2014_browser_war.html their take on browser trend numbers] last week. Like a number of other orgs, they've stopped differentiating between desktop, mobile, and tablets, and just [https://blog.shareaholic.com/browser-share-report-05-2014/ report on total share]. They give the nod to Chrome over IE in the US, and we've seen similar reports elsewhere.<br /> | Adobe's marketing group released [http://www.cmo.com/articles/2014/6/2/adi_2014_browser_war.html their take on browser trend numbers] last week. Like a number of other orgs, they've stopped differentiating between desktop, mobile, and tablets, and just [https://blog.shareaholic.com/browser-share-report-05-2014/ report on total share]. They give the nod to Chrome over IE in the US, and we've seen similar reports elsewhere.<br /> | ||
'''Why we should care:''' The new "browser war" reporting is cross-platform, with mobile contributing more and more to web browsing/access in general. There's a need to be aware in the gradual shift of market share reporting, and how more orgs are looking at browsers across platforms, rather than by hardware/operating platform. | '''Why we should care:''' The new "browser war" reporting is cross-platform, with mobile contributing more and more to web browsing/access in general and being added to market share reporting. There's a need to be aware in the gradual shift of market share reporting, and how more orgs are looking at browsers across platforms, rather than by hardware/operating platform. | ||
A little-known company [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/xcode-6-swift-cloudkit-and-more-surprising-developer-news-from-wwdc-2014/ talked a bit about it's plans around operating systems and cross-platform integration] at it's World Wide Developer conference. Lots of interesting bits around iOS 8 and Yosemite, including things like [https://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/continuity/ Continuity] and mirroring voice and messaging between iOS and OS X, iOS [http://bgr.com/2014/06/09/best-ios-8-features-extensions/ app extensions], and expanded [http://www.wired.com/2014/06/smartphone-notifications/ notifications]. <br /> | A little-known company [http://www.techrepublic.com/article/xcode-6-swift-cloudkit-and-more-surprising-developer-news-from-wwdc-2014/ talked a bit about it's plans around operating systems and cross-platform integration] at it's World Wide Developer conference. Lots of interesting bits around iOS 8 and Yosemite, including things like [https://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/continuity/ Continuity] and mirroring voice and messaging between iOS and OS X, iOS [http://bgr.com/2014/06/09/best-ios-8-features-extensions/ app extensions], and expanded [http://www.wired.com/2014/06/smartphone-notifications/ notifications]. <br /> | ||