CSS Art

Aja Romano shares an example of hand coded art Diana A. Smith created using HTML and CSS. He notes that this was crafted using code recognized by the Google Chrome web browser, and provides screen captures of how distorted it becomes under other browsers which do not recognize the CSS code that makes the image. For more examples of Smith's art, see her website or view this interview.

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Browser Market Share

Gregg Keizer projects that Microsoft's share of the browser market may fall below 10% by the year 2020.

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Firefox v. 57

Stephen Shankland reports on the upgrade to Mozilla's FireFox web browser, slated for October release.

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Internet Explorer Use Declines

Gregg Keizer observes that the combinded market share of the Internet Explorer and Edge browsers is in decline, leaving the Microsoft browsers with a 46.9% market share. He notes that Google Chrome, which has a 35.1% market share, may eclipse IE/Edge before year-end. FireFox (11.4%) and Safari (4.6%) now have low market shares.

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Apple MacIntosh Users Have the Option of "Browser Fairy"

Jason B. Jones is an evangelist for the Safari app "Browser Fairy ." This allows the user to program which browser is used to open which sites.

I have been frustrated recently that no one browser works with all websites. At my workplace I am stuck with an old machine with two gigabytes of RAM, where having to have three browsers open with active content causes the computer to crawl into virtual memory operation. At least I know about browser incompatibility: I have seen many a computer novice who does not have alternate browsers loaded, and they never see some browser-specific content.

I had to agree with Mike Richichi's comment:
This would be really good as an enterprise licensed version, with a feature that let us push out a configuration file which automatically lets us determine what browser to open an app in. With a proliferation of different administrative apps, all using different plugins, with Chrome deprecating Java, etc., it would be nice just to tell people to use Safari and it would take care of which browser to load based on what it's doing.

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Browser Extensions

George Williams asks readers to provide the name of their favorite browser extension . Responses include:

• Adblock Plus by eyeo.com
• Diigo
• Grammarly for Chrome
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