Archive for the ‘Web Browsers’ Category
Did you notice that the crazy race of updates and new releases between Chrome and Mozilla Firefox almost overshadowed any media news concerning Opera web browser. All mainstream media just ignore Opera preferring the news about Chrome and Firefox. That ain’t right, because Opera is a great web browser with impressive list of advantages. Today we would like to show you a list of Opera extensions for web developers and prove that Opera is just as good for web developers as the two bigger players. There is no doubt that Opera has many devoted fans among our readers and we assume that they will appreciate the following information concerning these web development plugins for Opera. Most of these extensions are small and narrow banded, but for example Developer Briefcase is a multifunctional extension with a set of various tools. Now let’s proceed with our today’s topic.
Readable JavaScript
This extension helps to format and colorize JavaScript code. This plugin is triggered by files with .js extension or by the toolbar button. Also it has some useful features for debugging and parsing Java scripts.
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JsonViewer
Json Viewer formats and highlights JSON data loaded from file or server. Also it helps you to process data by highlighting string and boolean values with blue, numbers – with green, null values – with red color.
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August 27, 2011 is the 10th anniversary of Internet Explorer 6. Back in those days, ten years ago this software was one of the best technological achievements ever accomplished by mankind. An important milestone has been reached that day and we should give this epic web browser a credit. But what do we have now? Ten years have passed and now we can observe how technologies can make a monster from a harmless old school web browser. I’m not trying to protect IE6 and I know how many problems it brings to web developers. It is obvious that it should have been abandoned by the world 5-6 years ago and left only in museums. But reality is cruel, because of the fact this browser hasn’t been abandoned the Internet today is not as good as it could have been.
There is a massive media campaign concerning the process of dropping support for IE6. Many respectful and influential web projects have already done that – remember a social media wave of delightful admiration about WordPress 3.2 without IE6 and other similar events? Even Microsoft is trying to fight its own child and has created a website called IE6countdown where you can track online data concerning IE6 usage all over the world. What is interesting that China has the highest percentage of IE6 usage – 30.5%. That’s absolutely unbelievable considering China’s population and the number of Internet users there. Other countries are not as “advanced” in this field, but some still do have over 4% of IE6 usage.
Being a real headache for the website developers, the cross browser testing is in fact not that much of a painful procedure nowadays because you can find a bunch of efficient and comfortable-to-use online tools to help you in that. Testing is vitally important for any website and you should never ignore it, especially if it’s a serious website you’re planning that will have a lot of traffic from different audience. Otherwise, for example if that’s a website for developers, you may be sure you won’t need your website to be very much compatible with IE6, while a news website does have to be compatible even with the oldest versions of crappiest browers.
Testing helps you to predict problems that might occur in the nearest future, if they do occur while your visitors are browsing the best case scenario is that the irritated users will assault your wishbox with angry complaints about bugs and broken codes, worst case is they’ll just quietly give it up and won’t come back to your website. So, you’ll agree that testing saves your time and even might save your website/business project from the fatal disaster. Below you’ll find some useful and advanced online tools that would ease the testing processes and will help you to be sure that your website is compatible with all popular web browsers.
1. Browsershots
This online tool provides you with screen shots of your web page from just about any browser from all of the common operating systems. You have to submit your URL and wait in the queue till you receive results. You can use paid option and skip the queue line for instant results.
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2. CrossBrowserTesting
Another awesome online tool that helps you to test your website. Just pick an OS, select browser and start testing. Free trial is available, also you can purchase a monthly subscription for this service.
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Surprise, surprise! Yes, Google the mighty wizard keeps amazing the honorable web audience with some magic tricks. Along with the long-awaited forthcoming release Chrome OS, recent 8th update of Chromuim and Google eBooks Store launch we are glad to meet the new family member – Chrome Web Apps Store where you can find tons of useful web applications and extensions. Even though this project is in a startup mode we can’t underestimate its huge importance and potential.
There’s a lot of apps there so as usual we’ve gathered some useful things to assist you. All those apps can be found at the Chrome Web Store and we’re not afraid to show them now! Before starting we should tell you more about all these applications that are featured in our post. Frankly speaking from now on you can use excellent tools right in you browser window. Moreover, some of these apps can also work offline, others allow group collaboration etc. Here you’ll see apps for designers, web developers and even productivity-related software. We’ve installed and tried all of these and must tell you that it was really great, we’ve enjoyed the new experience! Alright, enough of talking now, let’s start off!
1. HTML5 Photo Editor by Aviary
New and simple HTML5 Photo Editor from Aviary is a real time saver for users because it is revolutionarily fast, effective and insanely simple. Excellent interface and a set of brilliant tools will help you make your photos look professionally edited just with the help of a few clicks.
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2. Sketchpad
Enjoy best drawing tools together with MugTug Sketchpad – an awesome web app that has paintbrush, texture stamp, spiral brush, and of course you’ll be amazed with the wide range of various settings including: flow, opacity, diameter jitter, color and gradient swatches.
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It is not a secret that Firefox has gained a fame of the most SEO-friendly web browser due a huge number of excellent extensions that you can easily find and install in a few minutes. Without a doubt Firefox still holds strong positions in this field and it is hard to beat it but we are sure that with the instant Chrome releases and updates the dearest Google’s offspring has all chances to compete with the leader.
In this post we’ve featured some of the most popular SEO extensions for Google Chrome according the official statistics of downloads. Many of these extensions are just Chrome-optimized replicas of the well-known Firefox plugins but we believe that this is not plagiarism and this is the situation when everybody wins. So if you found yourself stuck with Firefox because of some of its useful and essential plugins – now you can easily use the favorite functionality extensions with Chrome as well! As always we would be glad to hear your thoughts and suggestions about the topic in our comments section.
1. Google Global
Google global would be useful for those companies and SEO-masters that are interested in monitoring how Google search results appear in different countries, regions and cities. Thanks to customized settings you can easily set your own locations and start work.
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2. Mozbar
Mozbar is rebuilt for Chrome Firefox SEO extension from the recognized authority SEOmoz. Powerful tools are now in a few clicks away on your favourite web browser.
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