"For the web to move forward and for consumers to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free," said Dean Hachamovtich, who leads Microsoft's Internet Explorer team. "The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web." I think Steve Jobs said something similar last year.…
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On-line advertising agencies and web site managers are using sophisticated means to track our on-line habits. Given that a handful of companies control the on-line advertising space, it can be incredibly challenging to protect your privacy while surfing the web. Most of the modern browsers have features that give consumers some level of control over tracking cookies. Normally this involves restricting the use of browser tracking cookies. Users can set the browser to prevent the setting of cookies or delete…
On one of my online groups someone started a discussion about Google Books. I chimed in because I had concerns about Google's normal lack of consumer friendliness and the cloud storage thing. Why bother with the ugly Google Books store when you can use [Amazon] Kindle which has more device support, a larger catalog and actual customer service? One of the groups members responded. Being able to read a book in a browser isn't elegant. But technically I could read it…
With respect to Flash, the issues have to do with the uses for tracking, so-called Flash cookies for example, and the fact that today, when you use the cookie controls in your browser, they don't directly affect the treatment of Flash local storage objects or cookies.There's some other issues with Flash that I could suppose we could address at another time. Princeton University Professor Ed Felten via A deeper dive into Do-Not-Track - O'Reilly Radar…
For me the word Chrome evokes images of the shiny, the futuristic and the fast. Clean, efficient and well built. Google Chrome developer preview doesn't disappoint. Google has taken WebKit, the same Open Source browsing engine that Safari is built on, and in a very short time developed a browser for Mac and Windows that is winning converts everywhere. On my work PC (Windows XP) Google Chrome has displaced Firefox as my "get things done quickly" browser. To Safari users,…
