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On Tuesday evening, Google will release a beta of its Chrome browser. Rupert Goodwins looks forward to the latest campaign in the browser war
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On Tuesday evening, Google will release a beta of its Chrome browser. Rupert Goodwins looks forward to the latest campaign in the browser war.
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Should be interesting to have a good 'usual' browsing session with this new browser.
Just need a website to break now to see how the error handling works.
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First impression is very good for me. But some sites which identify the client browser are going to be slow to catch up. Facebook is one: "Sorry, we're not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers ...". It's real hard as a web developer to support the few that are out there as it is and have your page rendered proper-like. Strict XHTML specs and things like Acid2 will improve for the future. But not the masses yet. We still have to cater for _all_ browsers that are out there at the moment on the not-a-mobile platform. Lowest common denominator it is.
This is an excellent point, and in my experience, it is financial sites, online banking, credit card companies and the such who are very careful about checking what browser you are using. I used to have exactly this problem with my bank when I first started using Opera. Obviously lots of others as well, but these kinds of sites are exactly the ones that you want to be sure that it works with, and which are likely to barf when they see a browser that they don't recognize. They are also, for obvious reasons some of the slowest to update, as any and all changes have to be very carefully checked and tested.