What could be described as an end to an era, especially to those of use who knew Internet Explorer 6 as all that was, Microsoft announced last week that it changing the underlying component (Rendering Engine) that powers its current web browser, Microsoft Edge, to use the same one used by Google for Chrome. The …
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The History of the Browser User Agent
I came across this very old article on the history of the web browser user agent string via OS News. And behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), …
Time to make sure your website works under a secure connection
The push to secure peoples website connections is going a lot further. At first it was login forms that where getting labeled as insecure (most prominently in Firefox). Now Google, with Chrome is going a step further, from July this year all sites which are not using encrypted connections (old http) will be marked as …
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