Tag Archives: web browser

Trends in the WebSphere

Posted on 6 July 2009 by Rick Mason

A couple of news items that signal trends in the way the web will evolve: Internet Explorer has lost a significant amount of market share recently. This is good news in a couple of ways.  First, it signals growing diversity … Continue reading →

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Aw, snap!

Posted on 27 October 2008 by Rick Mason

On a lighthearted, and non-library, note:  here is a screenshot of what the Google Chrome browser shows when a web page goes kaploee:

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Google Chrome

Posted on 1 September 2008 by Rick Mason

Exciting news in the browser wars:  Google is releasing has released a beta version of a web browser that it is calling Chrome. Why does this matter?  The open-source browser will feature: Every tab running in isolation from the other … Continue reading →

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Web Browser Insecurity

Posted on 11 August 2008 by Rick Mason

Understanding the Web Browser Threat is an essay that details web users and the browsers they use.  The primary focus is on how current one’s browser version is, as opposed to evaluating one browser against others. It is too little … Continue reading →

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Making a Business Case for Open Source ILS

Posted on 6 June 2008 by Rick Mason

Making a Business Case for Open Source ILS is a column by Marshall Breeding that appeared in the March 2008 issue of Computers in Libraries. You may remember Marshall from his annual survey of Integrated Library Systems (the words behind … Continue reading →

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Day of the Blog

Posted on 8 February 2008 by Rick Mason

This will be the eighth post today, possibly a record. Not that I was trying… there were just too many interesting bloggable items, and for once there was enough time to post them all. In addition, and the purpose of … Continue reading →

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Firefox : Add to Search Bar

Posted on 29 November 2007 by Rick Mason

For those of you using the Firefox web browser (and if not, why?) here is an add-on that is currently impressing me to pieces : Add to Search Bar. It isn’t flashy, or obvious, but it does one thing that … Continue reading →

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WebRunner

Posted on 24 July 2007 by Rick Mason

WebRunner is a project derived from Mozilla’s Firefox web browser that lets you install a site-specific browser on a computer.  The browser would be lacking the usual menus and toolbars, and would open everything within one browser window. This is designed for … Continue reading →

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YouOS

Posted on 24 August 2006 by Rick Mason

From the folks at Google and a team from MIT comes YouOS, an experimental “web operating system” which basically gives you a computer desktop that you access through your web browser. Why is this significant? This is more than your … Continue reading →

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