Introduction
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This gives site designers news about browsers design, helps find browsers, offers design resources, lists Internet stats, and sells books for building effective websites. This also gives designers news about selected site design and deployment tools. Finally, as wise font use is key to good design, this also reports new updated fonts, especially free flexible fonts. First published in Sep 1998, this is updated each Saturday, with news updated succinctly throughout each day.
♿Special Note: the Browser News wasn’t published from early June to late September 2020, due to an infection which has left me paralyzed from the waist down, confined to a bed and wheelchair.
News
Oct 3/2024, Arc 1.63.0-54427 // MacOS. NB : it is Edge 129 to browser sniffers. Get It⮞
Oct 3/2024, Microsoft Edge 129.0.2792.79,
bugs+security flaws fixed. NB: it is Chrome 129 or Safari to naïve browser sniffers. Get It⮞
Oct 3/2024, Microsoft Edge 128.0.2739.107ESC,
bugs+security flaws fixed.NB: it is Chrome 128 or Safari to naïve browser sniffers. Get It⮞
Font News:
for font news, see the Fonts ⮞ News page.
Tools News:
for tools news, see the Tools⮞ News page.
Oct 2/2024, Brave 1.70.123:
bugs+security flaws fixed NB: it is Chrome 129 to browser sniffers. Get It⮞
Oct 2/04, WHATWG HTML Living Standard updated. Read⮞NḄ: this page may load slowly. NḄ: it has no changelog.
Sep 28/2023, Browser News:
this week marks the 26th anniversary of the Browser News
Sep 25/2024, Maxthon 7.2.2.4800. NB : is Chome 109 or Safari to browser sniffers.Get It⮞
Sep 23/2024, WHATWG Console Living Standard updated. Read⮞NB: it has no changelog.
Sep 11/04, WHATWG HTML Living Standard updated. Read⮞NḄ: this page may load slowly. NḄ: it has no changelog.
Sep 10/2024, TypeScript 5.6 More⮞
Sep 5/2024, Waterfox G6.0.19,
bugs+security flaws fixed. NB: is Firefox 115 to browser sniffers. Get It⮞
W3C Standards:
for official web standards, see this site.
WHATWG Living Standards:
for the living web standards, see this site.
EcmaScript Standard:
for the EcmaScript (JavaScript) standard, see this site.
Unicode Standard:
for the Unicode standard, see this site.
The Focus
This focuses on browsers wanted to test websites, e.g. Arc, Avast, Brave, Chrome, DuckDuckGo, Edge, Epic, Firefox, Iron, K-Meleon, Maxthon, Norton, Opera, Pale Moon, Safari, SeaMonkey, TOR, Vivaldi, & Waterfox.
This also focuses on fonts for crafting websites.
There is much great information elsewhere, with no need to “reïnvent the wheel”, so this lists news concisely, with links to release notes other details.
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Your Browser
This lists information about your browser.
More details are available on the Resources ஞ Your Browser page.
NḄ: some
browsers have userAgent strings which identify them as other browsers: examples are
1 Brave, which identifies itself as Chrome,
Vivaldi, which also identifies itself as Chrome,
and 3 the TOR browser, which identifies itself as Firefox.
This makes it impossible for browser sniffers to reliably determine the correct browser name,
though sniffers can still determine the correct engine name.
NḄ: some browsers report major version numbers only; minor version numbers are hidden. For example, 1 Internet Explorer 11.0.140 falsely says that it’s Internet Explorer 11.0, Firefox 94.0. falsely says that it’s Firefox 94.0, and 3 Midori 0.5.11 falsely says it’s Midori 0.5. This makes it impossible for browser sniffers to reliably determine the correct browser version vectors.
NḄ: some browsers report the wrong version number/̣vector in their useṛAgent strings.
For example, Vivaldi 1.15.1147.64 says that it’s 1.96.1147.64. This makes it harder for browser sniffers to reliably determine the correct browser version vectors.
