Browsers

German Federal Office of Information Security recommends Chrome

Today the BSI, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, released a best practice guide for Windows users as part of their overall guidelines and recommendations for Cyber Security. Security has always been a core focus of Chrome, so we’re…

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CSS3 3D Transforms in IE10

CSS3 features make it easier to build rich and immersive Web experiences. A
recent post described how Web developers add personality to their sites with
CSS3 Transitions and Animations.
CSS3 3D Transforms add another dimension (litera…

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Firefox Adds Powerful New Developer Tools

Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without… Read more

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Web Sites and a Plug-in Free Web

The transition to a plug-in free Web is happening today. Any site that uses plug-ins
needs to understand what their customers experience when browsing plug-in free.
Lots of Web browsing today happens on devices that simply don’t support plug-…

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Creating Files through BlobBuilder

As Web sites transition more and more into Web applications, working with files in meaningful ways is becoming increasingly
important. Starting with Platform Preview 2, IE10 includes support for the File API,
enabling developers to read and slice fil…

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Debugging IndexedDB Applications

IndexedDB is a
W3C Working Draft that enables JavaScript developers to store, search, and retrieve data on the user’s local client,
even when
Internet connectivity is disabled. This blog post describes IDBExplorer, a tool we use internally to de…

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Bringing Chromebooks to every classroom

Cross-posted from the Google Enterprise Blog.Editor’s note: We’re posting this electronic communication from sunny Orlando, where we’re chatting with schools at the annual FETC ed-tech conference. We wanted to share highlights from our keynote this…

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This Week in Privacy

In
the last ten years Microsoft has invested heavily in user privacy. Just like
security, privacy considerations are baked into every Microsoft product. It is almost
a year since the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
an international com…

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This Week in Privacy

In
the last ten years Microsoft has invested heavily in user privacy. Just like
security, privacy considerations are baked into every Microsoft product. It is almost
a year since the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
an international com…

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IE10 Compat Inspector

Compat Inspector is now available
for IE10. Use Compat Inspector to quickly identify if Internet Explorer platform changes affect your site. Whether you’re
preparing for IE10 or still updating for IE9, run Compat Inspector on any page expe…

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