Upgrade Your Web Browser - It's Free!
Once upon a time, browsing the internet on a PC largely meant choosing between a Netscape browser or Internet Explorer. With Internet Explorer loaded by default with Windows, it quickly became game over for Netscape. Users became comfortable, Microsoft became complacent with their 90%+ browser market share, and progress in web technology came grinding virtually to a halt in a browser world without choice.
That is, until a few years ago. From the ashes rose a new, open source, upstart browser called Firefox.
People around the world quickly started to realise that once again they finally had some choice. Innovation started to come back into the web technology field, and the pace of innovation has been accelerating ever since.
More recently, another big contender has stepped into the ring. Google recently launched their new Chrome browser to largely popular response. Add to that to arrival on the PC of the excellent Safari browser, formerly the most popular Mac browser, and a small resurgence in the awareness of the Opera browser that so many of Firefox's original great ideas where based on, and we finally start to see some great new choices emerging.
Modern web browsers have a whole load of new tricks up their sleaves to make your web experience better. Try out a new one every so often, you may be pleasantly surprised at how good each is becoming. The upcoming Internet Explorer 8 promises full standards compliance at last, something that will mean lower web development costs for business owners, and fewer headaches for web developers. Firefox is already the king of standards, but it also has a fantastic Swiss-army knife range of add-ons for just about anything you could imagine needing, and much more. Opera are the leaders in functionality innovation and quality code, and Safari brings with it the fantastically easy-on-the-eyes Mac fonts that Mac owners have loved for years.
Of course each is good at a lot more than just those things, so why not take a new web browser for a surf sometime soon, you might just be surprised at how much it could improve your web experience!
Codevelopment Web Design Perth design all our Perth business websites to fully adhere to modern web practices, which means that your business website will run exactly as intended on all major browsers, including the old and very problematic Internet Explorer 6 browser.
Codevelopment encourages all Perth businesses still using IE6 to consider upgrading to a modern browser, be it a more recent version of Internet Explorer, or one of the other great modern browsers out there. Not many people realise that because Internet Explorer 6 uses very old and outdated technology, much of the newer functionality and features available in modern browsers is not available to them as they surf their favourite websites. Web developers use a "progressive enhancement" approach to website design so as to not intrude on your browsing experience, so usually you won't even know that you're missing out.
Browsers are all free after all -- experience everything the web has to offer, and try out a new browser every so often -- you won't regret it.
