Outside the era HTML 5, a new Web standards, promising different beauty without any plug-ins. Although formally it is still in beta, many of these aspects are quite stable and ready for implementation. The more active and engaged in Google, Apple, Mozilla and Opera.

But Microsoft, as evident from the diagram. In the test on html5test.com and IE 8, and a demo version of IE 9 scored a ridiculous 19 points out of 160 possible. But HTML 5 is considered the main strength of the IE 9, along with accelerated engine JavaScript. With all the hype surrounding the alleged emphasis on the HTML 5 IE 9, he dials the same number of points, as IE 8, which is almost the least.

Thus, Internet Explorer continues to stand out against the backdrop of an extremely low compliance to Web standards. This is unlikely to change with the release of the final version of IE 9, as in Microsoft earlier said they did not attach much importance to standards. And today, Microsoft is no longer universal indulgence in the form of 99% of the browser market, where developers targeting IE, but not to standards. The share of IE is constantly decreasing , and that taking on Microsoft to change the situation? Apparently, nothing.

Via Geek Technica

Site Electronista wrote that, according to recent data, Android-tablet from the Google Chrome browser will receive a full-featured with support for Flash.

At a recent conference in Los Angeles, Eric Schmidt also said that the new tablet, may not be the acme of perfection immediately after launch, but also iPad now also not in order. According to head of Google, both plates have "two or three years" for cleanup.

For a tablet Google, too, like Apple, will enter into contracts with publishers of books and magazines. It will focus on an open platform and a wide range of different applications, including utilities, allowing to modify the OS itself.

Be that as it may, it is important to remember that Apple and Google have different goals in promoting tablet. Apple aims to earn themselves plates, whereas Google wants to use them to expand the audience the Internet (and if not accurately, the audience of its content). Naturally, the browser in this approach plays a central role.

Via Electronista

The new version of Google Chrome, appeared Model feature pages. It works quite simple – you just go to the "enemy" site, and your browser will immediately offer to translate it into their native language user.

At the moment the new service is in beta testing, so in addition to crooked transfer may be faced with a purely software glitches. Nevertheless, service looks quite useful and does not burden the user install additional plug-ins.

Google, by the way, recently paid particular attention to the problem of machine translation. Every day specialists "twisted" system avtoobucheniya service on the basis of the texts on the Internet and adjustments of enthusiasts and professional translators. Google plans are ambitious enough: soon the company even going to provide voice translation service.

According to NetApplications, Google Chrome was the only browser, which managed to increase market share up to February: it amounted to 5,61%. All other browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari, have handed over the position: up to 61.58%, 24.23% and 4.45% respectively. By the way, Firefox delivers the position of the third month in a row, and this is the first time in its history.

At the operating system market share of Windows 7 has increased from 7,57% to 8,92%, while the total share of all versions of Windows was 92,12%.

We continued decline in Apple, Mac OS X entrenched at around 5.02%. Updates Snow Leopard was not enough to slow the departure of users with Leopard. Passed position and Linux: the proportion of open OS was 0.98%. It is noteworthy that the percentage of iPhone for the first time broke the bar in half a percent.

Via Electronista

Google announced the simultaneous release of 1500 extensions to its browser Chrome. Since last December, they were in beta testing, but only now have the status of the final version.

Among the extensions are modules for quick access to certain services and sites: Twitter, Google Dictionary, Google Mail Checker, etc. Another extension, Bookmark Sync, allows you to synchronize bookmarks across multiple computers with Chrome. Extensions will work in Windows and Linux.

Via TechRadar