Browser Bits and Bobs for May 7, 2008
May 7, 2008 – 8:29 pm- Microsoft ships XP Service Pack 3 with continued support for Internet Explorer 6.
- Firefox wins favorite browser in the LinuxJournal Readers’ Choice Awards with 86% of votes cast.
- John Resig implements a complete HTML parser entirely in JavaScript. Multiple interfaces are provided including SAX and a DOM builder. Amazing.
- Flock wins a Webby award in the Social Networking category, beating out stalwarts like Facebook, Bebo and Ning.
- Opera releases the long-awaited Dragonfly, taking it straight to Firebug with CSS and DOM inspectors, JavaScript debugging and more. Particularly significant considering that some developers consider Firebug to be one of the most compelling reasons for using Firefox.