Category: web browsers

The tradeoff of the hyperlink

Nicholas Carr’s recent post on delinkification explores whether we’d be better off if we didn’t use hyperlinks in-line. He’s…

A billion years ago I worked on web browsers. I’ve written about them before, and got myself into trouble…

Note: This is an excerpt from the book Beautiful Teams (3/09), a collection of essays on teamwork. I’ve been criticized for…

Of all the stories in the web world, the story of the Opera web browser is one of the…

In writing my own review of Chrome, I stumbled across tons of articles about Google’s new browser. Many of…

I’ve written often about web browser design, so I happily downloaded Chrome, Google’s new web browser (download), a few…

AOL announced recently that the Navigator web browser will be no more. Navigator 1.0 started the web for most…

Rounding out this week of browser reviews: to be honest I can’t recall the last time I took a…

Something’s wrong if, after 5 and 2 years respectively, the two most popular web browsers deliver mutually low-key major…

It’s been months since I’ve commented on Firefox, IE and the state of web browser design. I’m back: I…

Someone kindly submitted my post to slashdot this morning, and it took the site down for awhile – apologies.…

It’s a sad day and a good day. For years I’ve held onto my IE install out of love.…

Thoughts on browser design, from someone who worked on IE 1.0 to 5.0. How to build a better browser.