Google launch new internet browser

As the title says, Google are bringing out their own open source browser, called Chrome that’s optimised for the next generation of information/vision rich web applications – find out more in this BBC article and directly from the horse’s mouth and a curious Google Book about the subject.

Firefox 3 released

Like Steve Austin, this version is better… faster… stronger (well, more secure anyway)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7456151.stm

The fat lady has sung

The Web Standards Project is an organisation which created the ACID tests as a benchmark for browser conformance and have recently released ACID3 which is designed to take into account modern “2.0″ style sites as well.

The test sends data to the browser which does it’s best to render it correctly, it is then scored depending how close the browser gets to the ideal render.

passing the test--web browsers and how they fare

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