Archive for September 7th, 2008

Chrome Strong Against Firefox And Safari, IE Untouched

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Chrome Strong Against Firefox And Safari, IE Untouched

Even though Google’s Chrome has been publically available for less than a week, its Web browser market share has already reached over 1 percent.

According to reports from Market Share and Stat Counter, the new Web browser from Google is making inroads into relatively well established browser turf. As of 2 p.m. EDT, Market Share reports that Chrome usage was at 1.03 percent, down from its high watermark of 1.57 percent set at 4 a.m. EDT on Thursday morning. Stat Counter notes that the global market share for Chrome is at 1.15 percent on September 4.

Interestingly, Stat Counter takes the analysis a step further and reports that Chrome is grabbing worldwide Web browser market shares from Safari and Firefox.

On September 3, the day Chrome was announced and launched to the public, Firefox’s market share dipped 0.82 percent, while Safari dropped 0.21 percent, giving Chrome a 1.11 percent share on the day. A day later, Chrome was up 0.04 percent while Firefox fell another 2.28 percent. Safari remained consistent with the day before, losing 0.22 percent.
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Google Analytics Now Tracks Chrome. Our Share: 6.23%

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Google Analytics Now Tracks Chrome. Our Share: 6.23%

Until today Google was saying Google Analytics would not track Chrome usage for some time. Today they added Chrome tracking, allowing site owners to see how many of their users are coming to the site from the Chrome Browser.

Clicky continues to track Chrome usage in the 2-3% range across its 45,000 sites. Use of Chrome among TechCrunch readers is much higher: 6.23% since Tuesday, making it the fourth most popular browser among TechCrunch readers after Firefox, IE and Safari.

Nearly all the market share was taken from IE. Firefox actually gained almost 2% share in the last two days, and Safari was up more than 1%. IE, though, dropped from 30.77% to 23.92%. Compare our previous chart without Chrome to this, taken a few minutes ago:

Google Chorme

The fact that a large percentage of readers are using Chrome doesn’t surprise me, given how many early adopter types read this blog. But i expected these users to be bailing on Firefox, not IE. If they hadn’t switched away from IE after four years of Firefox being around, it seems odd that they would jump ship now.

Source : techcrunch.com

Adobe FireWorks CS4 – Features and free Download

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Adobe FireWorks CS4 – Features and free Download

Adobe has launched the beta version of FireWorks CS4. Fireworks is a tool used to create, edit, and modify web graphics. The beta version is free for download and would expire once the final application is available.

Here are some of the new features of Adobe CS4

AIR Authoring: AIR provides developers to develop rich internet application that can run without needing an internet connection. Also it can run on any Operating System. Big Companies like EBay and AOL have created applications for users using AIR that can run on the desktop and use their services. Now suppose you wanted to create a document with interactive features, and also that it runs on a desktop without an internet connection, AIR is something that can help you. A really cool feature which sets Fireworks apart from the others.

PDF Creation:
Export Generate interactive and secured PDF documents. This is a great feature in case you want to save all your images in a PDF document without much fuss.

New User Interface:Earlier fireworks had a different user interface compared to the other applications in the Suite. This inconsistency has been removed by making sure that all applications share the same interface and look.
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Portable Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Beta

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Portable Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Beta

Adobe® Dreamweaver® software is the ideal tool for web designers, coders, and application developers of all levels. Enhanced coding functions make it a breeze to navigate through complex site pages at design time. Improved layout tools bring expedited workflows, from comp conception to client approval. Innovations throughout the Dreamweaver beta can help teams and individual developers alike reach the next level in performance and functionality.

Features:
The top new features of the next version of Dreamweaver include:

Live View

View your web pages under real-world browser conditions with the new Live View in Dreamweaver — while still retaining direct access to the code. The new rendering mode, which uses the open source rendering engine WebKit, displays your designs like a standards-based browser.
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Related Files

Manage the various files that make up the modern web page more efficiently in Dreamweaver. The Related Files feature displays all the documents associated with your current page, whether CSS, JavaScript, PHP, or XML, in a bar along the top of your document.

Code Navigator

The new Code Navigator pop-up window shows you all the code sources that affect your current selection. A click in either Code or Design view brings up the Code Navigator pop-up, which displays CSS rules, server-side includes, external JavaScript functions, Dreamweaver templates, Library files, iframe source files, and more.

CSS best practices

The Property inspector’s new CSS tab shows the styles for the current selection as well as all the applicable CSS rules. Hover over any property to view a tool tip with jargon-free English explanations of CSS principles. New CSS rules can be created and applied in the Property inspector panel and stored in the same document or an external style sheet.

Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks

Write JavaScript more quickly and accurately with improved support for JavaScript core objects and primitive data types. Work with popular JavaScript frameworks including jQuery, Prototype, and Spry.

HTML data sets

With HTML data sets functionality, you can create your data in a standard HTML table, a series of div tags, or even an unordered list and then choose Insert > Spry > Spry Data Set to integrate that data into a dynamic table on the page with sortable columns, a master-detail layout, or other sophisticated displays.

Photoshop Smart Objects

Photoshop and Dreamweaver integration has evolved to the next level of compatibility and functionality. Drag and drop an Adobe Photoshop® PSD file into a Dreamweaver page to create an image Smart Object.

Subversion integration

Dreamweaver integrates Subversion software for a more robust check-in/check-out experience with file versioning, rollback, and more. Once you’ve defined Subversion as your version control system, you can update your site to get the latest versions of its pages directly from within Dreamweaver; no third-party utility or command-line interface is required.

Adobe® AIR™ authoring support

Create multiplatform desktop applications from your Dreamweaver HTML and JavaScript sites with new Adobe AIR™ authoring support.

New user interface

Work faster and smarter across Dreamweaver and other components of the next version of Adobe Creative Suite® thanks to a new level of integration and common user interface elements.

source :http://labs.adobe.com/