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By: backdraft » Blog Archive » Linea de tiempo de navegadores

backdraft » Blog Archive » Linea de tiempo de navegadores — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:39:15 +0000

[...] 579 : Eric Meyer presenta la linea de tiempo de navegadores, prestar atención a los detalles en el gráfico como que Internet Explorer tiene 2 lineas [...]

By: Brenton Strine

Brenton Strine — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:29:29 +0000

I would very much like to see you go back in time to Mosaic and the other older browsers. The obscure browsers you mentioned don’t really matter and you shouldn’t worry about them. But the historic ones would be cool to see on this graph.

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Trevor Davis | Blog » Weekly Link Round-Up #14 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:08:21 +0000

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By: Chris Hester

Chris Hester — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:27:55 +0000

1. You should indicate which versions of IE are for Mac and Windows respectively.

2. The names of the browsers would be nice too.

3. “whether to extend it all the way back to 1989.” – Why of course – if it is to be fully accurate. I didn’t know browsers went back that far! Was 1989 Tim Berners-Lee’s initial web browser?

4. In your previous post about styles you wrote “In some browsers, inserted text is underlined. This leads to confusion, because most people expect underlined text to be a link.”. I find it odd that you used such deleted and underlined text in this post. One could cry hypocrisy, but you’re too nice for that. So I’ll just wonder silently about it. :-)

By: Martijn ten Napel

Martijn ten Napel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:51:20 +0000

Time flies when you are having fun; I can remember the introduction of Netscape 0.92b very clearly in my university years!

What is so nice about your posts Eric, is that so many people care to leave a link to other very useful sources of tackling timelines; it never ceases to amaze me how you get so much qualified response!

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:36:31 +0000

I like what you’ve done here. I’m wondering if there’s a reason why you’ve omitted Flock. Flock has recently received a bit more credibility by getting recommended by the Netscape folks.
http://blog.netscape.com/2008/01/16/netscape-recommends-flock-too/

Flock 1.0 was launched in November. 1.1 was just announced this week.

By: Chris A

Chris A — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:00:56 +0000

Eric, I'm using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 But also see the exact same rendering issues in IE7. View this image to see what I see.

By: Bob Monsour

Bob Monsour — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:49:05 +0000

Another approach to timeline construction can be found at MIT at: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

Regards,
-Bob

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:38:20 +0000

Neal, I've never seen an easy way to do timelines with HTML+CSS. I've seen one or two efforts similar to yours, but my thinking lies in a somewhat different direction. No proof my ideas would actually work, though! Chris, I scaled the images in an effort to get to a decent overall timeline size. In my browser, they scale quite nicely, with no dropped lines or other visual problems. Which browser are you using?

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:27:52 +0000

just noticing that netscape 7.2 was in 2004 not 2003.

Whoops! Had a typo in my notes. I’ll get it shifted. Thanks for pointing out the error.

hard to believe you would leave mozilla out of the mix.

I’m sure that Konqueror fans feel the same way. For what I was doing, I had to stick to a limited set of browsers (there’s only so much vertical space on a slide), and those were my choices. If I ever decide to go definitive, I’ll certainly add in Mozilla, but I think the Wikipedia sources do a better job of being definitive anyway.

By: chofmann

chofmann — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:22:06 +0000

XP/SP2 probably should be noted as well. Although it was an OS upgrade it included several changes to IE, some of which broke some backward compatability with previous versions of IE6. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx

hard to believe you would leave mozilla out of the mix. Mozilla 1.0, 1.4 and 1.7 had several million users and likely more marketshare than IE for Mac, or early Safari, or Opera releases.
You can get dates for those releases off http://www.mozilla.org/about/timeline

By: chofmann

chofmann — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:06:40 +0000

hey eric,

just noticing that netscape 7.2 was in 2004 not 2003.

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:18:01 +0000

No mention of Mozilla? I suppose it’s a bit difficult as it continued to be developed for a while after Firefox came along.

By: Chris A

Chris A — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:48:31 +0000

Very nice. It makes apparent Microsoft’s inexcusable 5 year gap from 6.0 to 7.0. Hey Eric, I’ll buy you a beer if you overlay market share. Just kidding!

[I am wondering why your scaling the images in the CSS (368.5px??). In browser scaling is no good, missing month line indicators, etc...]

Thanks, Eric!

By: Neal G

Neal G — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:29:16 +0000

That really puts into perspective how long it was between IE6 and IE7. Hopefully we won't have to wait that long again. Eric have you ever looked into an easy way to combine css and timelines/charts? I was bored awhile back and created this but it would be interesting to see somebody as smart as you come up with something using css and html.