What 3Sixty Knows…

According to a new report from StatCounter, it looks like Firefox has finally beaten IE – 38.11% versus 37.52% respectively – to take the top spot in Europe year-on-year by just half a percentage point.

What’s interesting to note is that the report also suggests Chrome continues its meteoric rise in gaining market share, seemingly continuing to take bites out of both Internet Explorer’s and Firefox’s user base—even whilst those two browsers grapple for the top spot.

It’ll be interesting to see if and when Chrome’s market share levels out over the next few months. With both Internet Explorer 9 and the long-overdue Firefox 4 both set to be released any week now, it could end up being a healthy three-way scrap for users.

Yet another technique for getting PNG transparency working in Internet Explorer 6. Emerging late last year, this latest piece of JavaScript-based trickery leverages IE’s flawed implementation of VML — as opposed to the more traditional image filter exploit of previous PNG/IE6 hacks.

It’s already being touted as the new defacto solution, even though it’s still in its infancy. We should use this from now on when trying to get full PNG alpha transparency working in IE6.

This article makes mention of Microsoft’s claim that IE 8 is fully standards compliant, and hence a lot of sites don’t look right when viewed using it…

*smiles smugly *

But it mentions that one of the sites looking mangled is the BBC site.
Now this works absolutely fine with Firefox 3, which scores very highly on the Acid3 test.
Just makes me wonder which set of standards IE 8 will actually be compliant with.