Firefox 3 has been released. With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before.
Top New Features;
One-Click Bookmarking - Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily. And inbuilt Del.icio.us support.
Improved Performance - View Web pages faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
Smart Location Bar - Find the sites you love in seconds—enter a term for instant matches that make sense.
Password Manager - Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
Instant Web Site ID - Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.
Full Zoom - See any part of a Web page, up close and readable, in seconds.
Platform-Native Look & Feel - Browse with a Firefox that’s integrated into your computer’s operating
system.
Add-ons Manager - You can now find and install add-ons directly in your browser. You no longer need to visit the add-ons Web site, simply fire up the new Add-ons Manager.
Browser Look & Feel - Dress up your browser as you like it. With themes, choose a darkened control panel reminiscent of a space ship, faux wood paneling, or hundreds of other unique looks to surround your surfing.
Download Manager - An all new manager lets you download seamlessly, with even greater security. A pause and resume feature means there’s no need to wait for a download to finish before you disconnect.
The Language of Firefox - Firefox speaks your language like no other browser on earth. Because the Web is a worldwide resource and we believe that resource belongs to the people, we’ve made our browser available in as many local languages as possible. IT HAS THE SINHALA VERSION TOO.
Graphics Engine Improvements - Improved text rendering is just the beginning of the benefits of an all new graphic engine for Firefox 3.
Advanced Graphics - You have to see it to believe it. The rendering of text and graphics, including SVG and Canvas, is faster, sharper and more true-to-life than ever before, thanks to our new graphics engine.
Offline Browsing - Take your computer offline and still have information at your fingertips. Certain enabled sites may allow applications—like your Web-based email—to stay with you at all times.
Validation is also an important part of web development. Many errors that are hard to find can discover during validation. This is like spell checking and proofreading for grammar and syntax in a document. but is much more precise and reliable than any of those processes because it is dealing with precisely-specified machine languages, not with nebulously-defined human natural language. You can validate your (X)HTML page as well as your CSS.
Here I’m not going brief you about Web Standards, but I’m going to tell how we can use those best practices in Web standards to produce a valid (X)HTML page.
Benefits of having a valid code
Future compatibility: Your website will compatible with future web browsers.
Simpler development and maintenance: Creating Valid (X)HTML Documents Means Cleaner Code and Easier Maintenance.
Faster download and rendering of web pages: Less (X)HTML results in smaller file sizes and quicker downloads. Modern web browsers render pages faster when they are in their standards mode than when they are in their backwards compatible mode.
Better accessibility: Semantic (X)HTML, where structure is separated from presentation, makes it easier for screen readers and alternative browsing devices to interpret the content.
Better search engine rankings: The separation of content and presentation makes the content represent a larger part of the total file size. Combined with semantic markup this will improve search engine rankings.
Simpler adaptation to any media or screen devices: A semantically marked up document can be easily adapted to print and alternative browsing devices, like handheld computers and cellular phones, just by linking to a different CSS file. You can also make site-wide changes to presentation by editing a single file.
Best Practices…
Include the correct DOCTYPE declaration at the beginning of the file. A DOCTYPE (short for “document type declaration”) informs the validator which version of (X)HTML you’re using, and must appear at the very top of every web page. DOCTYPEs are a key component of compliant web pages: your markup and CSS won’t validate without them.
The DOCTYPE is case-sensitive so use the correct case: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "- //W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" />
Add the attribute xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" to the <html> element.
Close all elements: Omitting </p> is not valid anymore.
Change all elements to lowercase: <P> becomes <p>.
Today morning my Google Reader showed me a great news which we have waited for long time :), which is the Apple Safari Browser 3 Public Beta, The world’s web browser is now on Windows too. This is a great relief for me as i’m using Windows machine & switching to Mac when checking the site on Safari. So now things getting easier and easier
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