gsnedders

After nearly 7 years in Bugzilla, it seems as if text-shadow will finally make it into Gecko 1.8.1.

With Firefox already at [live number of] downloads, IE is losing ground. Fast.

Now almost 6 months after the inital release of Firefox 1.0, it already makes up for around 10% of web users. Why does this matter? The Gecko engine, which Firefox is based upon, supports many of the latest web standards, whereas browsers, such as IE, which haven't had a major update this millennium, lack some 7/8 year old standards. Also, another matter is important - Security. Although Firefox is not that much more secure than IE, IE's defaults leave it vulnerable to attack, Firefox's defaults, on the other hand, leave it far less exposed.

I'm in no means saying everyone should use Firefox, any browser that supports recent standards is fine in my opinion, such as Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, Netscape, Galeon (all based off the Gecko engine), Safari, Omniweb (all based off the WebCore engine, which is in turn based off KHTML) and Konqueror (based off the KHTML engine).