In the first part of this benchmark, the topic was text rendering. As you may remember, the winner was the new version of Internet Explorer - 8 beta 2, followed by Firefox, Opera and Chrome. Safari was the looser regarding text rendering due to its weight of letters (normal text looks like bold on Safari), and also due to its too blurry text. In this second part of the benchmark, we will see how browsers behave around images.
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On the 1st of January this year, one of the most important photography community, JPG Magazine, announced that it will discontinue its activity because of its financial situation. With almost 200,000 creative photographers, JPG Magazine is one respected publication with many fans. The news shocked the people from the photographic world and many of them wanted to help JPG Magazine in one way or another. It seems that they did because in the first post the closing date for JPG Mag was January 5th. Now in another post due to the large movement and positive feedback JPG Magazine will live another week in order to find a possible investor.
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Due to food specialties and the period of the year, the results of Gratings 2008 were delayed. In this case we will start immediately to announce the big winners of the 1st Annual Graphic Rating Awards. As you know this year there were only 3 categories: Best Redesign, Worst Redesign and Vaporware.
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There is just one day left before the Gratings 2008 winners will be announced. This 1st Annual Graphic Rating Awards is coming to an end and now it is your last chance to vote. Vote for the Best Redesign of the Year, Worst Redesign of the Year and Vaporware of the Year. You can vote at the following address:
http://www.graphicrating.com/2008/12/10/gratings-2008-voting-session/ - Cheers!

In the first post from this benchmark, you received the basic details about the most competitive browsers on the market. In this one, we will analyze browsers for one of their main function - text rendering. Whether you are searching on web, reading on Wikipedia or blogging, your main interaction and focus is text. So let’s see how browsers deal with this.
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It seems like the W3C Validator needs some monetary support in order to offer good quality services. The W3C Validator is the supreme web standards application that helps you in fixing and developing valid code. As a web designer I will support for now this initiative by adding their button for donations. If you can please help the W3C the way you can in keeping this awesome tool alive and productive.
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Remember that there are few days until the winners and “winners” of the 1st Annual Graphic Rating Awards will be decided. So, vote for your favorite competitor on each of the 3 sections: Best Redesign, Worst Redesign and Vaporware. To take the survey follow the next link:
Gratings 2008 - Voting Session.
Hurry up! You have only 7 days before the voting session will end. Cheers!

I know that in the last weeks I’ve only wrote about good designs and well structured user interfaces. This post is something different. It is first a manifesto against so called “designers”, against lack of innovation and inspiration, against plagiarism. I know that these words are pretty heavy, but bear with me and you will see how far some folks will go.
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The web browsers war is far from finished and the competitors are gathering their strength to capture users’ vote. The most important thing is that now, there are several competitors compared to the early days of the web, when Netscape and Internet Explorer were the only true players. And everyone wants the Internet browser crown. Actually I will not be surprise to see Facebook developing their own browser. It’s that dynamic the Internet browsers competition. But, until Facebook does that, I will present today’s competitors. Continue »

Yes, it is here! The latest version of the Wordpress platform - Wodpress 2.7 “Coltrane” is available for download. This is by far the most impressive version of Wordpress ever. So, buckle up and let’s drive through these awesome new features that Wordpress 2.7 has. Continue »