IE6 was released to the world 10 years ago. Now Microsoft is saying "Goodbye".
(from the
MSNBC Article) "To help expedite the farewell (or rather, the execution) of its ancient Web browser, Microsoft says next month it will start to upgrade Windows customers automatically to the latest version of IE available for their computer."
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posted by kellygrape
on Dec 15, 2011 -
87 comments
Dead Cyborg has the heart of a text adventure within the body of a 3d engine (
youtube trailer).
Caveats: donationware - future episodes dependent on donations. burster plug-in required for browser play
posted by Sparx
on Aug 1, 2011 -
6 comments
The official Google Earth plugin is one free download that makes all sorts of cool stuff possible in your browser. There's
a full screen version of the program (complete with underwater views and 3D buildings) which can be searched by entering queries at the end of the URL. There's
a framed version with support for layers, historical imagery, day/night cycles, and the Google Sky starmap.
Less useful but more fun are Google's collection of "experiments" demonstrating the possibilities of the Earth API, including
a "Geo Whiz" geography quiz,
an antipode locater,
a 3D first-person view of San Francisco,
a virtual route-follower, and
MONSTER MILKTRUCK!, a crazy fun driving simulator that lets you careen a virtual milk truck through the Googleplex campus, ricochet off the Himalayas, or explore any other place you care to name.
Lots more can be found in the
Google Earth Gallery -- highlights include
a look at mountaintop removal mining,
a real-time flight tracker,
a guide to trails and outdoor recreation,
a 360 panorama catalog,
geotagged Panoramio photos,
and the comprehensive crowdsourced
Google Earth Community Layer.
And while it's too large to view online, don't miss loading
the Metafilter user location map into a desktop version of Google Earth!
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posted by Rhaomi
on Jun 9, 2011 -
15 comments
Echo Bazaar is a place where you can play The Greatest Game, or seek your Ambitions, or, what the heck, just Seduce an Artist's Model! Ever since London was dragged one mile below the Earth's surface -- and one mile closer to Hell -- by a huge flurry of billions of bats, finding your fortune in the city has been something of a different beast.
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posted by cthuljew
on Apr 14, 2010 -
44 comments
What the Internet knows about you. "This project was started by a small group of Web developers and security researchers in order to highlight the problem of
Web browser history detection -- a problem which can dramatically affect the Web and hurt many people, if not solved quickly. Our direct goal is to educate the mainstream public and show them the direct consequences of allowing this aspect of Web browser behavior, as well as provide some solutions which mitigate the problem. However, since there are no existing satisfactory
solutions, our other objective is to point the attention of browser developers to this issue and strongly encourage them to implement the necessary and long-overdue fixes."
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posted by homunculus
on Sep 3, 2009 -
45 comments
Metaplace Raph Koster's customisable, isometric, browser-based 3d environment has now entered open beta.
caveats: Registration required, some Beta flakiness (previously)
posted by Sparx
on May 17, 2009 -
16 comments
Blackbird. Are you reading this page on Firefox, Opera, or IE? More importantly, are you black? Then you might want to check out Blackbird: "a web browser designed for the African-American community."
posted by zardoz
on Dec 8, 2008 -
84 comments
Plainview is a free full-screen web browser for your mac.
Until now, you had two options for showing Internet work: capture it all to Quicktime and throw it into Powerpoint or Keynote (looks nice but no interactivity as everything has to be canned) or show it in your browser (interactive but with ugly chrome distracting people from your beautiful sites).
So here's a third option. Fire up your full-screen browser and let your audience focus on the work.
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posted by krautland
on Oct 27, 2008 -
52 comments
Revamping the browser Browser add ons such as
Browster for IE and Firefox or entirely new browsers such as
Flock (limited info) promise to rework the way browsing has been done during the IE only years from 1997 to 2004. More inside...
posted by hockeyman
on Jun 12, 2006 -
38 comments
iRider. Is it more than just an IE shell? Could it possibly be worth paying for? Can it really do anything that Firefox can't? Discuss.
posted by bingo
on Apr 5, 2006 -
49 comments
Opera Mini is now available worldwide, for free. A quality web browser for your Java enabled cellphone.
posted by mr.marx
on Jan 24, 2006 -
35 comments
Maxthon website Internet Explorer has not been updated for some time and
competing browsers have improved on its ageing feature-set. But there's no need to ditch IE.
Maxthon provides tabbed functionality and a lots more besides to give you a taste of what is likely to be included in IE7.
posted by bobbyelliott
on Jun 5, 2005 -
60 comments
