TeachLearn:Browser Justification

Ok. So we now have a variety of Web Browsers, so one issue that affects many of us is the need to have multiple browsers installed at our Institutions, So how do we justify this to Computer Services..

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Market share
For students developing web pages there is a need for them to try it in the most popular web browsers
 * Browsers that should be considered (Usage stats Jan 2009): Internet Explorer (68%), Firefox (22%), Safari (8%) and Chrome (1%). (Wikipedia, 2009)
 * Also refer to Web Browsers

Internet Explorer

 * Current Industry Standard

IE 8 RTM and Top 5 reasons for IT Pros to deploy
1. Productivity 2. Security 3. Granular Management 4. Easy to Deploy 5. Easy to Migrate
 * Performance
 * Reliability
 * Search
 * Accelerators
 * Webslices
 * Smart Screen filiter
 * In-private browsing
 * Per site and Per-User Active X filtering
 * Domain highlighting

Tesar (2009, Mar)

Firefox
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is an open-source web browser, and is run using the 'Gecko' layout engine.


 * Add-ins
 * Zotero a free referencing add-in
 * HTML/CSS tools - Firebug
 * JavaScript debugging tools

Google Chrome
Google Chrome is an open source web browser built by Google under the Chromium project (Wikipedia, 2009).