Legal Research

Update Your Browser!

This is a useful study in case you want to encourage you institution and your users to install the latest (remarkably free) browser upgrade. According to this study, 45.2% of Internet users were not using the most secure browsers. and this is an optimistic number since it doesn't cover out-of-date and vulnerable browser plug-ins!

Understanding the Web browser threat: Examination of vulnerable online Web browser populations and the "insecurity iceberg"

Anyway, it's worthwhile to be up-to-date. And this short study is readable and not too geeky.

And while you're at it, make sure you have the Unicode compliance your users need. It's frustrating for too many users not to be able to display their language on public terminals. It's not just about serving diverse communities but even mathematicians and scientists needs to see the Greek characters in the formulae! The latest data shows that the majority of global websites are unicode compliant.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on July 08, 2008 (boomark / email).