Today’s Goals:
- Period 2: Maturity and responsibility reminder; finish first round of “How do you do that?”; and learn about browsers
- Period 3: Finish first round of “How do you do that?” and learn about browsers
Today’s Featured Site:
- https://madeby.google.com/– The world’s best-known website makes a major move into hardware
All About Browsers
- What is a browser and why do we use one?
- Let’s watch this basic browser intro video before we start exploring our browsers’ features
- What are some of the most popular browsers?
- Throwback Thursday: check out what a browser looked like when I was in high school!
- Is it important to know how your website looks in different browsers?
- Check out this informative site http://yourbrowser.is/ and try it in Chrome and Firefox
- Let’s look at web statistics for the school website that let me know what browsers our visitors are using to access the site
- Internet Explorer: what happened to the former browser and what’s new?
- Browser cache: what is it, how to clear it, and why?
- Developer tools: We will make use of the built-in developer tools for Chrome and Firefox this year. These tools can help us check out website code, find errors, preview changes, and much more! Today we’ll look at Firefox.
- Keeping up with the latest trends: Caniuse.com helps web developers find out which browsers support the latest innovations in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Other browsers: Let’s check some out.