Browsers
?I won?t support IE 6 in 2009?
At a New Years Eve party, a friend help up a drink and toasted to his company deciding to discontinue direct support of IE 6 in 2009, and letting users know that the site may work better with IE 7 or ....... read more
4 days ago
New Years Resolution: File a browser bug?
John Resig has laid out his thoughts on a Web Developers Responsibility, and it comes down to working with various up and coming browser versions and filing bugs:
Its safe to say that the biggest ....... read more
7 days ago
Giving developers and users responsiveness data
I posted on my personal blog about using the crowd to tell us about browser responsiveness in which I discussed giving developers information about browser responsiveness and how add-ons can affect it ....... read more
13 days ago
Whatever? make sure your :hover works for everyone
Peter Nederlof just released version 3 of whatever:hover, his library that makes sure that :hover works just fine for the IE Browsers out there.
The new version is faster, better documented, uses a CS ....... read more
15 days ago
Write your own Yahoo! BrowserPlus service with new SDK
Lloyd Hilalel and the Yahoo! BrowserPlus team have released a BrowserPlus SDK which allows you to easily create your own services:
We're extremely happy to announce the availability of the BrowserP ....... read more
17 days ago
Finally something to get a few more users off of IE 6?
We desperately want users to upgrade to the latest and greatest. A prominent and respected Web citizen recently said With Ajax we are developing to 1997 technology, and are restricted by IE 6. What ....... read more
20 days ago
App Discover: An add-on to aid discoverability in the browser
Snuck over this post about getting better discoverability into the browser from me personal blog
Greasemonkey and Fluid userscripts. AIR and the new Titanium apps. Browser add-ons. When you go to a we ....... read more
22 days ago
IE8 December Release and Accessibility
The IE8 team let their partners know about a December "Partner Build" that contains the following changes since IE8b2:
Accessibility-ARIA
ARIA attribute names containing dashes, such as ?aria-checked? ....... read more
Thu,
11 Dec 2008
The IE 6 Equation. Finally some math to mask the pain
That is the equation that Jeremy Keith shares with us on his article for this years 24ways. He is discussing IE6, which he sets to the variable of $web_designer_nemesis (variable used to equal NN4).
....... read more
Mon,
08 Dec 2008
Meer Meer: Cross browser testing all through your one browser!
The most exciting part of Adobe MAX last week was a service that was announced by Paul Gubbay at the Sneaks session that shows cool tech that Adobe folk are working on. His (very early stage) servi ....... read more
Mon,
24 Nov 2008
UA Profiler: A second look
We posted on Steve's UA Profiler tool, and John Resig has taken a nice look at the current results.
It actually now looks like Minefield (Firefox nightly) is getting 10 out of 11, and the other brows ....... read more
Tue,
25 Nov 2008
Live Blogging the Yahoo BrowserPlus Release Party
Austin Chau and I are here on the Yahoo campus for the Yahoo BrowserPlus release party. I'm going to blog the event as it happens here (Disclosure: I work for Google with the Open Web Advocacy and Gea ....... read more
Tue,
18 Nov 2008
User-Agent Headers: Crazy? Or Craziest?
DeWitt Clinton reminder me of just how out of control User-Agent headers are by posting one from his logs:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; ....... read more
Sun,
09 Nov 2008
Adopting WebKit in IE?
Some people are getting excited at the thought of IE adopting WebKit as the renderer. They seem to think this may happen based on this tidbit:
Addressing a developer conference in Sydney Australia, ....... read more
Fri,
07 Nov 2008
Yahoo! BrowserPlus Released
Yahoo! has had a big day with a lot of Open platform releases (OpenSocial, YAP, etc) and to add to that they have released Yahoo! BrowserPlus version 2.1.6, which is important as it opens up the Brow ....... read more
Wed,
29 Oct 2008
CSS Expressions are no more in IE 8 standards mode
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CSS:
div.title { background-color: expression( (new Date()).getHours()%2 ? "#B8D4FF" : "#F08A00" ) }
The CSS expressions of old will no ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
Greasemonkey, Chrome Edition
Chromium gained an important patch over the weekend, with the introduction of Greasemonkey support. The patch came from none other than Aaron Boodman, creator of the original Firefox add-on, and also ....... read more
Mon,
20 Oct 2008
Fennec (Mobile Firefox) Alpha 1 Released
Mark Finkle has announced the first alpha release of Mozillas mobile web browser, Fennec. While there was some discussion in recent days of progress on a Windows Mobile version, this release runs on ....... read more
Mon,
20 Oct 2008
Google Chrome History Issue
Amongst the reactions to Google's release of Chrome was the developer's howl of pain at the thought of another major browser on which to do compatibility testing. Google's generally asserts that Safar ....... read more
Thu,
16 Oct 2008
Non-Euclidean Browser UI
The video above by Ron Brinkmann is his mockup of a non-euclidean browser UI which looks a touch like the magnifying glass tool on the iPhone, and aims to give you your data in a readable way, while ....... read more
Wed,
15 Oct 2008