Posts in: Browsers
- The Pencil Project, Prism and the browser as platform
- The Pencil Project extension brings the power of prototyping and simple GUI development to Firefox 3. It takes advantage of Firefox’s Gecko rendering engine for an easy-to-use application for making layouts. You can import bitmap images, add rich text or plain text, and when you’re done, export your drawing as a PNG file. One downside: it [...] [24 Jul 2008]
- Microsoft changes course on IE 8
- They listened (mostly)! Microsoft announced today that Internet Explorer 8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. Internet Explorer will retain the version 7 rendering engine. But rather than opt-in to version 8 rendering, developers will have to opt-out of it. Developers and / or server administrators can [...] [3 Mar 2008]
- Web Standards Project releases Acid3
- Three years after the Acid2 test was released, the WaSP has developed Acid3. What’s Acid? It’s a reference test designed to help browser developers determine whether they are complying with W3C specifications, and how well they handle invalid code. Acid1 and Acid2 tested for compliance with CSS 1 and CSS 2 specifications. Acid3 also tests for [...] [3 Mar 2008]
- Sniffing users’ browser history and Firefox extensions to stop it
- Go read Niall Kennedy’s post about using JavaScript to sniff a user’s browser history. It’s an inventive use of your user’s browser history, though I suspect it could potentially be used — in combination with cookies and logins — to detect which of your users are also regular porn surfers. With that little bit of fearmongering out [...] [8 Feb 2008]
- On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it
- For some background on this post, please start by reading Aaron Gustafson’s Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 on this week’s edition of A List Apart, or any of the links from my Internet Explorer 8 round-up post. This post is an extended version of my comment there. About 6 years ago, I remember [...] [25 Jan 2008]
- Internet Explorer 8 round-up
- My take: On IE8: Pragmatic and practical, but I still don’t like it UPDATES: Microsoft versioning: accessibility implications What Internet Explorer’s change means for accessibility. Best Standards Support Sam Ruby offers a server-side suggestion for handling IE8 content requests. Mike Davies argues that this should and perhaps could be the end of the line for Internet Explorer. Microsoft᾿s “Super Standards” Mode: Important [...] [22 Jan 2008]
- IE8 will pass the ACID test
- Or as Molly put it: Yes Ladies and Gentleman, We Have a Smiley. From the IEBlog: … I’m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode. While supporting the features tested in Acid2 is important for many reasons, it is just one of several [...] [19 Dec 2007]
- Recommended: Anil Dash’s ‘Google and Theory of Mind’
- Anil analyzes Google’s Knol product and suggests that Google may be dancing awfully close to the ‘evil’ line. Two points to think about: Theory of mind is the awareness that others are aware, and its absence is the weakness that Google doesn’t know it has. This shortcoming exists at a deep cultural level within the organization, and [...] [14 Dec 2007]
