Posts in: Browsers
- On Apple’s iPad, HTML5, and the future of Flash
- So Apple announced the iPad, and it won’t support Flash. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Neither the iPhone nor iPod Touch support Flash. Indeed most mobile platforms don’t (yet) support Flash. Even the smartest of smart phones have limited processing power and storage space compared to laptops and desktops. According to Steve Jobs, Apple doesn’t support [...] [4 Feb 2010]
- On bringing clarity to privacy policies
- If Privacy Icons become widely adopted (and I think Mozilla is in a unique position to help make that happen) then the correlation of good companies using the icons and bad companies not using the icons becomes rather strong. If a privacy policy doesn’t include any icons it’s synonymous with that policy making no guarantees [...] [13 Jan 2010]
- Firefox 3.6 to support multiple file input, File API
- Firefox 3.6 supports multiple file input. This new capability allows you to get several files as input at once, using standard technologies. This is a big improvement, since you used to be constrained to one file at a time, or needed to use a third party (proprietary) application. This will be particularly useful, for example, [...] [10 Dec 2009]
- Remy Sharp introduces you to web storage in HTML5
- From his 24 Ways piece, Breaking Out The Edges of The Browser: The Web Storage API is basically cookies on steroids, a unhealthy dosage of steroids. Cookies are always a pain to work with. First of all you have the problem of setting, changing and deleting them. Typically solved by Googling and blindly relying on PPK’s [...] [2 Dec 2009]
- It’s not Apple. It’s you.
- Peter-Paul Koch responds to recent claims that Apple is damaging its brand with its archaic iPhone App Store approval process. He says, quite plainly, iPhone developers are stupid. Why? In order to release an iPhone application without having to submit it to Apple’s insane App Store process, developers could just use Web technologies and create Web [...] [23 Nov 2009]
- WebKit gets Web Inspector Updates
- Yesterday the folks at Surfin’ Safari announced several new and/or improved features to its Web Inspector. Web Inspector is a debugging tool similar to Firebug and Page Speed or YSlow. These updates will be be available in the next version of Safari. To use them now, install a nightly build of WebKit. The latest version [...] [4 Nov 2009]
- @font-face and WOFF round up
- Web fonts took a big step closer to reality last month with a few announcements regarding the Web Open Font Format or WOFF. A big hurdle to the implementation @font-face and font linking has been a two-fold issue of licensing: Not all fonts are licensed for embedding and linking on the web. Major browser developers have differing [...] [2 Nov 2009]
- Firefox 3.5 JavaScript vulnerability; WebKit 3D CSS transforms for Leopard
- Day old news because I am fresh like that. Critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 The vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling the JIT in the JavaScript engine. This post tells you how to do so. 3D CSS transforms available in Leopard via WebKit nightlies The feature was already available in Safari 4 for Snow Leopard, but now it’s [...] [15 Jul 2009]
- Firefox: Change ‘Clear Private Data’ defaults
- Sometimes when developing and testing a site, you need to clear your browser’s cache. Clearing the cache is particularly important when testing SWF files. Browsers tend to hold on to those like a pitbull on a chew toy. Firefox makes it easy to clear your cache with its Clear Private Data feature (Tools > Clear [...] [24 Jun 2009]
- Opera Unite: A server in your browser
- Opera has just launched a shot across the bow of other browsers with its new Unite feature. It’s a part of Opera 10, which is still in beta, but it could revolutionize the web, by turning every computer into a server. So what can you do with Unite? Several things, including: Share files, including photo downloading and [...] [17 Jun 2009]