Tiffany B. Brown

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Posts in: Opera

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 [...] [17 Jun 2009]
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 [...] [3 Mar 2008]
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 [...] [14 Dec 2007]
Links for September 19 and 20, 2006
The IE7 User-Agent String Must-have information for user-agent string parsing and content serving. IE7 still supports conditional comments, which you can use to serve a different style sheet to older versions of Internet Explorer. Boing Boing Boing BoingBoing’s new Odeo-powered podcast. Pew Internet Project Bloggers Report – July 2006 [PDF] I missed this the first [...] [19 Sep 2006]