Posts in: Browsers
- 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]
- Microsoft licenses patent from Eolas
- With any luck you will soon be able to chuck SWFObject* and go back using embed and object to include Flash movies in your documents. Microsoft has licensed the patent it was found liable of infringing upon. This means that Internet Explorer will soon handle ActiveX content (Flash, QuickTime, etc.) the way it did before [...] [11 Dec 2007]
- ies4linux: Now with Mac support!
- I’ve mentioned ies4Linux before, as well as a round-about way to get it running on your Mac OS X machine. Well, first Mike Kronenberg cut out a few steps and released ies4osx. Then Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior added those changes into the latest version of ies4linux. This isn’t yet a one-step operation. You will [...] [6 Dec 2007]
- Buzzword.com: Flash-based online word processor
- It’s old news that web-based word processing applications are sprouting up all over the web. There’s Google Docs, Zoho Writer, ThinkFree and gOffice among others. View larger version One of the most recent entrants to this fairly crowded field, is Buzzword by Virtual Ubiquity, which was recently acquired by Adobe. I tested Buzzword using Firefox 2.0.0.10 and Camino [...] [29 Nov 2007]
- Mozilla is readying for the mobile web
- Sure the iPhone has its spiffy little web browser / SDK (Safari), but that mean bupkiss for the rest of us. What can we do? That’s where Mozilla comes in. Via Ajaxian: Mike Schroepfer’s post Mozilla and Mobile. According to Schroepfer: Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2. This means we [...] [10 Oct 2007]
- Using Amazon S3 for hard drive backups
- After reading Baratunde’s heart-wrenching post about losing an entire terabyte of data, including recordings of his late mother, I decided it was time for me to investigate some backup solutions. I half-assedly make DVD backups of my blog data and important files. But that stuff changes so frequently that a DVD system is really inadequate. An [...] [17 Sep 2007]
- My new favorite Firefox extensions
- Four groovy picks to enhance your Firefox experience. Pearl Crescent Page Saver ScreenGrab! Save PNG screen captures of any page loaded in your browser window. Capture a page, a window, or a selection. Gmail Manager Not to be confused with GMail Notifier, Gmail Manager allows you to check multiple accounts for new messages, and provides a preview of [...] [9 Aug 2007]
- Open thread: Conditional comments: Yay or Nay?
- I’m a big fan of conditional comments. I agree with Jens Meiert that they are non-standard, and don’t adequately separate content and presentation. However, I think they’re the best option we’ve got for one huge reason: it is the only reliable workaround for Internet Explorer that does not also affect other browsers. The LitePacific hack [...] [29 Jun 2007]
