Examples of CSS gradients are cropping up in the wild, and with good reason. CSS gradients: don’t require the additional HTTP request of an image file. are easier to modify than image files. “weigh less” than most image files. That’s the ideal, at least. In their current state, gradients are actually a hot mess. The [...]
[6 Apr 2011]
Running scripts in WebKit WebKit nightly builds now support the HTML5 async and defer script attributes. This makes it easier for web pages to load faster by downloading JavaScript without blocking other elements of the page. How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users Oh snap! Chrome comes out ahead in a recent [...]
[22 Sep 2010]
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 [...]
[4 Feb 2010]
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]
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 [...]
[15 Jul 2009]