Posts in the "Web browsers" Category
Published on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Firefox 3.5 was released yesterday, and it has already reached 5 and a half million of downloads (at the time of writing). Therefore, I thought I’d answer some common questions, especially from a web developer perspective about the new version and which web developer extensions which will work with it.
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Published on Thursday, June 25th, 2009
You have probably seen this elsewhere on the web, read me go on about it on Twitter, or something, but I thought I’d go through what I find to be some weird and provoking marketing strategies from Microsoft recently.
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Published on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Last week, Opera launched an alpha release of Opera Unite. My idea here here is to write an unbiased post about it, to answer some the most common questions and queries.
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Published on Thursday, June 18th, 2009
With the impending release of Firefox 3.5, I thought I’d cover the new things in JavaScript 1.8.1 - part of that is the very exciting support for native JSON, and you know what? They’re not the only ones supporting it!
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Published on Monday, June 15th, 2009
Microsoft, in a surprise move, have decided to ship Windows 7 in Europe without any web browser at all.
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Published on Thursday, June 11th, 2009
A little while ago, Apple released Safari 4. While it’s a very competent and fast web browser, there’s something seriously wrong with it: on a Mac, it can’t be uninstalled.
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Published on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Saving state or values have never been easy on the web, especially on the client-side, and using cookies have been far from ideal. Enter DOM/Web Storage!
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Published on Friday, June 5th, 2009
Yesterday we had Geek Meet Charity in Stockholm, and in my opinion, it was a great success!
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Published on Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Not many people know it, but you can use “real” getters and setters in JavaScript if you want to.
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Published on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
In my day job (i.e. the one paying the bills), I encountered a very serious problem in Internet Explorer, which turned out to be a show-stopper in my current project.
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Published on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
End of May/beginning of June will be very busy for me indeed. There will be a number of speaking engagements for me, and I’d like you to know about another one: Mozilla/Maemo Danish Weekend.
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Published on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
I am very happy to say that an idea I’ve had for a while has finally been implemented: Firefinder for Firebug.
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Published on Monday, May 11th, 2009
Over time, lots of people have developed the need to run web applications/sites in a stand-alone manner, and many major player try and cater to that.
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Published on Thursday, May 7th, 2009
I’m am so tired of the never-ending misunderstanding of the alt attribute versus the title attribute.
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Published on Friday, April 3rd, 2009
One of the more interesting places to look for new things are Mozilla Labs, and it’s refreshing to see how they think outside the box to create future features and usage ideas.
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Published on Friday, March 20th, 2009
I was a bit hesitant whether I should write about this or not, but hey, I’m all about openness, so here goes…
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Published on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
About a couple of weeks ago, I was approached by a Mozilla employee suggesting I talk at one of their events.
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Published on Monday, February 16th, 2009
IE8 Blacklist: forcing standards rendering opt-in.
What! The! Fuck!
Published on Monday, February 9th, 2009
This proposal might seem a bit drastic, but please allow me to present my case.
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Published on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Yesterday, IE 7, once again, pushed me to the brink of going postal. Refusing to give up, I finally managed to find the problem.
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Published on Monday, January 26th, 2009
I haven’t worked with Visual Studio and .NET for a while, but in my current project that’s the platform. I downloaded a necessary update, and as it turned out, Microsoft hit a new low…
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Published on Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Admit that you have always wanted to know how to develop a Firefox extension but never had the time to learn. 
Here I will walk you through and at the end of the article we will have created a fully functional Firefox extension!
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Published on Monday, January 19th, 2009
Ever felt that you have had the need to enhance your web browser, or the functionality of some web site you frequently visit? Here I will explain how to do that.
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Published on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
The end of 2008 is near, and I felt it was time to summarize the passed year.
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Published on Friday, November 21st, 2008
Something was brought to my attention which, to say the least, left me a little baffled: IE 6 is coming to mobile phones…
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Published on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Something which have troubled web developers for a long long time is the proprietary event handling implementation in Internet Explorer. In IE 8, this really has to go.
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Published on Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Since everyone and his mother is beating down on Internet Explorer, I thought I’d express things from IE’s own perspective:
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Published on Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Personally, I like opacity when it is used well in a web site. And instead of some static images, I prefer, when possible, that it is achieved through CSS.
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Published on Thursday, September 11th, 2008
One browser to rule them all, one Google to find them, one extension to bring them all, and in the darkness (Redmond?) bind them.
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Published on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The web is buzzing! Something which was due to come, sooner or later, has happened. Google is launching their own web browser today: Google Chrome.
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Published on Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I’m back.
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Published on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Two and a half years ago, I released the first version of getElementsByClassName. With how web browsers has evolved since, I thought I’d release a real ultimate version, dated 2008.
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Published on Monday, May 26th, 2008
A feature most people don’t seem to know about is conditional compilation in Internet Explorer web browsers.
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Published on Friday, April 11th, 2008
When developing JavaScript, performance is one of the vital things. Therefore, I thought I’d share the performance of loops with JavaScript, and give some advice.
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Published on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
When I read the news this morning, it blew my mind! Microsoft will use the Gecko layout engine for IE 8.
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Published on Monday, March 31st, 2008
First out was Opera, and then WebKit (which Safari and some other web browsers are based on), to pass the Acid3 test.
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Published on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Looking at the upcoming releases of different web browsers I started to wonder whether specifying fonts in relative units, such as ems etc, will be a common approach in the future.
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Published on Thursday, March 13th, 2008
As you all know, form elements aren’t that easy to style, especially not consistently. At a first glance, the button element seems like a sure winner, but once you delve into it…
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Published on Monday, March 10th, 2008
A number of exciting things have been going on in the DOMAssistant camp, so I thought I’d fill you in with some of the latest. We’re talking plugins, developer tools and taking a glimpse into the future.
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Published on Friday, March 7th, 2008
For those of you who have missed it, IE 8 beta is now available for download. Let’s take a quick look on what’s in it.
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Published on Thursday, March 6th, 2008
I am, hypothetically ( ) working on an e-commerce site, and the other day I discovered that IE doesn’t post all values with a form.
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Published on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
As reported all over Internet, Microsoft has completely turned around regarding their initial Standards Mode approach in the upcoming IE 8.
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Published on Monday, February 25th, 2008
A topic that just can’t be discussed enough is Microsoft and how some of their decisions affect us Web Developers, end users and, consequently, the entire world.
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Published on Friday, February 15th, 2008
For me and a lot of other people I’ve been talking to, the latest release of Firefox haven’t really been delivering.
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Published on Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Ever had the problems with width set in percentage, and every web browser seem to treat it differently? Elements falling down in IE, ruining your layout? I sure have, and John Resig explains how it really works.
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Published on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
There’s a fire spreading over the Internet right now, and it’s about the new Microsoft idea with version targeting in their new IE 8 web browser.
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Published on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
We all know that Internet Explorer hasn’t been the best of the bunch rendering CSS properly, and while IE 7 got better, it’s far from perfect. I have an example here where I can’t make links (appear) clickable, no matter what.
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Published on Saturday, December 29th, 2007
The year 2007 has come to an end, or rather, it very soon has. I thought I’d write a summary of what happened me as well as on the web during 2007, to have a closure for the year that has passed.
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Published on Friday, December 14th, 2007
Opera brings Microsoft and Internet Explorer in front of the European Commission with an antitrust complaint.
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Published on Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Since the CSS support in Internet Explorer, especially in versions prior to Internet Explorer 7, has been lagging quite substantially, clever web developers have started using CSS expressions to mimic CSS functionality. However, few realize how this affects performance.
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