Webkit - and Safari in particular - have been really aggressive in adding support for upcoming CSS 3 features - and some CSS features not yet part of any spec. As much of this is still Webkit-specific it isn’t really…
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Back when Yahoo! released their YSlow add-on for Firebug, I took it for a spin and optimized biq.dk using it. Google recently released their variant of YSlow called Page Speed. Like YSlow, it’s an add-on for Firebug and it provides…
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It’s about time we kill the “www”. I don’t mean the World Wide Web, obviously, but the three letters that appear at the beginning of a plethora of website addresses. Seen from a human perspective they serve very little purpose…
According to the HTML 4 specification a definition list can be used to mark up dialogues. Mark Norman Francis objects to this, and in “his article on 24 ways” he goes on to claiming that using definition lists for anything…
This is a followup to my post about using YSlow to optimize websites with a warning. In that post I mention using mod_deflate to GZip encode all our text based content before delivering it to user agents supporting this. However,…
You know we’re sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn’t it? After launching the rewritten and redesigned BiQ I…
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Firefox 2.0 has been released. Go get it. Now. First impressions Subscribing to feeds Looks like subscribing to feeds got a whole lot friendlier. This is what it looks like for my feed: Sure beats the more or less raw…
I have published my report and findings on this subject . In his most recent Alertbox, Jakob Nielsen dived into screen resolution and page layout. His summarized findings are: Optimize Web pages for 1024×768, but use a liquid layout that…
mentalized.net Things are looking great for Firefox - at least on this page: BiQ.dk It looks a lot worse on a business-to-business website like BiQ, unfortunately. Such a shame….
It’s somewhere over here hidden by a hideous Flash animation. Microsoft have released a public beta of IE7. The homepage is a staggeringly fucking awful flash animation, promising “Everything you need, nothing you don’t, and a few things you have…
I’ve been sorely missing my Live HTTP Headers extension ever since upgrading to Firefox 1.5 rendered it unusable. Turns out there actually is a new version out which is compatible with Firefox 1.5 - something the extension upgrading system failed…
Firefox 1.5 is out and naturally I have to check it out. My initial impression is “whoa, it’s so much faster than the old version”. I have no hard numbers, but it would seem that render speed and general…
Congratulations, Safari and the Apple/Webkit team. Todays release of Mac OS X 10.4.3 contains a new version of Safari. Thius version contains the patches and updates necessary for making the browser pass the Acid2 test. Now we’re just waiting for…
I wish I knew how to make Firefox preserve the document history when opening a new tab, so I could use the back-button in the new tab….
I received an email today advertising Mozilla in a somewhat subtle way: The X-message-flag of the mail was set to You are using Outlook. May I recommend Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org)? In Outlook XP this results in Outook seemingly recommending me Mozilla:…
As you probably know, the Mozilla Firefox browser hit 1.0 yesterday and was released under high traffic-pressure and much attention. Some stuff written around the net: Post-release wrap up by Ben Goodger, Lead Engineer IEBlog uses Firefox to show why…
At some point my Firefox 0.9 stopped opening links in a new tab in an existing window and instead opens them in an entirely new window. I don’t recall exactly when this happened, but it has been a while now….
Scoble assures us that it is untrue that Microsoft doesn’t want to comply with the W3C standards. Dave Massy from the IE team calls it a myth that Microsoft doesn’t support standards. Still, the newest addition to Microsofts IE-marketing, the…
As noted, the IE team held a public, online Q&A session some time ago. Unfortunatly they have been pretty lax in getting the transcripts up (read: the transcripts haven’t been posted yet). Luckily I had a man on the inside…
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As noted, the IE team held a public, online Q&A session some time ago. Unfortunatly they have been pretty lax in getting the transcripts up (read: the transcripts haven’t been posted yet). Luckily I had a man on the inside…
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Could it be real? The impenetrable browser fortress, Firefox, has a security hole, gasp! Sarcasm aside, the hole has been plugged - a response time of less than day, I believe. Now, it could be argued (unreasonably) that this is…
This could be somewhat interesting: Windows XP Expert Zone Chat about Internet Explorer, today (Thursday, JUly 8th) at 10AM PST/19 CET. I don’t think I will be able to attend, but it could be interesting reading the transcript seeing if…
No?! How many more reasons do you need still?!…
So this weekend brought us Thunderbird 0.5 and Firebird 0.8 - Oops, I mean Fire_fox_ 0.8. Yup, that’s right, once again a new name (and a nice new logo). So in the future, when referring to Firefox on this website,…
I’ve had the pleasure of working on a part of our website that my boss was acceptance testing We had a session today at work where my boss was acceptance testing part of our website while I was working on…
Uninstalling the Tabbrowser Extension from Firebird gave me a popup with the following message: Unregistration succeed. Please close the browser, and remove the following file: “C:\Documents and Settings\Jakob\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default\hqway7db.slt\chrome\tabextentions.jar” First of all, I shouldn’t have to close my browser for…
Today is a good Firebird day. A fancy new Firebird icon and a Mozilla tip that’ll make my daily RSS reading so much more comfortable. Aah….
I wonder if Microsofts businessplan for Internet Explorer looks like this: Create a browser which is the most lax (some would say wrong) in it’s interpretation of standards. Bundle it for free with the most widespread desktop OS on the…
Or “Why forcing links into a new window is bad” I realize the topic of opening links in new windows has been covered countless times, but the dead horse has shown its ugly head and I am intent on beating…
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I seem to have messed something up with my installation of Phoenix. On some sites I can’t POST data. Notably IMDb and EZBoards just load and load and end up returning a popup with “The document contains no data” when…
Dear Bill, if I could have 2 wishes granted for christmas, I would like to have the following features added to Internet Explorer: Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 The CSS level 2 recommendation is dated 12th of May, 1998. It…
Some time ago when Netscape finally released a preview of their coming version 7 browser, I decided to at least give it a shot. After all I am an old Netscape hangaround from back when websites were “Best seen with…