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Fluid images [Unstoppable Robot Ninja]
Ethan Marcotte’s approach to fluid images with scripted IE-fix support.
css  design  development  images  browsers  mobile  screen  size 
november 2010 by adriancooke
Über-zombie cookies give us the fear [The Register]
John Leyden on the use of redundant cookie storage methods that make deleting cookies very difficult.
cookies  security  privacy  browsers 
september 2010 by adriancooke
CSS3 PIE: CSS3 decorations for IE
Converts certain CSS3 styling features (e.g. border radius) into instructions that IE6-8 can render.
browsers  css  css3  ie6  ie7  ie8 
july 2010 by adriancooke
Embed videos in your web pages using HTML5 [Webmonkey]
Scott Gilbertson HTML5 video embedding techniques that work in most browsers, with fallback to object/Flash.
html5  video  source  object  elements  h.264  flash  browsers  howto 
may 2010 by adriancooke
HTML5 input types [456 Berea Street]
Roger Johansson has made a test page for new HTML5 input element types. Mobile Safari, Safari and Opera are already recognising some of these.
forms  html5  ui  ux  browsers  elements 
april 2010 by adriancooke
Daring Fireball: Mozilla, Video, and Mobile Computing
John Gruber’s prediction on the future of video codecs is that H.264 will be the dominant encoding method and that Mozilla’s refusal to support it natively will render them less relevant, especially in the growing mobile space.
browsers  firefox  flash  html5  video  h.264 
march 2010 by adriancooke
HTML5 video tags in all major browsers
Dave Hall’s video element JavaScript for adding support to major browsers.
flash  html5  video  gpl  javascript  markup  browsers 
march 2010 by adriancooke
CSS3 please! - cross-browser CSS3 rule generator
Paul Irish and Jonathan Neal’s handy CSS3 rule-generator covering supported features in Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari.
css  css3  tool  utility  javascript  browsers  syntax 
march 2010 by adriancooke
SublimeVideo supports Firefox [Jilion Blog]
The next version of FF should equalize the functionality but for now it seems pretty close to WebKit.
browsers  video  html5  h.264  javascript 
february 2010 by adriancooke
WEFT-less [mezzoblue]
Dave Shea’s howto for using webfonts/font embedding with Internet Explorer, focussing on type conversion.
css  design  font  ie6  webfonts  howto  reference  browsers 
december 2009 by adriancooke
The sound of the accessible title text separator [Standards Schmandards]
Peter Krantz on how speaking browsers voice separator characters in web page title elements.
accessibility  browsers  user  agents  title  elements  voice 
october 2009 by adriancooke
Bulletproof @font-face syntax [Paul Irish]
Paul Irish on getting around browser quirks when embedding web fonts.
browsers  web  fonts  css  design 
september 2009 by adriancooke
SVGWeb bings SVG support to Internet Explorer [Rusty Brick]
News of a JavaScript include that looks for SVG rendering capability in the browser, and falls back to a Flash implementation called SVGWeb if native support for SVG is not detected. that means Internet Explorer—it falls back to Flash in IE. Google done that.
browsers  svg  markup  javascript  flash  google  ie6  ie7  ie8 
september 2009 by adriancooke
Firefox truncates long tables when printing [sides of march]
Brian DeMarzo notes a maddening and long-standing Firefox bug, along with a workaround. We found this still affects the latest versions of FF on Mac and PC (3.5.2 at time of writing).
accessibility  browsers  bugs  css  firefox  mozilla  print  tables 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Printing tables [css-discuss]
Jim Wilkinson’s tips on CSS rules for printing tables.
browsers  css  design  print  tables 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Gentium Basic by SIL International [Font Squirrel]
Free serif font in TrueType format. Used with @font-face on realtech.burningbird.net and loud.anotherquietday.com.
browsers  css  design  fonts  free  type 
august 2009 by adriancooke
Thoughts on Opera Unite [FactoryCity]
Chris Messina is highly skeptical about Opera Unite (especially the idea that it obviates central corporate servers—content is published on Opera’s proxy servers and URLs must be in the operaunite.com namespace), but he does like what it does with activity streams.
browsers  content  opera  personal  proxy  publishing  server  social 
june 2009 by adriancooke
Targeted advertising cookie opt-out (TACO) [Dubfire]
Christopher Soghoian’s Firefox plugin for opting out of around 40 web advertising networks including Microsoft’s, Google’s and Yahoo!’s.
advertising  browsers  cookies  firefox  plugin  privacy  tools 
june 2009 by adriancooke
Test of em, en, thin, and hair spaces [Joe Clark]
Joe Clark’s browser test page for various space characters.
browsers  standards  type  web 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Dinky pocketbooks with WebKit transforms [Natalie Downe]
Natalie Downe on a CSS3 technique for making printable web pages into a folding pocket book from a single sheet of paper. She calls them “PocketMods.” Supported in Safari only, as far as I know.
browsers  css  print  safari  tips  webkit 
may 2009 by adriancooke
QtWeb web browser
A new WebKit-based browser for Windows.
browsers  software  webkit  windows 
may 2009 by adriancooke
Putting IE6 out to pasture [the 200ok weblog]
Ben Buchanan on making the case against IE6 support. He outlines a graded approach to the problem, ranging from full support to actively telling your users to avoid IE6. The in-between options are worth thinking about where developer choice is limited.
browsers  business  ie6  support  development  standards 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Readability - An Arc90 lab experiment
Bookmarklet by Arc90 that hides the extra visual cruft on a blog or news article and presents the remaining text via a simple user stylesheet.
design  javascript  utility  usability  reading  browsers 
march 2009 by adriancooke
microsoft virtual pc tips [the 200ok weblog]
Ben Buchanan with tips on using Microsoft Virtual PC for front-end testing in multiple browsers.
browsers  microsoft  virtual  machine  tips  testing 
march 2009 by adriancooke
The Omni Group Releases Four Applications as Freeware
OmniWeb is now free, along with three other Omni utilities. Bargain.
browsers  apple  mac  osx  free  software 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Ask MAMA what the web is made of [iheni]
Henny Swan asks for ideas from the web community on data Opera's MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) can look for in it's next sweep of the web.
accessibility  analytics  browsers  data  metadata  research 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Feedback on 'WaSP Community CSS3 Feedback 2008' [Eric's Archived Thoughts]
Eric Meyer kicks off a four-part reaction to WaSP's call for community feedback on CSS3. He's adamant about the need for a new layout model for CSS. Interesting that he doesn't like the CSS tables approach one bit.
browsers  css  standards  specifications 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Structural Tags in HTML5 [Ordered List]
Steve Smith on using new HTML5 elements for structural markup on current pages. Requires some basic scripting to support IE.
development  browsers  markup  html5  tutorial  semantics 
february 2009 by adriancooke
How I Might Deal with IE6 [SimpleBits]
Dan Cederholm on graded browser support, and specifically our old friend.
design  development  css  browsers  ie6  graded  support 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Clickjacking [SecTheory]
Robert Hansen and Jeremiah Grossman explain clickjacking in detail.
browsers  information  security  javascript  iframe  clickjacking 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Firefox (In)Security Update Dynamics Exposed [Techzoom]
Stefan Frei, Thomas Dübendorfer and Bernhard Plattner on how strongly auto-update software usability impacts on browser patch rates.
design  browsers  security  ui  firefox  opera  patch 
february 2009 by adriancooke
That "Don't Click" Twitter virus thing [Scott Schiller]
Scott Schiller shows that the Twitter clickjack scam uses iframes to position a hidden link over the "Don't click" text—if you're logged in to Twitter when you click it, then your browser would generate a post on Twitter that propagates the message further.
browsers  information  security  twitter  iframe  clickjacking 
february 2009 by adriancooke

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