Tag Archives | browser

QN: Cross-Browser CSS Coding Tips

By on January 7, 2011 in Technology

Smashing Mag has an absolutely excellent article on the most important aspects of CSS (box model, floats, inline vs block, etc.) as well as the cross-browser compatibility issues. The presentation is straight forward, well diagramed and really easy to digest. If you are a web developer, even if you are decent with CSS, give it [...]

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Dead Easy Image and File Sharing with Drag and Drop onto Your Browser

By on December 28, 2010 in Technology

drag2up is a Chrome and Firefox addon that allows you to drag and drop files onto any text field in your browser window at which point drag2up uploads those files to image or file-sharing services in the background and then instantly inserts URLs into the text-field for you. Example Usage Let’s say I want to [...]

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Funny Opera Browser Speed Test

By on May 28, 2010 in Humor & Fun, Technology

I suppose Google put together a Rube-Goldberg “speed test” of the Chrome browser and Opera decided to 1-up them with what I found a hugely entertaining and funny “Opera Browser vs a Potato” speed test video. A lot of what I found to be gold about this video was that it’s more like an SNL [...]

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iPhone's Share of Mobile Web Users Is Absurd

By on February 10, 2010 in Technology

Clicky is one of the best and most popular click-tracking services out there. I prefer it to Google Analytics and I know a lot of other folks do as well. One of the things that Clicky does that is pretty fun to peek at every once in a while is compile reports on general browsing [...]

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HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues

By on July 23, 2009 in Technology

Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that [...]

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Google's Chrome Browser Process Model Explained

By on September 5, 2008 in Programming

Marc Chung has posted an in-depth analysis of Google’sChrome Browser process model. Why this is interesting is because the new process model in Chrome is one of the most powerful aspects of the browser, allowing it to render JavaScript-heavy web applications much faster without blocking the entire browser process hung in a render loop (something [...]

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Stop Your iPhone Browser From Forgetting Cookies

By on June 26, 2008 in Technology

Do you have a JailBroken iPhone and it drives you bat-shit that every single time you open Safari on the iPhone to browser to your favorite site, check your email, load up Google Reader, etc. you have to re-login and it doesn’t seem to remember your cookies from particular sites? Well iRemember is here to [...]

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Firefox 3 Beta 2 Impressions: Awesome

By on December 20, 2007 in Technology

ZDNet gave their impressions of the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 2 release and so far the comments are suggest the same thing: The memory and performance enhancements are awesome. Word on the street is that it’s snappy as hell, uses anywhere from 1/2 to 1/4 the memory Firefox 2 used, and is overall looking [...]

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Memory Usage: Firefox 2 vs Firefox 3

By on November 21, 2007 in Technology

We’ve covered some very interesting articles in the past about some of the work going into improving the memory usage of Firefox 3 as Firefox 2 is currently a fat pig. Well it looks like Adrian over at ZDNet took the new Firefox 3 Beta 1 release out for a test drive with some relatively [...]

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Sun Rewrites Java Plugin

By on October 18, 2007 in Programming

Grant Gochnauer sent in this kick-ass news; looks like Sun has completely rewritten the Java Browser Plugin as part of the new Consumer JRE work (now called Update N or something). The changes include: Improved scripting support (java/javascript integration is better) Improved reliability Supports more powerful applets (applets can ask for more memory) Better windows [...]

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