BurningbirdAll about web browsers
I downloaded the first alpha of Shiretoko, or Firefox 3.1, and I’m delighted to see the text-shadow I have attached to my site name showing up in a Firefox browser. Not just text-shadow, Mozilla has also added JavaScript query selectors to this release, which means that we can query for all elements of a given class […]
In reply to the IEBlog web post that is asking people to apply for the right to submit a bug: Why, on earth, when other browser developers provide open and easy to use bug systems, would Microsoft limit itself in this way? I have a bug in Webkit, five minutes can help me determine if someone had already […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. O’Reilly Radar has a post with graphics related to the recent study of people using older, insecure browsers. At a glance we can easily see that most of the problem occurs with Internet Explorer, most likely IE6. If Wikipedia is correct, IE6 was released on August 27, 2001. Come this August 27th that makes this […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have this insanely perverse urge not to download Firefox until Wednesday. To get up in the dead of night, tip-toe to my machine and hit the download button when the date is safely the 18th; cackling in glee at the thought that I, I, am the sole hold out–the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Browsers have been generating a lot of buzz this week. Opera just released Opera 9.5, which I’ve already downloaded and installed on all of my machines. I’m also going to be downloading and trying out the new Dragonfly JavaScript debugger, since I’ll be covering it (and other JS tools) in the second edition […]