BurningbirdAll about web browsers
I haven’t been out to scripting.com for a long time, and was surprised to find Dave is not using https. Of course, the page I tried to access (on rebooting weblogging) triggered a warning in my browser. It triggers a warning in any browser, but some are more severe than others. There were issues with […]
I gather that Mozilla has named some marketing person as interim CEO as they search for a replacement who would be acceptableeffective. I don’t care, really. Mozilla is an organization that provides support for Firefox, a tool I use. I’m using Firefox because it is the browser that irritates me the least at this time. I […]
This morning I logged into Twitter, opened my HTML5 list, and started scrolling down the page to see what new outrage/toy/publication/conference was generating excitement today. Of course, I use “page” loosely, since Twitter uses the “continuous scrolling” technique to retrieve and display older tweets. You never actually get to the end of the page, you […]
Chrome released on Linux, and IE8 released from beta. Now people are beginning to question Firefox’s increasingly bigger piece of the blogger pie. Case in point, PC World. Mozilla have several grand aims, and there’s much to be admired, but they’ve forgotten how to make a decent browser. I feel plenty of loyalty for them, because […]
Congratulations to Safari/Webkit for being the first browser in the wild that provides a completely passing Acid3 test. My own results: [image no longer available] I’m really getting excited by how much The Big Three (Safari, Firefox, and Opera) are improving, not only in standards support, but also innovation and application speed. It’s as if the […]