BurningbirdAll about web browsers
The ACID3 race has begun. Coming around the first lap… Firefox 3 is in first place, with a comendable lead. Way to burn up the track, foxy! [image gone] Coming up from behind, we find the ACID crowd favorite, *Opera! [image gone] Winded, but still giving it all she’s got…Safari! (Is that a picture of a cat?) […]
I am beta testing Firefox 2 on one of my machines, and will be writing about the new JavaScript 1.7 in a post over at ScriptTeaser. One of the advantages to Firefox 2 is the spellchecker, which works with all text windows. It really is the way to go, rather than have to enable the […]
I recently upgraded my Dell laptop to Windows XP — the last upgrade for this particular computer until it needs to be turned into a pure Linux machine. As such, I could download the IE 7 beta. The very positive aspect of IE is the fact that PNG images actually work with this browser now, […]
Another new, or I should say heavily modified, feature I accidentally discovered with the RC 1.0 version of Firefox (I don’t think it was in the .9x releases) is the “Find in this Page” text search capability. Previously, the search function was a window that would open, you’d type in the phrase, and it would […]
In the golden age of the Internet, Netscape was the darling, the poster child for the Dot Com Boom. My first server-side development effort was based in Netscape’s LiveWire technology, which eventually went on to become the Netscape Application Server. My second book I wrote was on Netscape’s JavaScript. My interest in RDF started because […]