Waxing Firefox, Waning IE

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

IE continues it's downward spiral as the browser dips below 69% at the expense of Firefox and the WebKit-powered duo of Apple Safari and Google Chrome. The breakdown as paraphrased by TG Daily: Net Applications released updated global browser market share numbers today, indicating that IE is losing users at an ...

The madness of screens vs. browsers on the mobile web

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

This evening as I was doing some research on mobile web development, I got myself on a tear about the wild differences we face as web developers regarding screen sizes and default browser installations, and came up with this: MakeModelResolutionDefault Browser Engine* AmazonKindle600 x 800NetFront AppleiPhone480 x 320WebKit AppleiPod Touch480 x 320WebKit BenQM315128 x 128Opera HTCG1320 ...

The woes of CSS color in print typography

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

As I was working through some documentation on styling CSS for print recently, I came across an oddity. Colors that I was specifying in my print styles were not getting represented properly at print time. Specify a nice shade of gray for some text? Maybe want to ghost print something ...

Browser Joy

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Downloaded Firefox Three Point Oh this evening and I must say I'm impressed. Last check was a few beta revisions ago, and this is much improved in the one area I am most concerned with: stability. I have been running it all evening and she's been perfectly stable so far. PPK ...

Flock

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Thanks to @mrsnap and @bikracer for turning me on to Flock. It seems to like my favorite web developer extensions, namely the Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug, and the social network features are a bonus. I was getting bummed out by Firefox's incessant crashing, and this browser seems faster, more ...