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 ...

The non-importance of !important

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Molly Holzschlag raised a good issue via Twitter yesterday regarding the !important rules in CSS, reprinted here in more or less the order in which her tweets appeared thus far: TwitterPoll: What does this mean to you? != TwitterPoll follow-up. What does this mean to you? !=good TwitterPoll: Let's remove the equal sign. ...

iPhone and mouse events

Friday, August 1st, 2008

PPK has written his impressions regarding his shiny brand-new Jesusphone. (I wonder did he get black or white?) In his post, he tells us the initial reports for the behavior of mobile Safari with regards to things like documentation (missing), mouse event implications (game changing), and how the disjunct state ...