Mac Browsers and Non-Native UI
Jeff Atwood’s most recent post from Coding Horror has really hit the nail on the head in my mind. Non-Native UI Sucks Atwood’s article starts by pointing out that many Mac users prefer Safari to...
View ArticleBrowser Testing Sequence
Here is an interesting post on what one web developer does to test a site in all of the relevant browsers. Browser testing CSS and JavaScript I think that it’s a good general description of what...
View ArticleMac Users and Cross Platform Apps
About a month ago I blogged about my feelings on Mac browsers in Mac Browsers and Non-Native UI. My basic feeling was that the best browser that’s made for a Mac always wins. Firefox is a great...
View ArticleSafari for Windows
My first reaction when hearing that Safari was going to be available on Windows was one of pure excitement…and shock. Seriously, who guessed that one? As far as I’m concerned this is a very good thing...
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Font Rendering
Khaled Abou Alfa has a nice summary of how the font rendering looks on the different browsers (I believe this is all on Windows): Font Rendering The way that Firefox renders text on Windows is...
View ArticleMulti Safari
Apple has just released the 10.4.11 update for Mac OS X Tiger, which has two interesting tidbits. First of all, it lists “Improves compatibility when using OpenType fonts in QuarkExpress.” I would be...
View ArticleCSS Internet Explorer Bugs
The other day I ran in to a bug in IE 6 that I had never encountered before. I had a left-floated content box with a margin of 105px on the left. Everything worked fine in the good browsers as usual,...
View ArticleReadability Bookmarklet
Recently, since I can’t stand reading articles on websites with bad type and flashing articles everywhere, I’ve taken to actually saving the pages and writing some quick CSS rules to reformat the text...
View ArticleHtml5 & Css3 Readiness
Here is a very nice visualization of support for the different HTML5 and CSS3 properties among various browsers. The visualization allows you to also look at different years from 2008-2010 which gives...
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