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FireFox Web BrowserIE 7 and Google Maps :: A Quick Fix
Posted on :: Aug 3
I was fixing a Google Map at my job, when it was reported by one of our Clients, that the Google Map was 'Broken'. The client reported that the map was only half-displaying.
I opened up Safari, Firefox and Chrome and everything seemed to work fine. That’s when I realized I forgot to test the site in IE.
Firefox 3.6.4 - Now featuring "out-of-process plugins"
Posted on :: Jun 23
Mozilla yesterday released Firefox 3.6.4, and on top of the usual bug fixes and security patches this new version contains an interesting feature - “out-of-process plugins” (OOPP).
What is OOPP?
Flash, PDF zero-day attacks
Posted on :: Jun 7
Adobe issued an alert late Friday night to warn about zero-day attacks against an unpatched vulnerability in its Reader and Flash Player software products.
The vulnerability, described as critical, affects Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems. It also affects the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems, Adobe said.
Finally, the End for IE 6
Posted on :: Jun 3
The most recent data from analytics firm StatCounter indicates that Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft’s outdated but resilient Web browser, may finally be on the way out.
Firefox 3.7, Will it be a Reality or Strictly work in practice?
Posted on :: Mar 12
Just because Mozilla released Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1, there’s no guarantee that version 3.7 will ever come to fruition. Fact is that the "Developer Preview" label has been slapped on the release because Mozilla simply hasn’t determined yet as where this version of the open source browser fits into the Firefox product roadmap.
Mozilla: Firefox Mobile Will Solve Content Problems
Posted on :: Dec 18
Native apps for pushing Web content are as old as smartphones, but Web apps are now exploding. Mozilla hopes Firefox Mobile will help smaller innovators.
Jay Sullivan, vice president of mobile at Mozilla, recently told PC Pro that the Firefox Mobile browser on Nokia's N900 will be released for Android and Windows Mobile next year. With improved Javascript engines, Mozilla hopes that mobile content developers will return to the Web and mobile browsers for delivering mobile content, rather than re-packaging it in multiple Web apps across a range of different mobile platforms.Mozilla: The "the web will win" over app stores
Posted on :: Dec 18
Mozilla believes that its new Firefox Mobile browser could wean developers away from developing for platform-specific app stores and onto developing cross-platform apps powered by JavaScript and HTML.
Mozilla is starting to take mobile seriously. It is set to release the first version of Firefox Mobile (codenamed Fennec) on Nokia’s N900 handset shortly, with versions for Windows Mobile and Android due to hit handsets next year.
The 4C’s of Web Failure
Posted on :: Dec 8
Website design and development are highly technical fields. But even the most seasoned professionals can sometimes completely miss the mark, creating sites that fail to fulfill their value-generating promise. And, more often than not, this failure is caused by a lack of low-tech strategic thinking and analysis.
In a rush to launch sites, we can forget to examine four foundational topics: culture, customers, cost, and complexity. When poorly managed, any one of these can become the root cause of Web failure.
In this two-part series, we will examine the 4 C’s of Web failure and how to avoid them to improve your chances of seeing a positive return on your Web development investments.Designing Your Site for IE & Firefox
Posted on :: Nov 20
Hiding Styles from IE 6
It's actually really easy to hide styles from IE 6 but make them visible to standards compliant browsers. Use child selectors.
In one design I built, I created a two column layout that required margins and padding. This meant that I was hitting the box model differences when I viewed the page in IE 6. My first CSS style sheet for Firefox included a line like this:
div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }
This made the page line up perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but in IE the nav column was pushed over to the right too far.
So, I converted the line to use child selectors. The #nav div is a child of the body tag, so I changed the line to read:
body > div#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 20px; }
Of course, doing this made the #nav div lose all it's properties in IE, so I needed to add in some IE styles to get IE 6 looking okay. I added this line to the CSS:
#nav { width: 150px; margin-left: 10px; }
The placement of this line of CSS is important if my page is still to look good in Firefox and Safari. The IE line needs to come first. Firefox and Safari will read that line and then it will be over-ridden by the body > div#nav selector lower in the document. IE 6 will read the first line and set the styles. It will then ignore the child selector, as it doesn't recognize them. When IE 7 comes along, it will act like Firefox and Safari.
By designing for a standards-compliant browser first, and then modifying your CSS to support IE's quirks, you spend a lot less time fiddling with the design and a lot more time actually designing.
Browser Labs
Posted on :: Nov 18
A wonderful co-worker had intriduced me to this excellent tool online for assisting me in assuring that a site we're building renders properly in Internet Explorer, It's called BrowserLab.
BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web.
Browser wars? The enterprise still loves IE6
Posted on :: May 1
This news may come as a shocker to the tech savvy folks in the house, but 60 percent of companies use Internet Explorer 6 as their default browser, according to Forrester Research. Meanwhile, your IT department spends a decent amount of time erecting barriers to prevent browser upgrades. Bottom line: Companies need a browser policy or they will risk productivity losses.