Archive for the 'Browsers' Category

Apple, Safari, Windows and a whole lot of confusion

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Before I start off, this isn’t a Mac vs. PC bash article. Nor is it a comparison between the two. I disclaim any statements about the superiority of each platform, since this will not be an article discussion these topics. That said, let’s move on to the topic of relevant interest. As any self-respecting web developer, […]

IE fixed, Opera is next

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

I’ve never liked Opera that much - have been trying to use it since version 7, but never got around to actually keep myself using it. I actually prefer IE7 over Opera 9 any given day of the week. Now, it seems, there’s yet another reason why I dislike Opera even more, but will have […]

Yet another grievous error on IE’s part (updated: float problem)

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

AJAX can be really useful sometimes. We all agree on that. We’ve pretty much solved the cross-browser divide when it comes to the XHR object by using libraries, but one thing still remains - what about the GUI? I know this might seem like just another post about using AJAX and fancy GUI updates, but let […]

RobotReplay, a usability testing tool

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

If you’ve ever asked yourself just why your web site or web app doesn’t perform as well as you’ve thought it would, since you’ve given a lot thought into the design of the page and user interface, then you might ask yourself - are you the proper person to be judging the design? In comes usability […]

Followup: Creating rich GUIs with Javascript in Symfony

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Well, I’ve written up a short summary of ideas relating to handling Javascript files in relation to requests, not it’s time to evaluate them. First thing I’ve noticed with the different ways of injecting Javascript into the response is the order by which the files are loaded, the problem being dependency. If you’re using a library […]

Using jQuery to manipulate a foreign DOM

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

This is somewhat of an old topic, but digging through a myriad of ways of including jQuery into a website that doesn’t use it (eg. Wordpress having Prototype and such), I stumbled upon a bookmarklet written by John Resig that loads jQuery into the current DOM and enables you to run an onload function that […]

A list of handy browser-specific CSS selectors

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Well, not exactly breaking front page news, but I thought I’d share this handy library of CSS selectors for targeting specific browsers: CSS Hacks

Fixing the column problem in IE6

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

I’ve just stumbled upon a bug in IE6 that doesn’t manifest itself in IE7, and it has to do with floated elements. I’ve used 4 floated columns to display 4 independent DIVs and floated them all left within a container DIV element. During development, I’ve been changing widths of the columns to get them aligned just […]