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Entries Tagged as 'Safari'

The HTML5 video mess. See it today!

January 22nd, 2010 · View Comments · Web

Two giant video web sites are now running HTML5 video betas. This means that you can use their sites without having Flash active. Vimeo’s setup is especially impressive in that it very closely mimics the Flash experience.
If you don’t know what HTML5 video is, its an HTML video tag that will play video [...]

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IE hating has spread to government

January 19th, 2010 · View Comments · Web

There was news a few days back that Germany is now recommending that NO ONE use Internet Explorer anymore and that EVERYONE should switch to other browsers for security reasons. This was in response to the Chinese government hackers using IE flaws to hack into Google.
Now France is recommending the same thing.
Microsoft has protested, [...]

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Which browser is fastest?

June 26th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web

Depends on how you test fastest. Microsoft claims IE is the fastest browser. Everyone else, and I do mean EVERYONE else says it’s the slowest. So how do people test and how do they get the results they spout off?
Here’s the latest – http://www.codexon.com/posts/a-real-benchmark-real-websites-with-chrome-firefox-opera-safari-ie
This test is about rendering time. It doesn’t emphasize JavaScript, it shows [...]

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Getting Things Done on the Mac

March 31st, 2009 · View Comments · Mac

It seems like every Mac user is obsessed with productivity and Getting Things Done (GTD). As a result there is a plethora of tools to improve efficiency, track tasks and get your work accomplished. I’ve tried my fair share and have recently reached a steady state with my tools. Here’s an overview of what I’ve [...]

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Lies, damn lies and browser statistics

February 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Web

There’s been talk about Firefox surpassing IE usage.  This comes from statistics culled from w3schools.com.  w3schools.com is a web development portal and they’ve been tracking visitors to their site for the last five years.  January 2009 has Firefox surpassing all versions of IE, at 45.5% for Firefox and 44.8% for IE.  Unfortunately this fails to [...]

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Beyond Flash

January 8th, 2009 · View Comments · JavaScript, Web

Web standards guys hate Flash.  They want it to die.  They’ve always wanted it to die.  But Flash can do graphical things that have been either impossible to do with DHTML or could only be done poorly.  Microsoft hates Flash too.  That’s why they’ve built Silverlight.  But for web standards guys, that’s just another non-standard [...]

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JavaScript App Server Anyone?

September 19th, 2008 · View Comments · JavaScript

Round #4374 of the JavaScript performance wars has just been completed and the winner this round is SquirrelFish Extreme.  For those who aren’t “in the know”, here’s a quick recap.

Safari, Apple’s browser, is based on WebKit, the open source project headed by, yes, Apple.  The WebKit team is rewriting their JavaScript engine and has created [...]

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