Search Results for: Safari

The Readable Future: I’ve noticed a big trend in this direction.  I think it’s a natural backlash against invasive advertising. The ability to read uncluttered web pages is going mainstream. I made the point recently that technical people can avoid, or at least cut down on, ads, sharing buttons, and clutter when reading web pages [...]

Are Internet Explorer users dumb?: There are no words for how many jokes exist here. The survey by AptiQuant, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the test. The result? Internet Explorer users scored lower than average, while Chrome, Firefox and [...]

steipete/stackoverflowerizer – GitHub: I get really frustrated with sites that just copy data from other, better sites verbatim.  I love the Creative Commons and all, but I get a little annoyed with sites that just exist to exactly republish great content from Wikipedia and StackOverflow and profit from ads displayed with it.  (Is the irony [...]

New Features in SharePoint 2010 : Microsoft has dropped IE6 support in Sharepoint – it’s own CMS and, many would say, its flagship product. SharePoint 2010 supports an extended set of browsers. It’s designed to support XHTML 1.0–compliant browsers and will support Internet Explorer (IE) 8.0 and IE 7.0, Firefox, and Safari. Notably, IE 6.0 [...]

Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation: This should make writing Firefox extensions even easier. […] Jetpack is an API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using the web technologies you already know. Jetpack will be an exploration in using Web technologies to enhance the browser (e.g. HTML, CSS and Javascript), with the goal of allowing [...]

Put Your Content in My Pocket: Doesn’t everything just look naturally good on an iPhone? Macs just make everything prettier by default…right? So what does this mean for you? Millions of visitors accessing your content on a small display with very high resolution. At some point in the near future, you’re going to want to [...]

Tipping the Microsoft Cash Cow Could Be Adobe’s Next Move: Apple users will flock to this like they flocked to Safari for two reasons: (1) it’s a chance to screw Microsoft, and (2) anything that sets them apart from the unwashed masses is, by definition, better. […] the stage is set for Adobe to flex [...]

About four months ago, I asked you all to send me a screencap of the Gadgetopia home page sitting in your browser window. I promised to do some analysis of the results, and I kept meaning to get to it, but never got to it. Tonight, I finally sat down and analyzed what people had [...]

O’Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf: This is part of Safari Online, of which I’m a member and big fan. Sometimes you just can’t wait for the book. When you need to learn a new technology right now, turn to the Rough Cuts service from Safari Books Online. You’ll get early access to books on cutting-edge technologies-you [...]

Subversion and micro-ISVs: This is a good little article on Subversion and how wicked good it is. We use it. The solution is Subversion. I promise you that Subversion will change your life. It is free, open source, has a wonderful Windows client called TortoiseSVN, and uses unique numbers, incremented one by one, just like [...]