Browsers
New and updated Web browsers are released frequently, and I try to keep track of them all. This category contains articles that mention browser news, features, bugs, plug-ins, extensions, bookmarklets, and similar.
What does Acid3 mean to you and me?
Opera and Apple have announced that their web browsers pass the Acid3 Browser Test, but how will that help web designers and developers?
First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
My impressions after trying out Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for a couple of days.
Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default
Microsoft has reversed its position on how standards mode will be triggered in IE8, and has chosen to make interoperability more important that pandering to broken intranets.
Doctype switching for IE 8
Version targeting as it has been presented is an incredibly bad idea to force upon the minority of people in the web industry who have a clue.
Beware of id and name attribute mixups when using getElementById in Internet Explorer
When using getElementById to get a reference to an element via the id attribute, IE may return an element whose name attribute contains the value you’re matching.
Standards mode is the new quirks mode
Because of their immense fear of making broken websites that should be fixed look broken in Internet Explorer, Microsoft will make standards-aware developers jump through hoops.
Internet Explorer 8 announced, passes the Acid2 test
The next version of Internet Explorer will be called IE 8, and passed the Acid2 test, meaning it has support for much wanted CSS features.
Keep browser lock-out a thing of the past
Browser sniffing and deliberately preventing people using a so-called unsupported browser from entering a site is a thing from the past that we do not need these days.
The W3C process may be slow, but browser vendors are slower
Don’t blame the W3C for being slow when the real problem is browser vendors not implementing existing specifications fully and properly.
CSS diagnostics with XRAY and MRI
John Allsopp has written a couple of handy bookmarklets that help you troubleshoot CSS without having to install a browser extension.
Mac OS X Web browser rundown 2007
A rundown of the Mac OS X Web browsers that occupy space on my hard drive in late 2007.
The resurrection of downloadable Web fonts
Downloadable fonts in TrueType format are now supported by nightly builds of Apple WebKit. Will it catch on this time around?
NoSquint allows site-specific text zoom
A Firefox extension that remembers your text zoom level per site. Anyone know of a Safari alternative?
Scrap text resize widgets and teach people how to resize text
Instead of wasting time and resources on building JavaScript widgets that resize the text on your site, teach people how to resize text in their browser.
Mobile Web Design (Book review)
Cameron Moll explains how to design and develop websites for the incredible amount of people accessing the Web from their mobile phones.
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Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
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