It’s a simple and brilliant concept. Get people to install a plugin on internet explorer, add a meta tag to your source code, then Google Chrome Frame will render the page using Webkit and its Javascript engine instead. It sounds like it could save the internet. But will it work?
What is a browser?
Google went to Times Square in New York and posed (what we believe to be) a simple question – What is a browser? The answers were quite interesting – some people had no clue; others were painfully close, it just seemed like they didn’t have the right words to explain what they meant. Either way, it’s an interesting watch, and goes to show that what we take for granted isn’t always common knowledge.
CSS Naked Day
What a bloomin’ marvellous idea. On CSS naked day (9th April this year), you might notice a lot of websites loose thier styling. It’s the brain child of Dustin Diaz, and it’s aim is to help us all to write more semantic (X)HTML. By considering the design with no CSS, it forces us to write better and better structured markup. Will you be joining in this year?
RefreshYourCache.com
Isn’t it annoying when you make an update to a site, but your client is absolutely convinced that you haven’t done anything because their browser simply refuses to reload that image/javascript/css file? Then of course there’s the trying to get them to tell you which browser they’re using so that you can advise them on how to clear the cache. RefreshYourCache.com will save you a lot of frustration and ripping your hair out. It even detects the browser and shows an easy to follow step-by-step guide. Now THAT’S what I’m talking about.
Introducing Opera Face Gestures
Opera announced today that they will be introducing face gestures into future releases of their browser to help speed up browsing. It was around 8 years ago that they introduced mouse gestures, and once again it looks like they will be revolutionising the market. Although judging by the date and time of the announcement, I wouldn’t get too excited about seeing this feature any time soon ;)
IE Death March
So today I dropped support for IE6. Infact, if you’re using IE6, you won’t even see this post, you’ll see a blue screen of death. IE Death March is (I think) a brilliant idea and please help me and many others to start an internet revolution.
10 fixes that solve IE6 problems
As you may know, I’m a big fan of not using CSS hacks. They clutter up your stylesheets making them unreadable and very hard to maintain. This article from sitepoint explains how to nudge (surprise surprise) IE6 into displaying your pages correctly without having to use hacks or IE specific stylesheets. Definitely worth a read.
15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues
As the title suggests, this page has links to 15 jQuery plugins to help out with cross-browser issues. Including rounded corners in our friend Internet Explorer, avoiding CSS hacks (which is something close to my heart) and vertically centreing elements.
