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links for 2009-03-17
It Is Truly a Planet Facebook Facebook, which recently surpassed 175 million active users, has benefited from its growth in the overseas markets. There’s no denying that the company is growing at a breakneck speed across the planet. Yesterday, I met Ghassan Haddad, Facebook’s director of localization, and he shared some data that made me [...]
The hyper corrective browser
I just had a discussion via Twitter about the desired behavior of browsers during an endless javascript loop (e.g. while(true){alert(“test”);}). One of my friends suggested that browsers should correct this kind of code. Browsers should do this in order to prevent endless loops that crash you browser or your operating system. This really sounds horrible [...]
Acid3 and 4, why even bother?
Since a few days I am one of the bloggers on the Capgemini Technology blog Capping IT off. This is an excerpt of my first blogposting: If you are in some way involved in web development you might know the Acid tests. These tests check if and how well a web browser completes a certain [...]
Room for more
I think I should not add too much add-ons, otherwise I have to much icons: Suggestions for good add-ons for Firefox are welcome.
Silverlight just isn't
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Source Short response: no it is not. Extensive response: Silverlight could be a cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device plugin, however it is only available for Window and Mac and not [...]
innerHTML is not always what it looks like
For a nice tool I am currently creating I wanted to use innerHTML to give users the possibility to copy a piece of the page to a textarea. Well that should not give all that different results, since markup is markup and is not changed during rendering. That was what I thought, however not all [...]
This site is best viewed in….
Microsoft is just not getting it how to do pagerendering. Their idea now is an opt-in possibility with a meta tag: <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=8″ /> It remembers me about these horrible little buttons at the bottom of pages (this page is best viewed in…): Please stop version targeting, other browser vendors do not need to [...]
Browsers
Een browser doet wat je hem opdraagt, niet wat je wilt dat-ie doet.
IE8 passes Acid2
Awesome, so you’ll finally be standards complient when IE8 launches in 2012? Persoonlijk vond ik dat wel een briljante comment op het feit dat IE8 de Acid2 test gehaald had.
Bad turn
And then we’re back to the compatibility argument. “We may have done something that wasn’t really clearly specified in the specification. We need to change that in a browser release, but the behaviour we used to do is already out there. Once we do that in a new browser, we break a lot of content [...]
