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June 14th 2007
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Safari vs Firefox: benchmarking real-world performance

Apple have trumpeted Safari as "the fastest web browser on any platform" which is quite a bold claim. Considering that Apple has been in trouble for dubious performance claims of its products in the past, I was wondering how much weight their latest claim really had. In my previous post ...
June 12th 2007
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Apple’s cat amongst the pigeons - Safari for Windows

Today Apple has released a Windows build of their KHTML-based browser Safari. This is great for those of us who've been waiting for a Windows KHTML browser to test our sites with - I've already found one of my sites that uses AJAX that not only doesn't quite work ...
June 10th 2007
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Check your site on a phone/PDA - Opera Mini simulator

If you are designing a web page, its often easy to get carried away with whizzy design features and layouts that look great on your monitor, but often leave others frustrated with a pretty poor experience. I stumbled across a pretty neat java applet today that lets you try out any ...
May 21st 2007
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Viewing a list of a page’s files - not just for Safari

I was browsing Digg this afternoon and came across a post claiming Safari can download "ANY file from ANY website" which initially raised my eyebrow. It turns out that what the post really meant was there is an option in Safari to view all of the media and linked ...

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May 2nd 2008
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Safari annoys - again!

At work at the moment I'm testing the appearance of the site we are working on with Safari on Windows, with the current version we're using being 3.1.1.  We're also working pretty closely with XML and their schemas as part of the web development process. Happily working through my day as ...
April 11th 2008
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How I’d change Firefox 3

I've been running the betas for Firefox 3 for a little while now and - despite some problems with loosing my bookmarks - its been pretty good.  But there are some annoyances that have made themselves apparent with the current latest betas that I'd really want to change. Bring back the ...
March 22nd 2008
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Firefox 3 & setting CSS pixel values quirk

I was just doing some updates to one of my sites to fix some dynamic javascript problems that I'd discovered with the past couple of Firefox 3 betas.   A page I'd designed back in 2006 had a moving DIV that changed position as a result of a post back from ...
March 6th 2008
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Horror of Horrors … I lost my bookmarks!

... and my saved passwords and all my cookies and all my extensions!  You have to expect this kind of thing when you're trying out the beta versions of Firefox I suppose :)  Some of those bookmarks were ones I had all the way back from whilst I was at ...
February 24th 2008
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Picture Perfect - free & copyleft photos

Photos are a great way to get inspiration for making a site’s design, or indeed including the images in your design itself of course! Here are 5 of my favourite sites that have royalty free Creative Commons, Public Domain, copyleft etc licensed images for you to use: YotoPhoto.com YotoPhoto is probably ...

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