Category: Web Developing

Weekly Browsers Recap, April 14th

By | April 14, 2009 | 1 Comment

Some great articles over the last week.

Site Compatibility and Internet Explorer 8

By | March 17, 2009 | 0 Comments

Quite informative post has been published recently on IE’s Blog which includes some of the IE7 and IE8 compatibility differences/issues as well as solutions on how to fix them.

Firebug 1.3.2 Released

By | February 8, 2009 | 0 Comments

One of the best debugging tools for web developers has received an update.

This version includes fixes for the Firebug’s activation, several fixes for the command line, as well as file locking and net panel fixes.

Download Firebug 1.3.2

Internet Explorer Relative Position Resize Bug Fix

By | January 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

Here is a quick solution in case you are experiencing the same issue as I did today.

When using div with position:relative, it becomes fixed during window resize in the Internet Explorer.

There is an easy fix. Just add position:relative to css body element and you’re done.

Site Compatibility or Browser Compatibility

By | January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment

It has been a big debate whether websites are not compatible with browsers or browsers are not compatible with websites. While webmasters and web developers claim that a certain browser is not compatible with their website, browser companies fight back saying that the websites are indeed not compatible with the browser and sometimes have even been proved. Continue Reading

Firebug 1.3 Released

By | January 8, 2009 | 0 Comments

The final version of Firebug 1.3 has been released and can be downloaded via addons.mozilla.org

The following version won’t work with Firefox 3.1. However, the upcoming Firebug 1.4 alpha release will fix that.

For the changelog, please check release notes here.

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Conditional CSS

By | December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

Have you ever spent hours or even days coding your web site, just because one of the web browsers displayed it not in the way you wanted to?

Well… Forget this!

Conditional CSS addresses this issue by letting you add web browsers style conditions inline with your CSS statements. For example:
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Can Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Win This Battle?

By | November 16, 2008 | 10 Comments

While Internet Explorer 7 had only one good feature (are you curious now?), the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is slowly becoming a real web browser. But is it enough?

Standards Support

Web developers doomed IE7. Hours of wasted time, checking… Yes, it still breaks a web. Let’s do more coding… It took a while for Microsoft to realize that it’s a good thing for any web browser to support web standards. Internet Explorer 8 is their 1st correct step in building friendly relationships with web developers. Hope it will not break the web (again). Continue Reading

Opera 10 to Fully Support SVG

By | November 7, 2008 | 3 Comments

In the “Opera China and Web Standards” conversation, the following information was revealed:

“Our CTO, Håkon Wium Lie, is the co-founder of CSS, and we are the first browser to fully support SVG”

What is SVG?

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a new graphics file format and Web development language based on XML. Continue Reading

Safari Web Inspector Redesign

By | October 4, 2008 | 1 Comment

Safari Web Inspector RedesignAs it turns out, few days ago Web Inspector has received a redesign as well as some improvements under the hood.

Few changes which I’d like to quote:

First and foremost, the Web Inspector is now sporting a new design that organizes information into task-oriented groups — represented by icons in the toolbar. Continue Reading