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Opera’s Evangelism
Opera is said to be sending evangelism emails to websites that have compatibility problems with their browser. What’s interesting is that they are customizing the emails with actual fixes for the...
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No Opera For iPhone
I’m not to thrilled to read this: Mr. von Tetzchner said that Opera’s engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won’t let the company release it...
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MAMA Scripting Analysis
Opera did some interesting research into JavaScript used on the web. As someone who writes a fair amount of JavaScript and reads through countless lines of other people’s scripts, I found this to be...
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Microsoft Cutting Back On IE?
Asa pointed out an interesting CNBC piece regarding cutbacks in what looks like contractors on the IE team: One of the units already seeing cutbacks is Microsoft’s sagging browser business. A report in...
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Debating Ogg Theora and H.264
Since the big HTML 5 news that there will be no defined codec for <audio/> or <video/> there has been a lot of discussion about the merits of such a decision, and what led to it. To quote...
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Adventures With document.documentElement.firstChild
Here’s an interesting DOM test-case I ran across inadvertently yesterday. For the purpose of this post assume the following markup: < !DOCTYPE html> <html> <!-- i broke the dom -->...
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Opera Mini Approved For iPhone
I’ve yet to actually try it myself, but Opera Mini was approved today for the iPhone. While this is the first non-WebKit browser “on” the iPhone, it’s worth noting that the rendering engine isn’t...
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WebM
In August 2009 after the On2 announcement, I suggested that Google might open source a codec in hopes of derailing OGG which it feels is inferior as well as h.264 which is patent-encumbered. Google...
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Protecting Photo Privacy Via Browsers
Browsers can do more to protect users from inadvertently violating their own privacy. The NY Times today had an article about a topic that has been discussed in various circles several times now. The...
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Full SPDY Ahead
For those not keeping score, Twitter, and Facebook have both come out publicly in favor of SPDY. Twitter is already using it in production. It sounds like Facebook will be soon. Mozilla implemented it...
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