Quick Thoughts On Windows Phone 7
Windows just announced Windows Phone 7 (previously known as Windows Mobile 7). Here’s a video, and after that, some thoughts on the offering.
Musings:
I like how the lock screen is not a slider, but a “cover” you slide upwards.
I’m noticing the Internet Explorer icon, and thinking to myself: Why not rebrand Internet Explorer Mobile as simply [...]
Invoke Google Chrome Frame When Available
Google recently changed the way you harness the power of Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer. Chrome Frame is the plugin which adds Google Chrome as a browser renderer inside Internet Explorer, giving you access to, among other things, HTML5.
Previously, you inserted a simple meta tag. Now you have to send the headers programmatically. [...]
Quick Thoughts On The IE9 PDC Preview
Good old Microsoft still think they have something to offer the web community. Segway: maybe theydo! Internet Explorer 9 is in the works, and if everything goes according to plan, it’ll sport 2D hardware acceleration (faster and more smooth scaling and rendering of fonts and CSS borders and images), CSS3 support (the interviewer seems to [...]
Testing Browsers In 2009: Instant Screenshots
Browsershots has been around for a while, but I’ve always found it a hassle to work with. And so, Geotek Datentechnik’s NetRenderer is a welcome product. It’ll screenshot your website almost instantly. Works remarkably well.
Handle IE8: Use Chrome Frame If Available, Fallback To IE7 [Updated]
Internet Explorer 8 wasn’t a welcome surprise. While the new rendering engine was supposed to be more standards compliant, the CSS engine wasn’t updated similarly, so the net result was it couldn’t render advanced CSS layouts anyway, even if it tried to. The solution was to add a meta tag to tell IE8 to use [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Mini-Review
Internet Explorer 8 is a fairly fast tabbed webbrowser which sports unique features such as a website suggestion service (based on what other sites you’ve visited) and “web accelerators”, glorified shortcuts for common tasks such as blogging or finding maps.
Compared to both Internet Explorer 6 and 7, 8 is an improvement. It is indeed faster, [...]
IE6 & IE7 Inline CSS Hacks
This page details an inline CSS hack for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 on Windows.
The best idea, however, would be to serve a separate stylesheet for each browser you’re hacking to.
Storing it here for my own posterity, these are inline CSS stylesheet hacks for Internet Explorer 6 and 7. Using these, you can add [...]
3rd Place: Opera Sings Out of Tune
Since trying out Opera 9, I’ve been slowly warming towards the browser. It’s really fast, it does most of what I need, and it does it all pretty well. There are some quirks and ifs here and there, but generally it’s rock-solid competition for Firefox.
This got me thinking. Why didn’t I even consider running Opera before? Why is the Opera browser share as low as 1.5%, when the browser is, in fact, more decent than that?
In this entry I’d like to touch upon some design issues, usability issues, interface design decisions and naming issues I personally think could use touch-ups or changes.