Noscope is a bi-weekly journal serving up snacksized portions of pointless stuff since 2001. On a new linode server!
I also do freelance design and usability via dejligt.com

Safari Was The First To Fall [Updated]

    15:36 on March 25, 2010 , , ,

Pwn2Own 2010: Pwn2Own 2010 is under way, and after day one of the annual security showdown the results are darn near an exact replica of last year’s. Safari was the first to fall, followed by Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Firefox on Windows 7 x64 was also taken down, as was the iPhone’s mobile [...]

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Quick Thoughts On Windows Phone 7

    22:07 on February 15, 2010 , , , , , ,

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 [...]

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Invoke Google Chrome Frame When Available

    15:58 on February 11, 2010 , , , , ,

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

    11:24 on November 19, 2009 , , , , , ,

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

    13:50 on November 12, 2009 , , , ,

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]

    11:20 on November 2, 2009 , , , ,

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 [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 Mini-Review

    14:14 on March 20, 2009 , , ,

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 [...]

IE6 & IE7 Inline CSS Hacks

    15:36 on November 20, 2008 , , , ,

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 [...]