22 days ago
deusx : Microsoft Internet Explorer users told to switch browsers over 'zero-day' flaw | Technology | guardian.co.uk - "Microsoft is trying to put together a patch, but in the meantime computer users have been advised to update their security settings or switch to unaffected browsers such as Firefox or Opera. ... The flaw in IE allows criminals to gain control of com
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deusx : Apple - Support - Discussions - Clipboard being taken over through ... - The girl ran into this one tonight. Weird. Some popup or tab has a Flash movie embedded that repeatedly refreshes the clipboard with a nasty URL. "This has happened to me twice now, on two separate computers at work. My clipboard has been hijacked
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Simon Willison : Internet explorer mystery #1376 - Internet explorer mystery #1376. IE executes function definitions inside an “if (0)” block. That frightens me.
deusx : Ned Batchelder: Internet explorer mystery #1376 - "In IE, the redefinition of really() is interpreted and used even though it is inside a block of code that is not executed. Wonder of wonders..."
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Anil : A Pre-History of the Google Browser - Today, in a surprisingly botched announcement, Google announced Chrome, their upcoming open source web browser. The subject of a Google browser is something I've opined on a few times over the years, but Jason Kottke's compiled an even more comprehensive
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wearehugh : The WHATWG Blog » Blog Archive » The Road to HTML 5 - Episode 1: the section element
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deusx : No Opera Mini for the iPhone | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com - Yikes. This is really making me hope that Android or Palm linux phones grow up fast. "It seems that the engineers at Opera developed a version of Opera Mini that would run on the iPhone (and the iPod touch), but this browser will never see light of
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jonhicks : Cruz - A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard - One to keep an eye on! A WebKit browser with a proper plugin architecture - no InputManagers
joshua : Cruz - A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard - from the maker of fluid
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Richard Rutter : Firefox 3.1 beta supports font embedding - TrueType and OpenType. Sweeeeeeet!.
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jonhicks : Choosy - A smarter default browser for Mac OS X - Choose what you open links in each time - ideal for browser polygamists!
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Simon Willison : Conditional classnames - Conditional classnames. Yahoo!’s internal coding standards still recommend CSS hacks over conditional comments because a separate stylesheet for IE imposes an additional HTTP request. Paul Hammond points out that you can use conditional comments to wr
Eric Meyer : Conditional classnames - True 'nough.
deusx : paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames - "If you use this HTML: <!--[if IE ]> <body class="ie"> <![endif]--> <!--[if !IE]>--> <body> <!--<![endif]--> with CSS that looks something like: div.foo { color: inherit; } .ie div.foo {
philgyford : Paulhammond.org: Conditional classnames - An easy way to apply Internet Explorer CSS hacks. So simple that, in retrospect, it's hard to believe no one's thought of it before. Smashing.
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3 month ago
Richard Rutter : Hicks joins Opera - Finally a decent Opera/Mac interface may be on the way….
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3 month ago
jonhicks : NealGrosskopf.com l CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer
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3 month ago
Andy Baio : Webmonkey on the clickjacking IFRAME exploit - potentially devastating hack and relatively easy to pull off, affecting every browser
Rod Begbie : A Look at the Clickjacking Web Attack and Why You Should Worry - Webmonkey - Good explanation of the newly publicised "clickjacking" browser exploit. Your clicks may not be going where you think they're going. [via] #
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3 month ago
jonhicks : Stainless for OS X Leopard - That'll be another browser for me to try then! Based on the idea of Google Chrome's multi-process it's early experiment. (via Daring Fireball)
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3 month ago
deusx : camera:// - <Glazblog/> - "Future of the Web... Brad Lassey had a really great idea for Fennec, and I think it should hit all browsers, not only mobile browsers. Just allow me to recommend the following: * allow <input type="camera"> and camera:// (or wha
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4 month ago
wearehugh : Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme - so awesome
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4 month ago
Anil : A Pre-History of the Google Browser - Today, in a surprisingly botched announcement, Google announced Chrome, their upcoming open source web browser. The subject of a Google browser is something I've opined on a few times over the years, but Jason Kottke's compiled an even more comprehensive
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4 month ago
gleuschk : WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string - what a hilarious mess (as long as I don't have to deal with it)
Rod Begbie : History of the browser user-agent string - Or how we got from "NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)" to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13" [via] #
François Hodierne : WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string - And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended #
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4 month ago
deusx : A thought on 10 foot browser interfaces - RussellBeattie.com - "you know how more and more sites out there are adopting a m.* mobile version, tailored for smaller screens? Why don't the video sites out there start adopting tv.* versions of their interfaces, tailored to people using the site from their couch
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4 month ago
deusx : Why Google Chrome Will Dominate | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog) - "Chrome is the end of the browser and the beginning of the Cloud Client. These are quite different things. A Cloud Client is a flexible and configurable Interface in which an application can run. Whether the rest of the application is local or lives
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4 month ago
Anil : A Pre-History of the Google Browser - Today, in a surprisingly botched announcement, Google announced Chrome, their upcoming open source web browser. The subject of a Google browser is something I've opined on a few times over the years, but Jason Kottke's compiled an even more comprehensive
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4 month ago
Anil : A Pre-History of the Google Browser - Today, in a surprisingly botched announcement, Google announced Chrome, their upcoming open source web browser. The subject of a Google browser is something I've opined on a few times over the years, but Jason Kottke's compiled an even more comprehensive
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5 month ago
veen : Mozilla leads push to reimagine Web browsers - "As part of the project, Mozilla Labs has teamed up with San Francisco-based Adaptive Path [...] which created a series of concept videos that showcase the potential browser of the future."
deusx : Mozilla leads push to reimagine Web browsers - ""We are trying to make people's interaction with the technology more natural and more physical," said Jesse James Garrett, co-founder and president of Adaptive Path. "Some of these things are right around the corner, and some wil
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5 month ago
jonhicks : Control-Tab: A New Feature for Firefox - Firefox getting all fancy on our ass
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6 month ago
deusx : Ubiquitous Interfaces, Ubiquitous Functionality at Toolness - "Our new project attempts to alleviate all of these problems by allowing end-users to apply textual commands, or verbs, to whatever they’re looking at."
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