Entries Tagged as ‘Web Browsers’

February 5, 2008

Is PHP The Server-Side Equivalent of Internet Explorer?

Let me explain.
Internet Explorer (particularly IE6) is accused of holding back the web. When it was launched in 2001, it was was very advanced and the number of web designers created standards based web sites was negligible so it’s lack of standards compliance wasn’t such an issue.
Since then though, other browsers have raced ahead [...]

February 1, 2008

S3 Fox - Free Fridays #11

Amazon S3 is an online storage service which is blisteringly fast and ridiculously low cost. You can store and transfer Gigabytes of data using their service and you’ll end up with monthly bill in single dollar figures.
It sound greats, and it is, but it is just a service and a bare bones service at that. [...]

January 30, 2008

Safari 3 And WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors

Safari 3 has recently become a first class citizen in the world of WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors. Until recently, the majority of Rich Text Editors didn’t support Safari so if you were using a content management system or blogging software to edit your content online then Safari would usually default to a plain old text [...]

January 26, 2008

How To Change Safari 3 Text Display Settings

I’ve written a few posts about various problems with the Windows version of Safari 3. As a result, a surprisingly large number of the search engine generated visits to this site come from people using terms like “text seems bold in safari” or “safari text problem“.
All Browsers Are Not Created Equally
There seems to be some [...]

January 24, 2008

Does Adobe AIR Matter?

I’ve been putting together an article about why web browsers are so important for publication on another web site and it’s really made me think about the implications of AIR for the web.
The web is all about content, right? And to access the content we need to start somewhere. A search engine, a bookmark, a [...]

January 19, 2008

Adobe AIR Week

Next week is Adobe AIR week here on the BlueClock blog. Starting on Monday the 21st, I’ll be posting a series of articles covering:

A look at some great Adobe AIR apps.
An overview of what Adobe AIR is (and what it isn’t).
Implications for the industry.
A round up of tools and tutorials to help you get started.

So [...]