A couple of months ago, Opera announced they were dropping Presto in favor of WebKit to allow them to spend their time focusing on the browser rather than the HTML rendering engine within it. This was seen by some people as a loss for web standards as Opera were the major company pushing standards and [...]
and then there were three
Big news in the world of HTML this morning as Opera announce the end of Presto and a move to Webkit for all future products HTML rendering. Leaving the only three major rendering engines Gecko, Webkit and Trident. Mixed views on Twitter this morning, my opinion is its a shame that they feel the need [...]
Page Speed Score [Update]
Back in May last year, I wrote a post about a new Firebug (for Firefox) Plug-in called Page Speed, that allowed you to test the load time of your website and get some useful tips on how to improve this. This week, Google took that idea and extended it into an independent online tool, making [...]
developing for the mobile web
As more and more people start browsing on their mobiles, ensuring our sites work ok on small screens is going to become more important. Here are a few emulators you can use to test your websites look and work ok. http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html http://www.opera.com/mini/demo/ https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=060AD92489947D410D897474079C1477 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/default.aspx http://developer.palm.com/
Firefox 4 Beta has landed
I mentioned last week on Twitter that I had been using the Fx4.0 alpha at home in preparation for the Fx4.0 Test Day (last Friday) and how impressed I was with it. Apart from the extra space saved from removing the title/menu bar the browser felt obviously faster and more stable than previous alpha and [...]