Mark Newton
I wrote in my last article about the joys of adding video to an HTM5 web site and the pain that is it to create several file format versions of each video just to satisfy all of the browsers out there. The news has since broken that Mozilla, the team behind Firefox, is proposing to […]
Whilst at Mix08 I heard an enchanting story from the the guy who runs the Internet Explorer team, Dean Hachamovitch, apparently after the launch of a previous version of IE he came home from work one day to be greeted by his young daughter who said ‘ Daddy did YOU break the internet? ‘
I get many emails from readers who are frustrated at the difficulties of implementing AJAX type functionality within their latest web application project. Even sizable companies seem to be avoiding adding AJAX functionality for the time being. When I speak to them about their future developments they all claim that they are ‘looking into AJAX’ […]
Since my last article it has been a busy time in the Web application arena. Google launched their browser; ‘Chrome’ with it’s high performance JavaScript engine called ‘V8’ for those lovers of high performance ‘oily bits’. Having a fast JavaScript engine in your browser will help the performance of any AJAX web application as will […]
Why can’t we just have a single rendering engine I keep asking? The WebKit rendering engine that is used by the Safari browser and a number of other programs including Dreamweaver for its Live View mode is a move in the right direction, but I doubt we will see any attempts at conformity whilst the […]
There have been two main pieces of work that I have recently been involved with, each at opposite ends of the web development spectrum. The first was taking an old site where the layout was built many years ago using tables and converting it to a design using CSS. The other project is an information […]
The media is full of talk of HTML 5 and its capabilities, and whilst it is capable of impressive demonstrations, I have yet to find a great development tool for it. The various browser manufacturers are developing support for various levels of HTML 5 but Microsoft still has a long way to go with IE9 […]
The big news is that IE7 has rolled out, and of course Microsoft does not recommend you try to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine although this is possible by going through some hoops, made all the more easier by Jon Galloway who has written an IE7 installer that will allow this (http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/07/26/IE7-Standalone-_2800_Updated-for-IE7-Beta-3_2900_.aspx) […]
Whilst we are on the subject of web server logs and activity, there is one group of products that is causing some problems with excess bandwidth usage as well as making a web site appear much busier that it actually is. We have all see adverts for ‘speed up your browsing’ products. These often work […]
When I talk of a future browser for web applications, I would like to make a plea to the various browser developers. How about having a basic browser engine, that is open source and free to use that is fully standards compliant? Here I am talking just about the rendering engine, the bit between the […]